The progress of history is ever moving forward, away from superstition and autocracy towards free-thought and greater liberty, at least that what Lord Macaulay believed. In his The History of England (from the Accession of James the Second), Macaulay brings forth “the Whig interpretation of history...
Not the worst of it's kind but there were parts that just dragged. This is a selection of essays about the invention of tradition, largely in the 19th Century. Starts with an introduction by Eric Hobsbawm which is pretty dry. The enthusiasm that Hugh Trevor-Roper has for his topic of Highland Trad...
Amazing and gorgeous images but the history is DENSE. You have to be really passionate about this time period in European history to get through this. I did really enjoyed the more mundane chapters about what every day life was like in this time period, but I really could not get into the intense de...
A mixed bunch of studies which seemed to get less and less penetrable as you go on.
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