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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

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F. M. Powicke

F. M. Powicke

Born: June 16, 1879
Died: May 19, 1963 (aged 83)
Bio: Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Belfast and Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at Oxford. He was knighted in 1946.
Known for:
  1. The thirteenth century, 1216-1307 (1953)
  2. Handbook of British chronology (1939)
  3. The Loss of Normandy (1913)

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