harden and improve History

Bert Palmrequested to merge
harden_history into develop
  • make History.hist and History.meta properties, which return shallow copies on get and validate value on set
  • added optional params start and stop to History.squeeze() to use slicing with squeeze
  • improved validation and Error messages
  • added History.createFromData(), to someday replace the function createHistoryFromData()

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