William Henry Walsh FBA FRSE (/wɒlʃ/; 10 December 1913 – 7 April 1986) was a 20th-century British philosopher and classicist. He was an expert on Immanuel Kant. In an essay on "Meaning in History," he argued that the role of the historian is to neither to catalogue events nor to trace chains of causation, but rather to draw out connections between details and events in ways that make the past, if never quite tidy, then still broadly intelligible.[1]