IN DEFENCE OF SEELEY
Paul Sagar is surely right that renaming the Seeley history library at Cambridge is a distraction from helping current victims of oppression and injustice and benefits no one (“FIGHT THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER, APRIL). It seems to me, however, that more can and should be said in defence of John Richard Seeley.
Seeley was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, and a liberal-minded, erudite, imaginative, and
