'Facts speak only when the historian calls on them," wrote the historian EH Carr in his landmark work, What Is History? "It is he who decides which facts to give the floor and in what order or context. It is the historian who has decided for his own reasons that Caesar's crossing of that petty stream, the Rubicon, is a fact of history, whereas the crossing of the Rubicon by millions of other people before or since interests nobody at all."


Quoted by Gary Younge
on She would not be moved (The Guardian)