On This Day 18th October 1903 Bruce McFarlane was born in Streatham
(Kenneth) Bruce McFarlane (1903–1966), historian, was born on 18 October 1903 at 191 Amesbury Avenue, Streatham, the only child of Andrew McFarlane OBE, a civil servant in the Admiralty
A medieval historian, McFarlane opened up the study of 15th–century England through his use both of new types of sources and by moving beyond the conventional constitutional narrative to a more complex analytical approach.
He was the playwright, Alan Bennett's Don at Oxford. Alan bennet remembers McFarlane in https://www.lrb.co.uk/.../k.b.-mcfarlane-is-remembered-by...
Image of McFarlane © John Gibbons Studios
(Kenneth) Bruce McFarlane (1903–1966), historian, was born on 18 October 1903 at 191 Amesbury Avenue, Streatham, the only child of Andrew McFarlane OBE, a civil servant in the Admiralty
A medieval historian, McFarlane opened up the study of 15th–century England through his use both of new types of sources and by moving beyond the conventional constitutional narrative to a more complex analytical approach.
He was the playwright, Alan Bennett's Don at Oxford. Alan bennet remembers McFarlane in https://www.lrb.co.uk/.../k.b.-mcfarlane-is-remembered-by...
Image of McFarlane © John Gibbons Studios