Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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)