Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
A. L. Rowse
Born: December 4, 1903
Died: October 3, 1997 (aged 93)
Bio: Alfred Leslie Rowse FRHistS, known publicly as A. L. Rowse but to friends and family as Leslie, was a British author and historian from Cornwall, England, UK.
Known for:
- A Cornish Childhood (1942)
- Homosexuals in history (1977)
- Historians I have known (1995)
- The England of Elizabeth (1950)
- The use of history (1946)







