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J. H. Plumb Biography

Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb, FBA (20 August 1911 – 21 October 2001) was a British historian, known for his books on British 18th century history. He wrote over thirty books.

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History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

Educational, History, Modest, Purpose

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

Authority, Handmaid, History, Past

Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are becoming a numerate society: almost instinctively there seems now to be a greater degree of truth in evidence expressed numerically than in any literary evidence, no matter how shaky the statistical evidence, or acute the observing eye.

Becoming, Degree, Eye, Quantification, Science, Truth

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