11.   By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult code.

12.   A skilled historian is able to entwine his inventory material with evidence gathered from a variety of other sources.

13.   Nevertheless, census returns are amongst the most reliable records that a local and family historian is likely to use.

14.   At the same time, the historian is liable to think in terms of England as a nation, and of English society as essentially one.

15.   Some historians have been dismissive of this northern support.

16.   With the benefit of hindsight, historians have been able to find various silver linings for de Gaulle in the protracted failure of the RPF.

17.   Historians were as willing as hagiographers to use oral tradition.

18.   Without going quite so far, historians have indeed been critical.

19.   Historians have been more dismissive of the evidence of Whig crowds at the Hanoverian Succession, on the grounds that these appear to have been deliberately manipulated from above.

20.   This is not to suggest that historians should not be involved in the process.