Отсутствие исторического чувства есть наследственный недостаток всех философов. – Ф. Ницше You may be able to convince me that I am wrong, but you cannot tell me that I am wrong without convinci...
Many a man falls as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher....
Back in 2006, when I wrote Tudors, Me, and an Elusive Ghost, I explained why I chose to specialise in 16th c. history, or even more narrowly, in Tudor history: I chose to specialise in Tudor history b...
I pondered a lot on the problem I have with identifying myself or other people in one way or another. The generic “identity-search”, to which we are so often subjected these days, is usual...
I’ve been reading A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. It is an interesting book. It is easy to see why it was written; why it was written in such form and way; the content is much expla...