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5 days ago · Butterfield, Sir Herbert. 1900-1979. Historian, born on 7 October 1900 at Oxenhope, Yorks. He abandoned ideas of entering the Methodist ministry in favour of an academic career, but served as a local preacher until 1936. He was educated at Cambridge, where he became Fellow (1923-1955) and Master (1955-1968) of Peterhouse.
22 hours ago · Just this preoccupation with rupture underpinned Alexander Koyré’s and Herbert Butterfield’s original desire to label the changes they observed in European scholarship, between the 16th and 18th centuries, a “scientific revolution.” 18 For most of the 20th century, in fact, you could not train as a historian of science—or have an eminent role within its different societies—without mastering this crucial period or the subjects defined at its core: astronomy, physics, mathematics ...
Jun 25, 2024 · That such structural analysis seemed to be all that was being written under Namier's aegis led to the complaint that he had 'taken the mind out of history', and Sir Herbert Butterfield launched a famous historical controversy of the 1950s by accusing Namier and his alleged 'school' of removing the ideological content from political history.
Jun 20, 2024 · Butterfield apparently maintained his papers in rough order during his life. At the commencement of the compilation of this catalogue, the papers were found to be grouped in a succession of...
Jun 13, 2024 · Historian Herbert Butterfield, who coined the term “Whig history” in a 1931 polemic, summarised the problem thus: “it studies the past with reference to the present”, towards a goal of delivering “drama and apparent moral clarity”.
6 days ago · Jeff Chandler stars in a Richard-George Pedicini story about Tong rivalry in San Francisco. There are tensions among the Tong factions of San Francisco over a wedding of young people. Each of their families are warring factions of two rival groups.
