In 1972, J. R. Western wrote that: "Despite its age and blemishes, Macaulay's History of England has still to be superseded by a full-scale modern history of the period."[REF]
In 1981 J. W. Burrow argued that Macaulay's History of England: .. is not simply partisan; a judgement, like that of Firth, that Macaulay was always the Whig politician could hardly be more inapposite.