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the_lady_lily ([personal profile] the_lady_lily) wrote2009-09-28 09:10 pm
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History as she used to be done

Women have their uses for historians. They offer relief from warfare, legislation, and the history of ideas; and they enrich the central theme of social history, if and when enough evidence is available.

Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, page 168.

[identity profile] the-lady-lily.livejournal.com 2009-09-30 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, but he is a bio-chemist, not an historian.

[identity profile] friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com 2009-09-30 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I agree, I was just observing that this attitude has hardly disappeared from academia...