High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The History of England (1754–61) is David Hume`s great work on England`s history which was written in installments while he was serving as librarian to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh, on what was to become the core collection of the National Library of Scotland. It was published in six volumes in 1754, 1756, 1759, and 1761. The first publication of his History was greeted with outrage by all political factions, but it became a best-seller, finally giving him the financial independence he had long sought. Both the British Library and the Cambridge University Library, as well as Hume`s own library, still list him as "David Hume, the historian." More a category of books than a single work, Hume`s History spanned "from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688" and went through over 100 editions. Many considered it the standard history of England until Thomas Macaulay`s The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.