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By Ian Hesketh

New attitudes in the direction of heritage in nineteenth-century Britain observed a rejection of romantic, literary recommendations in favour of a professionalized, medical technique. the advance of historical past as a systematic self-discipline used to be undertaken by means of a number of key historians of the Victorian interval, stimulated by way of German medical background and British common philosophy. This examine examines parallels among the professionalization of either heritage and technology on the time, that have formerly been overlooked.

Hesketh demanding situations authorised notions of a unmarried clinical method of background. as an alternative, he attracts on various sources—monographs, lectures, correspondence—from eminent Victorian historians to discover various competing discourses.

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