All history is contemporary history who said this

The practice of conceptual history:

Historians write in the context of their own time, and with due regard to the current dominant ideas of how to interpret the past, and sometimes write to provide lessons for their own society.
In the words of Benedetto Croce, "All history is contemporary history".

The concept of history plays a fundamental role in human thought.
It invokes notions of human agency, change, the role of material circumstances in human affairs, and the putative meaning of historical events.
It raises the possibility of “learning from history.” .