"The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present."

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Source : Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”

Herbert Butterfield

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