Nonetheless, as historian Boyd Hilton concludes, " it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problematic.

German cultural and social historian, in: Kelly Boyd ( Ed.

The 17th century historian David Calderwood named the Ruthven Raiders as the Earls of Mar and Gowrie, the Master of Glamis, the Laird of Easter-Wemyss, Lewis Bellenden, Lord Boyd, Lord Lindsay, the Abbots of Dunfermline, Dryburgh, and Paisley, the Prior of Pittenween, and the Constable of Dundee.

* Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen, Hilton Als, United States Rep. John Lewis ( American politician ) | John Lewis and historian Leon F. Litwack.

* 7 Rodney Hilton, 85, British historian.

Rodney Howard Hilton ( 17 November 1916 – 7 June 2002 ) was an English Marxist historian of the late medieval period and the transition from feudalism to capitalism.

" The historian Benedicta Ward argues that these passages are Bede employing a rhetorical device.

The historian Walter Goffart argues that Bede based the structure of the Historia on three works, using them as the framework around which the three main sections of the work were structured.

As historian John McManners argues, " In eighteenth-century France throne and altar were commonly spoken of as in close alliance ; their simultaneous collapse ... would one day provide the final proof of their interdependence.

Middle East historian Bernard Lewis argues that " the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists ( specialists in the hadith ) understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense.

The historian Nicholas Brooks argues that the choice of Rochester was probably not because it had been a Roman-era bishopric, but rather because of its importance in the politics of the time.

Bede's account of Eadbald's conversion states that it was Laurence, Justus ' predecessor at Canterbury, who converted the King to Christianity, but the historian D. P. Kirby argues that the letter's reference to Eadbald makes it likely that it was Justus.

The historian Ernest Gellner argues that Continental European countries were far more successful in implementing educational reform precisely because their governments were more willing to invest in the population as a whole.

This traditional view, that the Epistola represents a contradiction of the letter to Æthelberht, has been challenged by the historian and theologian George Demacopoulos, who argues that the letter to Æthelberht was mainly meant to encourage the King in spiritual matters, while the Epistola was sent to deal with purely practical matters, and thus the two do not contradict each other.

" Alessandro Portelli argues that oral history is valuable nevertheless: " it tells us less about events as such than about their meaning [...] the unique and precious element which oral sources force upon the historian [...] is the speaker's subjectivity.

The historian Gordon S. Wood argues that Jefferson's political philosophy was a product of his time and his scientific interests.

Film historian Jeanine Basinger argues that a sub-genre, the World War II combat film, emerged in 1943.

However, the historian Kaiming Chiu argues in his The Introduction of Spectacles Into China that spectacles were introduced into China as far back as the late 13th century.

The historian Robert Mantran argues that from this point of view it was successful-from this point on, the Muslims were no longer primarily concerned with survival but with expansion and conquest.

In his work on Alfred the Great, historian David Sturdy argues that the witan did not embody modern notions of a ' national institution ' or a ' democratic ' body: Victorian notions of a national ' witan ' are crazy dreams without foundation, myths of a ' democratic parliament ' that never was.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

Many of these prisoners were women and came from a wider range of social backgrounds than the upper-class Calvinists detained under Louis XIV ; historian Monique Cottret argues that the decline of the Bastille's social " mystique " originates from this phase of detentions.

" Film historian Mariann Lewinsky argues,

Most accounts of the Black Hawk War focus on the conflict between Black Hawk and the United States, but historian John Hall argues that this overlooks the perspective of many Native American participants.

After Andrew Jackson assumed the U. S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents were replaced by unqualified Jackson loyalists, argues historian John Hall.

Vitzthum argues that Bancroft was the historian as artist and philosopher.

The historian James Fraser argues that Wilfrid may not have been allowed to return to Northumbria and instead went into exile at the Mercian court, but most historians have argued that Wilfrid was at Ripon.

One historian argues that these cute creations helped ease young readers ' fears over the prospect of nuclear war and neutralize anxieties over the questions posed by atomic power.

H. R. Loyn, another modern historian, argues that it is likely that he died in 1053.

The historian Mark Philpott, however, argues that St-Calais was knowledgeable in canon law, since he owned a copy of the canon law, the False Decretals, which still survives.

* Mark Peel ( born 1959 ), Australian historian and academic

A vocal group of critics of Christian Science church managerial policy including Lee Johnson, and Stephen Gottschalk, a protégé of historian and author, Robert Peel, came together after the publication of the Knapp book to petition the Church management to withdraw the book from publication and to inform the Church membership of their belief that this book contradicted Eddy's teachings, thereby violating her Church Manual.

