Quote of the day
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
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)






