OR SHOULD WE SAY: CAN HISTORY BE REPEATED
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Thomas Babington Macaulay: Victorian apostle of high culture
The Daniel Johnson article on “The Decline and Fall of the History Men” linked here in our picks section yesterday deserves additional reflection. Johnson laments the fact that no one writes “big history” in the style of Gibbon, Macaulay, or (more recently) Trevor-Roper. I’m not sure big—or at least grand—history is entirely dead, but one thing is certain:
