I'm a historian.

Professor Suzuki is an expert historian.

Well, I became a tapestry historian.

I subsequently became a professional art historian.

Man has no nature, from the historian

I am no historian, ladies and gentlemen.

Polybius was a Greek historian born in 200 BC.

He's a historian. He's now studying the structure of war.

Maybe I should become an historian, or maybe a reporter.

For years I've been feeling frustrated, because as a religious historian,

But according to a really great science historian you might know,

So I suggested this to an historian of science, and he said,

The Greek historian Xenophon wrote his book Cyropaedia promoting Cyrus as the great ruler.

Now, a historian tells me it's even more difficult to predict about the past.

You know, there's a very interesting passage in a book by Paul Cohen, the American historian.

A few years ago, historian Arnold Toynbee said that the world was suffering a huge spiritual crisis.

The role of the historian is less to discover and catalog documents than to interpret and explain them.

The historian Thomas Carlyle considered Muhammad one of the world's greatest heroes, yet even he called the Koran

Don't you find anything significant at all in today's situation in Russia that would strike a future historian?

Similarly, in the Arab world, there was what the great Arab historian Albert Hourani defines as the Liberal Age.

I'm a little bit of an amateur historian, so I've spent some time going back, trying to see the first mention of this kind of thing.

For example, the great Oxford historian who taught here at this university, A.J.P. Taylor, defined a great power as a country able to prevail in war.

Thucydides, the great historian of the the Peloponnesian War, said it was the rise in the power of Athens and the fear it created in Sparta.

The steam engine and the other associated technologies of the Industrial Revolution changed the world and influenced human history so much, that in the words of the historian Ian Morris,

like 'Ask a Historian', or 'Ask Science', where you can ask people who are in these fields a wide range of questions, from very serious ones to very silly ones.

But I'm an historian by training, so I have this terrible tendency to try and put things in context, to try and look at how things happen, the antithesis that give rise to the present.

And these represent the first game equipment designed by human beings, and if you're familiar with the work of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, you might know this history, which is the history of who invented games and why.

I'm a historian by training, and what I study in that case is the way that people have dealt with anatomy meaning human bodies, animal bodies how they dealt with bodily fluids, concepts of bodies how have they thought about bodies.