English Explanatory Dictionary

Whig history

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a “glorious present”.

Word forms

Whig history Whig histories

Etymology

Described by English historian Herbert Butterfield in The Whig Interpretation of History (1931).

Related words

arc of history end of history

Derived words

Whiggish

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