I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.
As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
We need to read history from the source.
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.
The student is to read history actively and not passively.
'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.
I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.
