#mrs lintott

[turtle-ier]

Lads, ladettes and thads, I present to you ‘Which The History Boys character are you?’ 

It’s a quiz which I spent far too long on. Please enjoy and tag what you got! 

[subjunctivehistories]

Dorothy Lintott is a lesbian no I do not accept criticism

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[llivingnextdoortoalice]

[historyboysnet]

History Boys as bill wurtz quotes

Dakin:

Scripps:

Posner:

Rudge:

Akthar:

Crowther:

Lockwood:

Timms:

Bonus: Totty:

Hector and Irwin:

Fiona:

Felix:

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[schlechterwolf]

I hesitate to mention this, lest it occasion a sophisticated groan, but it may not have crossed your minds that one of the dons who interviews you may be a woman. I'm reluctant at this stage in the game to expose you to new ideas, but having taught you all history on a strictly non-gender-orientated basis I just wonder whether it occurs to any of you how dispiriting this can be? Can you, for a moment, imagine how dispiriting it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude? Why do you think there are no women historians on TV? I'll tell you why there are no women historians on TV, it's because they don't get carried away for a start, and they don't come bouncing up to you with every new historical notion they've come up with ... the bow-wow school of history. History's not such a frolic for women as it is for men. Why should it be? They never get round the conference table. In 1919, for instance, they just arranged the flowers then gracefully retired. History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. And I'm not asking you to espouse this point of view but the occasional nod in its direction can do you no harm.

Mrs Lintott, The History Boys

[brokenhouseshack]

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

Alan Bennett, "The History Boys"