“Perhaps, in the future, there will be some African history to teach. But at present there is none... there is only the history of the Europeans in Africa. The rest is darkness... and darkness is not a subject of history.”

About Hugh Trevor-Roper

Historian • English

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, was an influential and often controversial English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. He was known for his elegant prose and his work as a wartime intelligence...