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Quotes from Presidential Address: The Historian's Social Function — Geoffrey Elton

1921–1994 Germany

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In history there are no authorities: history is a free study in which no man can claim rule, or credence for his mere ipse dixit, and in which the only true sin is to deny a hearing to views with which one happens to disagree.

Presidential Address: The Historian's Social Function (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Geoffrey Elton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.