/his/ approved hsitorians ? I really like Richard overy. Just

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Will Durant

>>2631047
>Richard Ovary
Mine so far is Peter Brown

John Green. Knowledgeable guy who displays wittiness, charisma, humor, and great delivery of content.

>>2631159
Get off my board and never return. You should be ashamed of what you just wrote.

>>2631172
anon maybe you should

>>2631047
i like noam chomsky, niall fergusson, edward carr.

huxleys fucking cool too but hes more a futurist as a counter balance to ideas, with that, & Jacque Fresco

hobsbawm a bomb

Herodotus, Livy, Strabo, Polybius, Lindybeige

>>2631569
>One of these things is not like the other
kek

>>2631282
niall "medicine made europe conquer everything" fergusson

>>2631159
This, the guy gets a lot of unfair hate around here. But he's good.

>>2631579
>>One of these things is not like the other
Livy? He's the Roman in the batch.

>>2631159
The youtube guy ?

>>2631282
Chomsky isn't a historian, he's a linguist with opinions.

Christopher Clark
Richard Evans
Robert Service
Geoffry Elton
L.C.B. Seaman

>>2631569
What about Thucydides? I'd say he's a better historian than Herodotus

>>2632380
also A.J.P. Taylor

Donald Kagan

>>2631579
Actually, those are all huge Liars

me desu

For those of you who are not professional historians (or on their way to be): how many non-fiction history books do you guys read a year, more or less?

>>2632387
>2017
>Liking an historian that pretends that his view of history is the only possible way of interpretation

Wew lad

>>2632507
are you by any chance a postmodernist charlatan?

>>2632533
Go and read the way he presents Pericle's speech after the first year of the Archidamian war

>>2632380
>Geoffry Elton
what have you read by him. didn't he write tons of long books on tudor england?

>>2632752
Currently reading his work on the Reformation, and I also own his "The Practice of History", though I haven't read it yet.