that Stubbs, like John Richard Green and Edward Augustus Freeman, was an historical scholar with little or no experience of public affairs, with views of the present which were romantically historicised and who was drawn to history by what was in a broad sense an antiquarian passion for the past, as well as a patriotic and populist impulse to identify the nation and its institutions as the collective subject of English history, making the new historiography of early medieval times an extension, filling out and democratising, of older Whig notions of continuity. It was Stubbs who presented this most substantially; Green who made it popular and dramatic... It is in Freeman...of the three the most purely a narrative historian, that the strains are most apparent. Publications The medieval kingdoms of Cyprus and Armenia: two lectures delivered 26 and 29 October 1878. Oxford: E. Pickard Hall, M.A., and J.H. Stacy (1878) The constitutional History of England, 3 vols, 5th ed. (Oxford, 1891–98). The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, (sixth edition 1903) Volume One Volume Two Volume Three References Sources Cam, Helen. "Stubbs Seventy Years after." Cambridge Historical Journal 9#2 (1948): 129–47. online. Letters of William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, ed. W. H. Hutton. Charles Petit-Dutaillis, Studies and Notes Supplementary to Stubbs' Constitutional History, Volume One Volume Two External links Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury Chetham Society Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History 1825 births 1901 deaths People from Knaresborough People educated at Ripon Grammar School Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Bishops of Chester Bishops of Oxford Doctors of Divinity 19th-century English historians Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford Anglo-Saxon studies scholars British medievalists Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques Regius Professors of History (University of Oxford) English legal writers Members of the American Antiquarian Society Chancellors of the Order of the Garter Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) 19th-century Church of England bishops Surtees Society Chetham Society Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire