Is There Still Value in ‘Great Man’ History?
How important is the study of the powerful, epoch-defining individual?
Big Beasts are especially good at changing a general mood in society
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford University and author of Thomas Cromwell: a Life (Allen Lane, 2018)
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