... discusses what is wrong with Whig history and why it is wrong to distort the past. The author’s views are compared with those of noted historians of economics. This discussion provides motivation for the second half of the paper, which focuses on Whiggish accounts of the scientifically progressive character...

... interpretation of history Barker Rodney Bragg Billy constitutionalism Macauley Lord decentralisation Wicks Elizabeth Scotland Act 1998 Trench Alan Fried Charles Rifkind Sir Malcolm Providence Whig history Empire character religion On 19 February 1938, Raymond Chandler ( 2007 : 7) began his...

...This section discusses the necessary ingredients of Whig history—the great new ideas represented by the thought of John Maynard Keynes, the Cambridge economist and prophet of managed capitalism; the villains who are the contemporary defenders of neo-classical orthodoxy within the Treasury, much...

...Once upon a time, we knew when the Restoration ended—in 1688, when the ‘Glorious’ Revolution swept away the revanchist phase of the later Stuart monarchy in an epochal moment of emancipation and enlightenment—but now that ‘Whig history’ is bunk we’re not so sure. 1667, 1681, 1685, 1700, 1714...

... theory Catholic Church two spheres puzzle of pluralism Western Christian culture secularization secularization thesis liberal toleration cultural difference Whig history Rawls Löwith Blumenberg Charles Taylor Balagangadhara What enabled Europe to escape from an era of state persecution...

...-storytellers and historians to think critically about the effects of the stories they tell. Einstein Albert Institute for Advanced Study IAS Kuhn Thomas S Morris Errol Princeton University Maxwell James Clerk storytelling Weinberg Steven Whig histories Butterfield Herbert The Whig Interpretation...

... of Commons monarchy Morrill John parliamentarians Parliament English procedure Russell Conrad Sharpe Kevin unanimity votes whig history English Revolution executions Levellers New Model Army regicide soldiers elections selections Charles I division political humanness archives martyr...

...The Introduction begins by setting the historiographical scene. It shows how ‘Whig’ history presented parliament as a cowed and quiescent assembly, marginalized under the ‘new monarchy’ of Edward IV and Henry VII. Discussing more recent interpretations, the Introduction explains why the reign's...

... Protestantism Whig history divine right of kings Figgis J N Gladstone W E Stubbs William Trevelyan G O Burrow John Hume David Lingard John medievalism Tractarianism Anglo Catholicism Erastianism Glorious Revolution Gooch G P Green J R ‘Oxford School’ of historians Teutonism Church of England...

... Inquisition James I King of England James VI of Scotland Jews Locke John Medieval Spain Mennonites Muslims nation state Nederman Cary J Patterson Annabel Protestantism Reformation religion Socinianism Spain Stevens Paul United Provinces USA Whig history absolutism anti‐trinitarianism...

... of Blair T Brown G Crossman R H S May T Thatcher M Truss L Wright A Walter Bagehot William Blackstone Norman Yoke Whig history A. V. Dicey parliamentary conventions C4P1 The most distinctive features of the British constitution are its arrangements for parliamentary government. Britain made...

... Heinlein Robert A Huxley Aldous Le Guin Ursula K Malthusian history science fiction as guide for politicians steamboat time Vance Jack Whig history Malthus Argumentative tension Time travel This piece started off as a 45-minute talk at the 1972 Novacon in Birmingham. In later years I became...

... Revolution Covenanters Irish rising Confederate Ireland revisionism Whig history Marxist history state formation political culture Since the 1970s there has been a sustained reaction against progressive accounts of the English Revolution that were broadly characterized by ‘revisionist...

... period across the twentieth century. It discusses a very wide range of scholars, from F. W. Maitland to Arnold Toynbee to Lewis Namier to E. P. Thompson to James Vernon. It touches on changing attitudes towards ‘Whig’ history, on competing conceptions of history as a ‘science...