The Sense of the Past: Thirteen Studies in the Theory and Practice of History

by C.V. Wedgwood

Genres: History

254 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Dame (Cicely) Veronica Wedgwood OM DBE was an English historian who published under the name C. V. Wedgwood. Specializing in the history of 17th-century England and Continental Europe, her biographies and narrative histories "provided a clear, entertaining middle ground between popular and scholarly works."

Reviews

[Paul Hasbrouck · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant collections of essays on the writing of history, the types of historical research, the great historian Edmund Gibbon, and Wedgewood's subject of expertise-the English Civil War. Still fresh after fifty years, this excellent collection shows the power of supreme historian.