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The Past and Present Revisited. By Lawrence Stone. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987. Pp. xii, 440. Paperback, £9·95. - The New History and the Old. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1987. Pp. 209. £15·95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

G. R. Elton
G. R. Elton
Affiliation:
Clare College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 761 - 764
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References

1 The past and the present (1981). My review of this in The Times Educational Supplement in July 1981 will, I hope, excuse me from going over all the ground again.

2 E.g. Ozment, Steven, When fathers ruled: family life in Reformation Europe(1983)Google Scholar; Pollock, Linda A., Forgotten children: parent-child relations from 1500 to 1900 (Cambridge, 1983)Google Scholar.

3 See reviews by Perkin, Harold (Journal of British Studies XXIV (1985), 496–501)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Eileen, and Spring, David (Albion, XVII (1985), 149–66)Google Scholar: one friendly, the other not. Both agree in their doubts about the arguments and conclusions of the book.