historian

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Research by the late industrial historian Brian Newman concluded the first was built in 1904 by the Glasgow Crane and Electric Hoist Company for a shipyard in Sunderland.

From BBC

“I appreciate art history as much as anyone else, but I’m not going to pay an art historian a lot of money to put a roof on my house,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The boat's origins have puzzled historians for more than a century.

From Science Daily

Family historian Lady Carla Stanley, who is married to the current Lord Stanley, said they were "free thinking" and born to educated, well-travelled mothers.

From BBC

But even that power requires public cooperation, taking the form of what historian Timothy Snyder, a leading authority on authoritarianism, describes as “anticipatory obedience.”

From Salon