Making History: Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics

'History is past politics, politics is present history.' Thus observed Edward August Freeman, 19th-century historian and public intellectual. He was an idiosyncratic and imaginative thinker who saw past and present as interwoven and had a way of collapsing barriers of time - a gift for making the reader feel part of history, rather than merely its student.

Freeman's interests ranged widely beyond history, however, and this volume provides a biographical as well as intellectual survey of his...