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Manuscripts/MS Butterfield contains:
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139 Historiography
140 Gifford lectures
141 History of historiography - new notes March 1969
142 History of historiography - Miscell. 1975
143 History of historiography
144 History of historiography
145 Early Christian historiography
146 History of the historiography of the French Revolution
147 Chinese historiography - materials from Hong Kong
148 Contemporary German historiography
149 Resignation of Walpole, 1717
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Sir Herbert Butterfield: Papers

Title History of historiography
Reference MS Butterfield 144
Covering Dates 1950–1970 (Circa)
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Further details in a typescript handlist available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.

Manuscripts/MS Butterfield 144 contains:
1 Paper beginning `I thought that, having met the theory of the balance of power so often as a general historian, I might be allowed to present some unprofessional reflections on the history of the theory....'.
14pp.
2 Lecture beginning `In my previous lectures I have tried to show amongst other things the power and the range of the various factors which made Western civilisation so much more historically-minded...'. Incomplete draft in Butterfield's hand. No date.
23 sheets.
3 Writing beginning `The historians of G"ttingen, when, at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century,...'. Draft in Butterfield's hand. No date.
2 sheets.
4 Notes in Butterfield's hand concerning the history of historiography and related topics, some taken from printed sources. No date, 17 sheets. Items in English and French. With 9 British Museum picture-postcards of artefacts from ancient civilisations.

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