ABSTRACT
This, then, implies a need for some injection of ‘philosophy’ into historical study-some examination of the nature of the subject itself, of its aims and objectives, of its central concepts, and of the validity of claims that might be made by its practitioners. It implies, in other words, some study of historiography-of what it is that historians have thought, and do think, they are doing, and of what we ourselves think that we should be doing.
