PREFACE
"Beyond doubt the finished historian must be a traveller: he must see with his own eyes the true look of a wide land; he must see, too, with his eyes the very spots where great events happened; he must mark the lie of a city, and take in, as far as a non-technical eye can, all that is special about a battle-field."
So wrote Mr. Freeman in his Methods of Historical Study, and he possessed to the full the instincts of the traveller as...
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