Ian Mortimer (historian) Quote

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.


The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (ed. Random House, 2012) - ISBN: 9781409029564


Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we...

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we...

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we...

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we...