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The History of England to 1689 by Clayton Roberts

Introduction

For many years , historians have argued among themselves on how history ought to be seen and studied . There is a lot who consider that the fact concerning history is that history does not narrate accurately . There are also those who disagree to such a view- including Clayton Roberts the author of The History of England

p Clayton Roberts published his writings at the time wherein the prevailing thought was that history is nothing but a reenactment of past thoughts in a historian 's mind (Collingwood 282 . His works rather stood out because in these , not only does he boldly assert that history tells truth , but even explains past events causally (qtd . In PSU Press 1 . His belief was that , historical exploration is not hopelessly immanent , not irremediably comparative and that every man is not his own historian . The objectivity of history lies in the fact that historians widely agree upon the validity of these canons of evidence and rules of logic (Roberts x-xi . For Roberts then , history is not merely a of a sequence of events rather these events are causally linked together in an ly fashion , as if following a certain rule or law (George and Bennett 225

Such a view of history of his is very much evident in his work , The History...

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