E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest (1935)
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The historian must have...some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.
— Historian
What It Means
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About Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.
About Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.
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