• I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?

  Source: A Personal History (1983) p. 301

  A. J. P. Taylor
  British historian
  

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1. narrative
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5. question
6. happened

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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next? by : A. J. P. Taylor

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