Irwin The truth was, in 1914, Germany doesn't want war. Yeah, there's an arms race, but it's Britain who's leading it. So, why does no one admit this?
Played by Stephen Campbell Moore 
The History Boys (2006) · 17 quotes
The History Boys (2006) · 17 quotes
Tied for 3rd most-quoted character in The History Boys (2006): in 2 of its 17 quotes
A line from IrwinBut this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.
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