Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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:
- The Practice of History (1967)
- The Tudor revolution in government (1953)
- England Under the Tudors (1955)
- Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 (1963)
- Return to essentials (1991)






