Time's Witness
A Novel

A bit long-winded in some places but very very interesting.......more

This is a difficult book to categorise - would it appeal to those interested in the history of history, or who like to know about those characters who were antiquaries, or those interested in Romantic writers? Or is it a book about social myth-making or the comparative sense of nationalism of Britai......more

Rosemary Hill reinstates the antiquaries Although this book is arguably of lesser significance than her outstanding biography of Pugin, it performs a similar service, by assessing the relative importance of antiquarians to the architectural and historical record. She makes a good case for that many w......more

Well written and wide ranging there is an amazing depth of knowledge on display here. In the first half of the 19th century what we call history first became a subject for study and literature. This book explores that pivotal moment in the British Isles. If you have any interest at all in history yo......more