SHANE NAGLE Bloomsbury £91.80 ISBN 9781474263764 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell In 1954 the Cambridge historian Herbert Butterfield inaugurated the Wiles lecture series at Queen’s University, Belfast. In his opening address, titled‘The history of historiography’, he argued that German historians had much to answer for: ‘In their function of eliciting or discerning the essential traditions of ... Read more
