“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.” WorldTryingFirstsWarBigsNextEventsMaterialsEnglandHistoricalMusicalStrikesWar Of The WorldsDocumentariesFirst World WarHistorical Events Author:Trevor Nunn
“I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.” TryingFactsCenturyRight NowEnglandHistoricalLibraryBostonNew EnglandLineageTracing Author:Rick Moody
“It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.” BelieveMayHas BeensBookSchoolUsedFoundLanguageI BelieveWrittenInformationEnglandHistoricalValuableExaggerationSanskrit Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.” CharacterFilmGirlGrowing UpGrowingEnglandHistoricalSlaveLike MeBiracialGirls Growing Up Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.” ApproachTreatsEnglandHistoricalIsraelChinaRussiaFascinated Author:Hershel Shanks
“People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.” PeopleWantPastFictionNovelEnglandHistoricalHistorical Fiction Author:Hilary Mantel
“I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.” ThinkingWritingReasonWholeAmericaYoungLinesKnowingPoetPeriodsCriticismEnglandAgreeHistoricalUniversityPracticalsBackgroundsNot SureFrighteningEmphasisDylanEliotYeats Author:Sylvia Plath
“I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.” ThinkingWorldKindMadeBigsMistakeEnglandHistoricalTerrorist Author:Salman Rushdie
“We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from the King of England, not from the judiciary, not from government at all, but from God. The keystone of our system of popular sovereignty is the recognition, as the Declaration acknowledges, that 'all men are created equal' and 'endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.' Religion and God are no alien to our system of government, they're integral to it.” MenShouldGovernmentRememberCertainRightsKingsEqualEnglandIndependenceHistoricalCreatorRecognitionAliensAcknowledgeDocumentsDeclarationSovereigntyDeclaration Of IndependenceExplicitJudiciaryKeystonesSystems Of GovernmentUnalienable RightsPopular Sovereignty Author:Mark Levin
“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.” PeopleIfsChildrenLyingNumbersHalfLandEnglandHistoricalIsraelTerrorismGermanyLatterCleansingZionistZionismReckoningJewish National Author:David Ben-Gurion
“The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.” WorldShouldBelieveEnglandRelationHistoricalBoundariesBranchesNew WorldCouncilNew World OrderWorld OrderWorld GovernmentNwoOne World GovernmentForeign RelationsNational Sovereignty Author:Carroll Quigley
“If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.” IfsWorldReadingQualityKnowledgeWrittenEnglandHistoricalUndertakings Book:Sybil, Or, The Two Nations Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations