Historians, history brokers, consumers, and English historical culture 1800-1970.(Book review) From: CLIO | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism 1870-1970. By Michael Bentley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii + 245 pages.

The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953. By Billie Melman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii + 363 pages.

Why be concerned with historians of an earlier century, many of them no longer read or taken seriously today? That was one of the predictable questions Michael Bentley fielded in 2003 from a member of his audience at one of his Wiles Lectures at Queen's University Belfast, ...

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