Quote of the day
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
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)