The History of England is the Macaulay's monument, but he also reported on events in India and jurisprudential Notes appended to the Indian Penal Code.
His two sisters, one of whom never married and may have actually written much of the histories and aided in all aspects, are not much expressly credited, although much beloved. This seems to speak to the quiet pervasiveness of the prejudice against women as thinkers. Macaulay himself could recognize invidious discrimination and demanded equal rights for Jews.
Macaulay defends free markets, by looking at their achievements. For example he observed the early Industrial Revolution (in England) as enabling millions of families to prosper who had been disenfranchised from their gardens by feudal estate lords.

NOTES:

Macaulay recounts the Case of Aikenhead, in the context of just having commended the Parliament of Scotland for its passage of the Act for the settling of public Schools. The first of its kind, the Act required each parish to build a school and pay a teacher, to provide education for the commoners. The Act had immediate consequences: "...the common people of Scotland were superior in intelligence to the common people of any other country in Europe...their early training raised him above his competitors." [IV.xxii, page 306-307].

Macaulay made the point that the Lords of Scotland made this historical and "wonderful change", which "humanized the hearts of millions", without understanding what they were doing. The same Lords, in the same month they settled the schools, they proceeded
"to carry out a persecution of witches and infidels" worthy of the 10th century. Twenty-two witches were tried.

This persecution included book burnings, and the "trial" of Thomas Aikenhead, described above. "The preachers who were the boy's murderers crowded round him at the gallows, and, while he was struggling in the last agony, insulted Heaven with prayers more blasphemous than anything that he had ever uttered." [309]

We have to appreciate, with much gratitude, the fact that TODAY, the Presbyterians have calmed down. They are not hanging us. However, whatever doctrinal or procedural distinctions anyone may draw down between Christianity and Islam, the fact remains that TODAY, Islam is doing to heretics what Christians did in the late 1600s. ( )