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This chapter offers a revisionist critique of the career of the Scotsman Charles Rogers (1825–1890) and his role in the foundation of the Royal Historical Society, which serves to highlight how British historical practice was both formed and undone at the confluence of national traditions: how a strong associational dynamic perpetuated discrete national historiographies and professional and patronage networks, and how commerce, as much as university patronage, informed the professionalization of the discipline. It considers how, in both English and Scottish contexts in the late Victorian period, academic history was more contingently constructed than is sometimes thought. More broadly, it points to the limitations of the ‘unionist nationalism’ paradigm in an English context. |
