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When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill — whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.

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Geoffrey Elton

Geoffrey Elton

Born: August 17, 1921
Died: December 3, 1994 (aged 73)
Bio: Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He taught at Clare College, Cambridge and was the Regius Professor of Modern History there from 1983 to 1988.
Known for:
  1. The Practice of History (1967)
  2. The Tudor revolution in government (1953)
  3. England Under the Tudors (1955)
  4. Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 (1963)
  5. Return to essentials (1991)

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