Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Quotes

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Valerie Pearl, Blair Worden (1981). “History & imagination: essays in honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper”, Duckworth Publishing
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1966). “Historical essays”