This research sets as its objective to examine the theoretical production of the british historian, Herbert Butterfield, through the analysis of the following books: The Historical Novel (1924), The Whig Interpretation of History (1933) and The Englishman and His History (1944). The proposed reading of the texts search to Butterfield s writing, in its conceptual, argumentative and historiographical elements. In parallel with the main argument, it explores the following themes: the study of Butterfield s writing style, the debate about the relations between past and present in historiography and the disciplinarization of History, under the perspective of the positivist critique. This text comprehends the need to explore the conceptual particularities of each book, emphasising the differences and similarities found within the designed approach.