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History: Right or Wrong:- Not all of our histories are accurate records that, for good or bad, reflect the true course of events. This could be, in certain instances, because the author was not as careful in his research, which, as an historian, he must be; or, in other instances because the author has some ulterior purpose6; or, simply because the writing of an accurate history is an impossibility. "For in all historical inquiries …

…they should have knowledge of it. "We prefer history to be written by those who know -- if they feel too, so much the better; but the more knowledge they have, the better chance they have of being read." (Birrell.) It maybe, in the final analysis, that a person with some legal training, or, at least, acquainted the rules of evidence is the type of person who would make the best historian: Macaulay thought so.