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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke (1879–1963) was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Queen's University, Belfast and Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at the University of Oxford. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1946.
Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.
Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.