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" I used to think of Hackney in a really good light, now it’s too much linked to slavery, too much. And then you’re a descendant of that. It doesn’t sit comfortably. I’m quite disgusted by it. " - Jay Blades

" There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive. " - Elif Batuman

" No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. " - Richard M. Nixon

" Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. " - Philippa Gregory

" Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you. " - Rhiannon Giddens

" You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history. " - Mort Walker

" From 1911 to 1928, the country was officially called Republic of China, but in reality, it was actually split between different warlords. It was one of the liveliest periods in Chinese history. It is therefore quite theatrical, and it is good for making films. " - Jiang Wen

" You cannot not know history. " - Philip Johnson

" The most famous line in gastronomic history, ‘Let them eat cake’, turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa. " - Amanda Foreman

" I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious? " - Ashwin Sanghi