"Namier was blessed, or cursed, by an enormous weight of temperament."
— Lewis Namier

January 1, 1970

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J. H. Plumb, 'The Atomic Historian', New Statesman (1 August 1969), quoted in John Kenyon, The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance (1983; rev. edn. 1993), p. 270