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The Progress of Historical Research during the Session 1889–91
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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The support and encouragement given by successive Sovereigns, Parliaments, Ministries, and departmental offices to the cause of historical research in this country have long since been gratefully acknowledged by the great body of European students. From the primitive practice of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when literary sovereigns and their great officers of state admitted favoured historiographers to a private view of current despatches, or when the same fortunate scribes were allowed to inspect the archives in the royal Treasury itself by the good offices of its guardian clerks, down to the modern system of ‘permits’ granted with a rare liberality by the Secretaries of State and other departmental heads to students of every rank and nationality to inspect comparatively recent archives, the Government of this country has manifested a consistent regard for the interests of historical truth which the Governments of other countries have been led in turn to emulate and even to surpass.
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page 263 note 1 It is discouraging, however, to read in the latest official catalogue that ‘the material reduction of the amount voted in Parliament’ for this service has ‘prevented the undertaking of any fresh work since 1885.’
page 266 note 1 A selection from military and diplomatic State Papers during the Third Coalition, edited by Mr. Oscar Browning, is in progress. It may be noticed also that the Folklore Society, which is concerned, among other things, with the origins of history, has quite recently held an important congress in London, where the Oriental Congress has already concluded its session.
page 268 note 1 Among the recent historical publications of the University Presses, Professor Cunningham's exhaustive History of ‘English Industry and Commerce’ may be specially mentioned.
page 271 note 1 The researches of Mr. Darnell Davis in the West Indies, and of Mr. Theal in Cape Colony, are particularly noticeable.
page 273 note 1 To the general reader, Mr. Sonnenschein's ‘The Best Books,’ the new edition of which is one of the landmarks of bibliography in recent times, will afford, perhaps, sufficient information on this point.