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A historian should "go on reading (...) until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happened as they did."'London Addresses I', in G.M. Young, Today and Yesterday: Collected Essays and Addresses (London, 1948), p. 112.
— G. M. Young
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About G. M. Young
George Malcolm Young (29 April 1882 – 18 November 1959) was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age (1936).
About G. M. Young
George Malcolm Young (29 April 1882 – 18 November 1959) was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age (1936).
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