A Quote by Damian Lewis

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

Damian Lewis

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Creating Hall History Novels Rereading Telling Which Wolf

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Damian Lewis
English - Actor
Born: February 11, 1971

I wouldn't dream of commenting on Hilary Mantel as a novelist, frankly I'd be grateful if she stayed off my patch as a historian. She is intelligent, she is bright, she is an admirable writer. I happen to find her Tudor novels unreadable, but that's because I am a Tudor historian.

David Starkey

Most of the version of Tudor history we know is through the eyes of Henry VIII.

Charlotte Hope

The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

I love all history because it’s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.

Natalie

I'm a bit of a history goon, and I love all that. Anything that's medieval-based up until, probably, the Tudor period and just after, I'm quite into.

Greg Rutherford

We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]

Jean Plaidy

With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.

Steven Spielberg

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.

Edward Rutherfurd

I am fascinated by Tudor times.

Paul Hollywood

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

Sharon Horgan

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what's generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

H. W. Brands

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

Charlotte Smith

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

Lucy Worsley

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

Ilka Chase

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.