Macaulay was born at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire on 25 October 1800, the son of Zachary Macaulay, a Scottish Highlander, who became a colonial governor and abolitionist, and Selina Mills of Bristol, a former pupil of See more

Macaulay in 1830 accepted the invitation of Marquess of Lansdowne that he become Member of Parliament for the pocket borough of Calne. Macaulay's maiden speech in Parliament was advocated abolition of the civil disabilities of the Jews in the UK. … See more

Macaulay's political writings are famous for their ringing prose and for their confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history, according to which … See more

• Works by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay at Project Gutenberg
• Lays of Ancient Rome originally published in the year 1842.
• The History of England from the Accession of James II . Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. 1848 – via Wikisource See more

As a young man he composed the ballads Ivry and The Armada, which he later included as part of Lays of Ancient Rome, a series of very popular poems about heroic episodes in Roman history which he began composing in India and continued in Rome, … See more

During the 1840s, Macaulay undertook his most famous work, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, publishing the first … See more

The Liberal historian Lord Acton read Macaulay's History of England four times and later described himself as "a raw English schoolboy, primed to the brim with Whig politics" but "not See more