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‘Those who can do; those who can’t, teach.’ There is something in the popular saying, especially where historians are concerned. Really distinguished historians do not waste time discussing how to write history, or giving away the secrets of their art or craft: they get on with the job. They leave it to the not so good at it to discuss how it should be done.
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© 1979 A. L. Rowse
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Rowse, A.L. (1979). Attitudes to History. In: Portraits and Views. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04901-1_13
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