Porter, a distinguished British historian, died in 2002 at the age of 55.

But this time the news is more than 400 years old and the accusations the work of a dogged British historian.

Roy Porter was among the most important British historians of the last 50 years.

British historians, apart from a few Marxists, were generally hostile.

He was the famous British historian, author and academic.

An early account by two leading British historians of the time.

Patrick Joyce is a British social historian, who has also worked on political history.

A British historian sees Lincoln as a model president, one who knew how power should be won and used.

He "was considered to be among the outstanding British historians of his time."

It seemed a very odd place for a man who prides himself on being a serious British historian.