The advanced academics, but I don’t mind because no one could possibly persuade Is not every historian’s, I may say-indeed, it is rather looked down on now by Scholars because he knew that when you write for the public you have to be clear and you have to be interesting and these are the twoĬriteria which make for good writing.” As for her critics, she uses the tart retort for which she is “stressed writing for the general reader as opposed to writing just for fellow “scholarly history is written in terms of ideas rather than acts.” She cites no less an authority than George Macaulay Trevelyan, distinguished professor of modern history at Cambridge, who Never, she tells us, did she want to write
Lacks credentials to be an historian and is instead, simply a writer.
She is calloused against charges that she The late historian Barbara Tuchman makes a convincing caseįor what she calls factual storytelling over academic writing.
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