History as she used to be done

[the_lady_lily]

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.

Comments

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Ah, but he is a bio-chemist, not an historian.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree, I was just observing that this attitude has hardly disappeared from academia...