'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? -... →
Alison Weir
History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.
I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived... →
In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I... →
When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There... →
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
Adam Weishaupt
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and... →
Ai Weiwei
I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.
Peter Weller
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is... →
Julius Wellhausen
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of... →