1st Edition

British Historians and National Identity From Hume to Churchill

By Anthony Leon Brundage Copyright 2015

    Two eminent scholars of historiography examine the concept of national identity through the key multi-volume histories of the last two hundred years. Starting with Hume’s History of England (1754–62), they explore the work of British historians whose work had a popular readership and an influence on succeeding generations of British children.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Demythologizing the Nation’s Past: David Hume’s History of England; Chapter 2 Catharine Macaulay’s Vindication of Radicalism and the Republican Tradition; Chapter 3 Reassessing Religion and the National Narrative: John Lingard and the English Reformation; Chapter 4 Placing the Constitution at the Heart of National Identity: Henry Hallam and Constitutional History; Chapter 5 Thomas Babington Macaulay: Writing the History of a Progressive People; Chapter 6 The Glories of the Reformation and the Origins of Empire: J. A. Froude’s Celebration of the Tudor Era; Chapter 7 Edward Augustus Freeman: Liberal Democracy and National Identity; Chapter 8 William Stubbs: The Continuity of English History as National Identity; Chapter 9 Celebrating the People: J. R. Green’s Short History; Chapter 10 Samuel Rawson Gardiner: Incorporating Dissent into the National Story; Chapter 11 In Thrall to English Tradition and Character: G. M. Trevelyan’s Panoramic Histories of the Island Race; Chapter 12 The Anglosphere as Global Model: Winston Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples; conclusion Conclusion;

    Biography

    Anthony Brundage, Richard A. Cosgrove,