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David Hume
Scottish philosopher David Hume, oil on canvas by Allan Ramsay, 1766; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
David Hume’s History of England was published in six quarto volumes between 1754 and 1762. The work, which covers the period from Julius Caesar’s invasion to 1688, was a significant cultural event that set new standards for impartiality and narrative structure in historical writing.12