That is the gist of some virtuoso invective by Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British historian who died in 2003.
In 1834, Thomas Babington Macaulay, the British historian and statesman, arrived in Madras.
Nicholas Campion, a British historian and astrologer, has expanded on Mr Cohn's ideas.
Kaplan means to rehabilitate the sort of geography associated with certain Victorian and Edwardian scholars, especially the British historian Halford J.
David Littman is a British historian and widely venerated human rights activist who has represented several NGOs at the United Nations in Geneva.
Like most foreign visitors who experience Italy's culture, buildings, physical beauty, food and climate, Mr Gilmour, a British historian and journalist, is a passionate fan.
John Laughland, a British historian at the pro-Kremlin Institute for Democracy and Co-operation in Paris, argued on the Russia Today channel that politicians make bad historians.
What Tocqueville said and did, however, is not necessarily what modern followers would always want him to have done, as Mr Brogan, a British historian of America, makes clear.
Questions like those are at the heart of a new book by Timothy Garton Ash, a British historian of Eastern Europe, describing a nine-month stay during 1980 in what was then East Berlin.
According to British historian Cecil Roth's "The History of the Marranos, " the anagram was a cryptic substitute for the Kaddish, a prayer recited in the synagogue by mourners after the death of a close relative.
The British historian Andrew Roberts, whom I ran into on the beaches of Normandy on the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day, told me that something like 95 per cent of the allied troops who died that day were English-speaking.
De Gaulle's vision of Franco-German reconciliation, of the building of a new European order with France and Germany as its centre of gravity, ended - according to one British historian - a historic enmity created by the division of Charlemagne's empire in the ninth century.
Mark Mazower, a British historian at Columbia University, New York, presents his work as a stocktaking: a chance, just as the West is seeing power shift to emerging giants in the East, to ponder how Europeans and Americans crafted the present web of international institutions, from the UN to the World Bank or International Monetary Fund.
British financial historian Niall Ferguson breezed through the TED Global conference this morning.
When Patrick Kinross, a British diplomat and historian, wrote his life of Ataturk in 1964, he accepted this mythology without question.
But Martin Evans, a British academic, is too good an historian to present a one-sided story of Algeria's quest for independence.
This intriguing book, written by a literature professor turned military historian, tells how the British and French convinced themselves during World War I that they were doing just fine on the battlefields.
The historian Eric Hobsbawm famously claimed that British traditions "which appear or claim to be old are often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented".
Such changes have impoverished British education, argues Niall Ferguson, a Scottish historian who teaches at Harvard University.
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The Bells were very rich: but it was not money that got Gertrude a First at Oxford, or helped her survive encounters with murderous tribes in the desert, or made her a spy or a major in the British army, or qualified her as poet, scholar, historian, mountaineer, photographer, archaeologist, gardener, cartographer, linguist, and distinguished servant of the state.
In a similar development, a historian in London David Irving on Tuesday lost his long-running libel battle in the British court to defend his views on Nazi Germany.
All take succour from recent, generally favourable reassessments of the British empire, notably the one offered in a book (and television series) by Niall Ferguson, a Scottish historian now at New York University.
Patrick Salmon, the Foreign Office historian who compiled the volume of papers published on Friday as German Unification 1989-1990: Documents on British Policy Overseas Section III Volume VII, says Mrs Thatcher's trenchant objections made little practical difference.
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