Perhaps owing to Wellington's endorsement, Peel intended from the start, as the historian S. J Lee tells, " to fully convince the country and electorate that there was a substantial difference between his brand of conservatism and that of his predecessor and ' old tory ' Wellington.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

He also knew Orosius's Adversus Paganus, and Gregory of Tours ' Historia Francorum, both Christian histories, as well as the work of Eutropius, a pagan historian.

For example: if five ancient historians, none of whom knew each other, all claim that Julius Caesar seized power in Rome in 49 BCE, this is strong evidence in favor of that event occurring even if each individual historian is only partially reliable.

Punch historian M. H. Spielmann, who knew Tenniel, understood that the political clout contained in his Punch cartoons was capable of “ swaying parties and people, too … ( the cartoons ) exercised great influence ” on the ideas of popular reform skirting throughout the British public.

The British historian / television producer Laurence Rees noted for his 1997 series The Nazis: A Warning from History that every single person interviewed for the series who knew Ribbentrop expressed a passionate hatred for him.

The American historian Charles Thomas wrote that Raeder's remarks about the executions in the Seekriegsleitung war diary seemed to be some sort of ironic comment in protest against the executions, which might have reflected a guilty conscience on the part of Raeder in enforcing a policy that he knew well to be illegal, and one that might lead him to being prosecuted for war crimes if Germany should lose the war.

The architectural historian Sir John Summerson asserts that the palace shows " the essence of Wolsey — the plain English churchman who nevertheless made his sovereign the arbiter of Europe and who built and furnished Hampton Court to show foreign embassies that Henry VIII's chief minister knew how to live as graciously as any cardinal in Rome.

The main sources for knowledge of Wilfrid are the medieval Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, written by Stephen of Ripon soon after Wilfrid's death, and the works of the medieval historian Bede, who knew Wilfrid during the bishop's lifetime.

" He adds the historian José Muñoz Maldonado: " They knew with certainty the approach of the enemy and took no providence, or to give or to avoid battle '.

During the 1850s, X-bracing was used by several makers, all German immigrants who knew each other, and according to historian Philip Gura there is no evidence that C. F. Martin invented the system.

" He knew nearly all the most interesting people in Italy, besides many distinguished foreigners: Giuseppe Giusti, the poet, Alessandro Manzoni, the novelist, Niccolò Tommaseo, Richard Cobden, A von Reumont, the historian, were among those whom he entertained at his palace or his villas, and many were the struggling students and revolutionists to whom he gave assistance.

The Roman historian Tacitus, in his book chronicling the life of his father-in-law, Agricola, describes how the Romans knew that Britain ( which Agricola was commander of ) was an island.

According to historian Robert H. Ferrell, Byrnes knew little more about foreign relations than Truman.

The British historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, who knew Schleicher well, remembered hearing Schleicher proclaim during a dinner in a posh restaurant in Berlin in the spring of 1932 that " What Germany needs today is a strong man " while tapping himself on the chest.

The British historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett — who knew Schleicher and his circle well — wrote that the " lack of discretion " that Bredow displayed as he went about showing anyone who was interested the list of the proposed cabinet was " terrifying ".

The Greek historian Herodotus was familiar with Frankincense and knew it was harvested from trees in southern Arabia.

The architectural historian Mark Girouard has suggested that the design is in fact derived from Nikolaus de Lyra's reconstruction, and Josephus's description, of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem ,, with a more direct inspiration being the mid-sixteenth century Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, which Smythson knew.

The church historian Socrates knew of Quartodecimans who were deprived of their churches by John Chrysostom, and harassed in unspecified ways by Nestorius, both bishops of Constantinople.

The British historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, who knew Goerdeler well, noted that Goerdeler failed to realize that Hitler was not bluffing with Fall Grün and had every intention of attacking Czechoslovakia on October 1, 1938, and that he regarded Munich as a personal set-back.

" Before anyone knew it ," wrote comics historian Christopher Irving, " the hundreds of Fold-Ins created a timeline of American history, political satire, and entertainment.

The general consensus today is that government did not organize it, but the opinions on how much Pašić knew about it is still a controversial issue and it appears that every historian has its own opinion on the subject: Pašić knew nothing ( Ćorović ); Pašić knew something is about to happen and told Russia Austria would attack Serbia before the assassination ( Dragnić ); Pašić knew but as the assassins were connected to the powerful members of the Serbian intelligence was afraid to do anything about it personally so he warned Vienna ( Balfour ).