Charles Dell­heim is pro­fes­sor of his­to­ry at Boston Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the author of The Face of the Past: The Preser­va­tion of the Medieval Inher­i­tance in Vic­to­ri­an Eng­land and The Dis­en­chant­ed Isle: Mrs. Thatcher’s Cap­i­tal­ist Rev­o­lu­tion.