Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.