 Whether writing of the seventeenth or the nineteenth centuries or the Middle Ages, Wingfield-Stratford treated figures of the past as though he had known them individually.His particular approach to history treated the real-world, physical evidence of landscape and buildings as no less significant than archives and literature.When he published his last book, "Beyond Empire", in 1964 he could point to about forty volumes bearing his name, including—besides histories—polemical works, fiction, and poetry.