William Stubbs

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Born	June 21, 1825 • Knaresborough • England
Died	April 22, 1901 (aged 75) • England
Subjects Of Study	Middle Ages • England • constitution

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Norman history

Cecil Sharp

British musician

Sir Roger Twysden

English historian

A.L. Rowse

British historian and writer

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton

British historian

Oliver Cromwell

English statesman

Thomas Cranmer

archbishop of Canterbury

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon

English statesman

James Anthony Froude

British historian

Richard Henry Tawney

British economist

John Rushworth

English historian

William Camden

British historian

A. F. Pollard

English historian and author

Catharine Macaulay

British historian

Nicholas Sanders

English scholar

Roger Of Hoveden

English historian

Sir John Fortescue

English jurist

Thomas Madox

British historian

Richard Challoner

English scholar

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