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Dec 9th 2016, 10:58 am

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A Place to Visit

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Posted By Editha

Re: A Place to Visit

Clearly you haven't read the whig historians.

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Dec 8th 2016, 10:15 am

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A Place to Visit

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Posted By Editha

Re: A Place to Visit

I beg your pardon. Oh well, he was around long enough to have had a drink with E.P. Thompson and Christopher Hill.

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Dec 8th 2016, 9:05 am

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A Place to Visit

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Posted By Editha

Re: A Place to Visit

G.M. Trevelyan is regarded as the last great historian of the Whig tradition. He died in 1903. His life of Garibaldi, and his three volume social history of England are still worth reading.

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Dec 6th 2016, 10:17 pm

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Posted By Editha

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Robin, if your teachers were Marxists, then surely they must have challenged the Whig view of history? Or they wouldn't have been Marxists, would they?

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Dec 6th 2016, 7:07 am

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A Place to Visit

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Posted By Editha

Re: A Place to Visit

It is many decades since I visited Culloden, but my experience then was similar to yours.

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