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Just under 20 years ago I gave a lecture in the University of London Senate House on the state of Intellectual History in England in my academic lifetime. It consisted of two themes. The first was the lack of recognition, as it seemed to me, accorded to the subject. The second was a number of caveats about the forms that such recognition, in a better world, might take.
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S. Collini, ‘A Nebulous Province: the science of politics in the early twentieth century’ in S. Collini, D. Winch and J. Burrow, That Noble Science of Politics. A study in nineteenth-century intellectual history (Cambridge, 1983), p. 377.
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Burrow, J.W. (2006). intellectual history in english academic life: reflections on a revolution. In: Whatmore, R., Young, B. (eds) palgrave advances in intellectual history. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230204300_2
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