The seventeenth century -- The Enlightenment and neo-Whiggism -- The high Victorians Archives and sources The prophets: Carlyle and Buckle The moralists: Froude and Acton -- The professionalization of history The professors and the universities The expanding field of learning -- The fruits of research The Tudors: Creighton to Elton The Stuarts: Gardiner to Trevelyan Tawney and social history Namier and the eighteenth century -- Conclusion History in the twentieth century
