91. After a two-year stint in Greece as British Council representative, he returned to the academic world, lecturing widely and writing medieval history. 92. As already acknowledged, history is also written by winners. 93. But what interests me about the whole farrago is what import this might all have for writing the history of South Africa. 94. By comparing archaean genes to yeast, bacterial and even human genes, researchers hope to write a history of evolution from beginning to present. 95. History is written by the victors. 96. I was just about to sign a contract with HarperCollins to write a history of Amnesty International when the storm broke. 97. In a way, it is God himself who writes history by entering into it. 98. In fact, it was Syed Nahar who raised the idea for Augustin to write the history of Kedah. 99. She has two teen-age stepsons by her marriage to an attorney who is an expert in sporting firearms law and is writing a history of the London gun trade. 100. The myth, an allegory of modern Hong Kong, is intended to challenge the assumption that history is written by elites. |