But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

In historian J. E. Neale's view, Elizabeth may not have declared her wishes openly to James, but she made them known with " unmistakable if veiled phrases ".

In 1974, U. S. historian Elizabeth A. R. Brown rejected the label feudalism as an anachronism that imparts a false sense of uniformity to the concept.

His birth date has traditionally been recorded as January 19, 1807, but according to the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor, " Lee's writings indicate he may have been born the previous year.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

* Elizabeth Norton — historian and author

* Elizabeth Yates, author and historian

* Elizabeth Levett, historian

Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, CBE, better known as Elizabeth Longford ( 30 August 1906 – 23 October 2002 ) was a British historian.

He is a direct descendant of King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan and is therefore fifth cousin once removed of Elizabeth II, second cousin once removed of the British Prime Minister David Cameron and first cousin once removed of the historian John Julius Norwich.

He is a direct descendant of King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan and is therefore fifth cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II, second cousin once removed of the Conservative party leader David Cameron and first cousin once removed of the historian John Julius Norwich.

Under the Roman trappings of iudex provincialis or defensor civitatis, the historian of early medieval Raetia, Elizabeth Meyer-Marthaler, recognized the public officials common throughout the Frankish empire.

* Tom Heathwood interviews broadcast historian Elizabeth McLeod

* Tom Heathwood interviews broadcast historian Elizabeth McLeod

Iroquois historian Elizabeth Tooker has pointed to several differences between the two forms of government, notably that all decisions were made by a consensus of male chiefs who gained their position through a combination of blood descent and selection by female relatives, that representation on the basis of the number of clans in the group rather than the size or population of the clans, that the topics discussed were decided by a single tribe.

According to radio historian Elizabeth McLeod, the failed venture left Wynn deep in debt, divorced and finally, suffering a nervous breakdown.

He was born at Great Yarmouth, the eldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave, the historian and his wife Elizabeth Turner, daughter of the banker Dawson Turner.

When King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Rideau Hall on 19 May 1939, during their first royal tour of Canada, official royal tour historian Gustave Lanctot stated: " When Their Majesties walked into their Canadian residence, the Statute of Westminster had assumed full reality: the King of Canada had come home.

Commager married author Evan Alexa Carroll ( b. Feb 4, 1904, d. Mar 28 1968 ) of Bennettsville, South Carolina on July 3, 1928 ; the couple had three children, Henry Steele Commager Jr., known as Steele Commager, who became an eminent classicist at Columbia University and wrote the leading book on the Roman poet Horace ; Elizabeth Carroll Commager ; and Nellie Thomas McCall Commager ( now Nell Lasch, wife of the historian Christopher Lasch ).

Through his mother, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Gibbon of Rolvenden, Kent, he was connected with the family of Edward Gibbon the historian.

Elizabeth was a daughter of American historian John Lothrop Motley and his wife Mary Benjamin.

* Ola Elizabeth Winslow ( 1885 – 1977 ), American author and historian

Clark was born at 55 Lancaster Gate, London, the elder son of art historian, Kenneth Clark and his wife Elizabeth Winifred Martin.

As the Romans outlawed human sacrifice, this opens up other possibilities ; this was emphasised by historian Ronald Hutton, who challenged the interpretation of sacrificial death.

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.

Victorian and Edwardian historians had rarely addressed this question, but in 1948 historian John Harvey challenged what he perceived as " the conspiracy of silence " surrounding Richard's homosexuality.

In 2010, the German historian Christoph Schaefer challenged all other theories, declaring that the queen had actually been poisoned and died from drinking a mixture of poisons.

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

The use of these rooms has been the subject of academic debate: historian Arnold Taylor argued that the first floor of the gatehouse was used by the constable as living accommodation, with the second floor used by senior visitors ; Jeremy Ashbee has since challenged this interpretation, suggesting the high status accommodation may instead have been located within the inner ward, and the gatehouse used for other purposes.

Orthodox historian, Bishop Arseny ( Bryantsev ), challenged the authenticity of the correspondence and, incidentally, points to the 50 letters of Cyril of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich and Moscow Patriarch Filaret, stored in a Moscow archive of the main Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the evidence of Cyril's commitment to Orthodoxy, as well as in his 1622 letter in which he speaks of Protestantism as a blasphemous doctrine.

But in the 20th century some authorities challenged the reality of Galileo's experiments, in particular the French historian of science Alexandre Koyré.

This was challenged by historian Edward J. Larson in his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion ( 1997 ), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1998.

According to the literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".

Thucydides makes sure to inform his reader that he, unlike Homer, is not a poet prone to exaggeration, but instead a historian, whose stories may not give " momentary pleasure ," but " whose intended meaning will be challenged by the truth of the facts.

In the words of historian Benjamin Lossing, Canonicus " regarded the advent of the white men with a jealous fear " and in 1622 he challenged the Plymouth colony, in front of a force of about 5, 000 men.

In 2006, Oliver Kamm challenged Cromwell's dependence on American historian Howard Zinn, and both men's knowledge of source material relevant to the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, claiming this was " a subject wholly outwith Cromwell's competence ".

Subsequently, the article was strongly challenged by the late historian Jules Tygiel, who refuted it point-by-point in an article in the 2006 issue of SABR's The Baseball Research Journal, and in an appendix, entitled “ Did Bill Veeck Lie About His Plan to Purchase the ’ 43 Phillies ?,” published in Paul Dickson ’ s biography, Bill Veeck: Baseball ’ s Greatest Maverick.

Professor Tim Murray writes that this Trojan foundation myth was not challenged until Polydore Vergil, historian of the early Tudor dynasty, questioned it in the 16th century.

" The idea of appeasement as error and cowardice was challenged in 1960 by historian A. J. P. Taylor's highly controversial " The Origins of The Second World War ", in which he argued that, in the circumstances, it might be seen as a rational policy.

The story of Long's advice to Owens has been challenged by Olympic historian Tom Ecker, who had studied the footage of the games.

The Marxist historian Henri H. Stahl has challenged this particular thesis, calling it " highly questionable ".

However, this categorization has been challenged by historian Martin Gainsborough, who notes that Phiêu made some remarkably outspoken comments about problems in the party before the Tenth Party Congress.

Urban historian Richard C. Wade challenged the Frontier Thesis in his first asset, The Urban Frontier ( 1959 ), asserting that western cities such as Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Cincinnati, not the farmer pioneers, were the catalysts for western expansion.

Gross ' Neighbors and Fear were subjected to scholarly criticism by historian Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, whose interpretations directly challenged Gross ..

In February 2007, Polk's " status as a symbol of journalistic integrity " was challenged by historian Richard Frank, who concluded that Polk made false claims about his service record in World War II.