George Walter Prothero, Sir( 1848 - 1922)

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Prothero, Sir George Walter (1848–1922)

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Prothero's significant role in the professionalisation of the discipline encompassed both teaching, advocating instruction in methodological techniques, and the wider discipline, where he sought to promote cooperation between historians through institutions like the Royal Historical Society.

Forenames:

George Walter

Surname:

Prothero

Title:

Sir

Dates:

1848–1922

Institutions:

British Academy

HM Foreign Office

Royal Historical Society

Royal Historical Society Bibliography

University of Edinburgh

Significant posts:

Historical Advisor, Foreign Office

President, Royal Historical Society

Professor of History, University of Edinburgh

Themes:

Stuart history

Tudor history

Biographies:

Blackwell Dictionary of Historians

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Obituaries:

Times

Bibliography

* Bibliography from Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)

Personal papers

* National Register of Archives

Significant publications

* G. W. Prothero, Select Statutes and other Documents Illustrative of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I (1894)

Other reading

* Doris S. Goldstein, 'The organizational development of the British historical profession 1884–1921', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 55 (1982), 180–93

• Cambridge Modern History Atlas(1912)