Author: Wedgwood, C. V. (Cicely Veronica) [1910-1997]
Title: Truth and Opinion: Historical Essays
Description: London, Collins, 1960. orig.cloth. 21x14cm, 254 pp. Some pencilled underlinings. Some pencilled notes to flyleaves.. Rubbed. Front cover edges browned. Good. ¶ Contents: Art, Truth & History: The Sense ofthe Past; Principles & Perspec tives; Niccolo Machiavelli; Literature & the Historian; Art, Truth & History; History & Imagination; Edward Gibbon; 17th-Century Sketches: The Last Masque; Scots & English 1603-40; The Causes of the Civil War; Social Comedy in the Reign of Charles I; The Common Man in the Civil War; Captain Hind the Highwayman.

Keywords: British Historiography, Great Britain, History, Early Stuarts, Seventeenth Century, , , ,