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English History A Term: In 1874, after having been twice rewritten, his Short History of the English People appeared. This work unified English history as no other had yet done. "What Macaulay had done for a period of English history," said his fellow historian Mandell Creighton, "Green did for it as a whole." Green's purpose was to show the development of English life by a fusion of constitutional, economic, literary, artistic, and social history—subjects that historians had formerly treated independently. He expanded this very successful work into History of the English People (1877-1880).RESTORATION, The, in English history a term applied to the accession of King Charles II, in 1660, after the civil war, to the throne of England, after an interregnum of 11 years and 4 months, from 30 Jan. 1649 (when Charles I was beheaded) to 29 May 1660. In French history, the first restoration begins 3 May 1814, when Louis XVIII made his entry into Paris under the protection of foreign bayonets and ended with the return of Napoleon from Elba, 20 March 1815. The beginning of the second restoration is generally reckoned from the battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815, and terminated on 29 July 1830, with the abdication of Charles X.
In preparing the 12-volume History of England (1856-1870) he examined tens of thousands }f documents in the English Record Office and in :he archives at Brussels, Paris, Vienna, and Si-nancas, Spain. No such work from original iources had previously appeared, and it went hrough many editions. Regarding the Reforma-ion as the greatest event in English history, he nterpreted the Statute Book in the light of con-emporary records, and was thus compelled to a lualified defense of Henry VIII and to reluctant tcknowledgment that Elizabeth I's wisdom was hat of her ministers, Burghley in particular. |
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