gracie3 
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She was a historical novelist, Jean Plaidy,she got me interested in history ..
Reply #1. Mar 18 11, 9:43 AM
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| trojan11
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Plutarch started me off. Easy to read and understand for a small child (many years ago now). Thucydides caught my undivided attention at fourteen years of age; and then, Edward Gibbon. If I had to choose a number one, then, for me, it would be Gibbon.
Reply #2. Mar 21 11, 7:15 PM
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evil44
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Me
Reply #3. Apr 07 11, 11:15 AM
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mjws1968
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Herodotus and his Histories got me interested in the Ancient World. I mean, his stuff contains inaccuracies and anachronisms, but it is much more inspiring than the more accurate but dry words of Thucydides. Also Plutarch's Parallel Lives, not an easy read, especially in the original, but it tells us a lot about the Ancient Greeks and Romans from the way they saw their heroes.
Reply #4. Apr 08 11, 3:59 PM
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| Cymruambyth
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It depends on the area of study. My love of history was nirtured by my history-buff father, and when I was a kid I read Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, and Polydore Vergil, and couldn't wait to get my hands on books by Geoffrey Trease.
Nowadays, I'm fond of Macaulay, David Starkey (who can be overbearingly pompous at times, bit is very sound), Kenneth Clarke, Barbara Tuchman, A.L. Rowse, Gwyn Jones, Canadians Pierre Berton, Michael Ignatieff (who also happens to be the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada) amd Peter C. Newman.
Reply #5. Apr 28 11, 11:37 PM
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| Elizann
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Couldn't choose between Ellis Peters or Sharon Penman for historical fiction. Non-fiction has to be Hendrik van Loon's "Story of Mankind" I guess this dates me!
Reply #6. May 10 11, 3:29 PM
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boxjaw
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You're overrated evil44. You still haven't fixed your firewall problem.
Reply #7. May 11 11, 1:46 AM
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evil44
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Highly inappropriate boxjaw. I hope the editors remove your crass post (and then this one afterwards).
Reply #8. May 11 11, 10:37 AM
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| mountaingoat
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Shelby Foote (RIP) got me interested in the American civil war.
Reply #9. Oct 09 11, 9:45 PM
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wycat
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Another vote for Shelby Foote, also Bruce Catton both so knowledgable and articulate about the Civil War,
would have loved to have met them.
Reply #10. Oct 11 11, 4:49 PM
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| BOB501
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I still like Mr Peabody from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Reply #11. Oct 11 11, 5:30 PM
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| b_honcho
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That would be Barbara Tuchman. Her book "A Distant Mirror", for me, was like reading a novel. She made the history of the Black Death, in 14th century Europe, come alive.
Reply #12. Nov 22 11, 6:47 PM
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jolana
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Andre Maurois. I think, he is not a historian, but his History of England and France are understandable for everyone.
Reply #13. Nov 22 11, 7:38 PM
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paulmallon
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Doris Kerns Goodwin
Reply #14. Feb 28 12, 10:36 AM
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REDVIKING57
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Bettany Hughes.
Reply #15. Feb 28 12, 5:55 PM
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Mommakat
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Actually Gracie3 Jean Plaidy was recognised as the most historically correct of all the authors. Her books were great and I read them all. She also wrote under two other names, Victoria Holt - romantic novels - and the wonderful Daughter of England series under the name of Phillipa Carr. Read all 17 of them and again they gave a great insight into the history of England and the lives of the people.
Reply #16. Feb 28 12, 6:30 PM
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wdstk
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David McCullough and Michael Wood
Reply #17. Feb 28 12, 6:53 PM
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| mikeeagle1
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I enjoy reading David McCullough's books.
Reply #18. Mar 19 12, 11:00 AM
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sooz888
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I'm not sure what constitutes a 'historian?' Diarists Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn and Parson Francis Kilvert would not have considered themselves historians but they all left a wonderful legacy of historical source material.
Reply #19. Mar 09 13, 6:21 AM
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jabb5076
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I also enjoy David McCullough's books--very readable as opposed to dry and excessively scholarly.
Reply #20. Mar 09 13, 7:30 AM
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