Originally published in 6 volumes, &quot;The History of England from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688&quot; has gone through over 100 editions.<br /><br />David Hume saw English history as an evolution from a government of will to a government of law, which makes <b>The History</b> a study of enduring value to the modern reader.<br /><br />David Hume&#39;s reputation in philosophy tends to obscure the fact that among his contemporaries &quot;The History of England&quot; was his most successful work and to this day both the British Library and the Cambridge University Library continue to list him as &quot;David Hume, historian.&quot;<br /><br />David Hume and Thomas Babington Macaulay have frequently been compared as the premier English historians but we don&#39;t have to choose because Macaulay begins where Hume leaves off.&nbsp;