The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield History, Science and God

Review of the hardback: 'An exceptional book ... This is a very fine work of historical scholarship. If Cambridge University Press books are available in heaven (could it be heaven without them?) then Herbert Butterfield should feel vindicated, and deeply grateful for such a remarkable biographer.' Reform Magazine Review of the hardback: 'Michael Bentley has written a fascinating study of Herbert Butterfield.' Jonathan Haslam, The Guardian Review of the hardback: '... Bentley displays exemplary patience, tact and imagination in reconstructing his subject's personality and thinking, as much from scrappy and inconclusive jottings as from conventional records such as letters and diaries.' Times Literary Supplement Review of the hardback: 'Butterfield was a great figure during his lifetime: Regius Professor of History, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of Peterhouse ... Bentley provides a sympathetic although not uncritical account of Butterfield's life, a gallant attempt to resurrect a historian most of whose books will never be opened again.' Times Higher Education Review of the hardback: '[Professor] Bentley excels in reconstructing Butterfield's contributions to the history of science, to historiography and to the relationship among belief, analysis and the writing of history by showing how all three influenced one another ... Bentley has done the reputation of Butterfield the man and the writer on history good service and has given us a portrait that is full of understanding.' Contemporary Review Review of the hardback: 'Butterfield's 'thought' is expertly explored, especially in the unsignposted decade after his Whig Interpretation of History (1931).' Church Times Review of the hardback: 'Definitive.' Methodist Recorder '... exceptionally illuminating new biography ...' Journal of British Studies