All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.