1. See also Michael Bentley, Modernizing England’s Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism 1870–1970 (Cambridge, 2005), 142–3.
2. Burrow, A History of Histories, 472, 478; Noel Annan, The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (Chicago, IL, 1999), 96.
3. OED describes the verb as ‘now rare’; Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939), vii; A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale and J. Morris, eds, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (3 vols; Cambridge, 1971–92).
4. Reba Soffer, ‘The Development of Disciplines in the Modern English University’, HJ, 31 (1988): 933–46, 937.
5. F.W. Maitland, ‘The Body Politic’, in H.A.L. Fisher, ed., The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland (3 vols; Cambridge, 1911), iii. 285.