G. M. Young

"Of historic method, indeed, nothing wiser has ever been said than a word which will be found in Gibbon's youthful Essay on the Study of Literature. Facts, the young sage instructs us, are of three kin…"

"The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another."

"A historian should "go on reading until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happened as they did."

"A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults."

"Portraits of G. M. Young at the UK National Portrait Gallery"

"To attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious newspaper and put money in the savings bank, was in 1840 as good an ideal as could be set before a man. To pursue it gave him r…"

"Archives relating to G. M. Young"

"To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy."