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Monday, 11 March 2013

History is not merely what happened

History is not merely what happened: it is what happened in the context of what might have happened,

Hugh Trevor-Roper, quoted in J. Adamson, 'England without Cromwell: What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War?', N. Ferguson (ed.), Virtual History (1997), 95