Butterfield and the Whig Interpretation of History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Butterfield and the Whig Interpretation of History

Monday 07 October 2024 is the 124th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Butterfield (07 October 1900 – 20 July 1979), who was born in Oxenhope, England, on this date in 1900.

Butterfield’s book The Whig Interpretation of History changed the way that historians viewed their own profession, since no one wanted to be thought guilty of writing Whiggish history. But Butterfield had greater demands yet upon the historian, who is to embody technical precision at the same time as achieving imaginative sympathy, all without rendering moral judgment. That is a tall order.

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