Academic history is essentially telling the story of the past in a non dramatized way to retain as much accuracy as possible. Sure the same stories are told through more personal lenses, but they also get clouded by the viewpoints. So you can pretty much look to academic accounts of most historical events to find a narrative without meaningful character development.

I mean, just look at character development. It's so often shown through internal dialogues or expressive emotional monologues. Neither of these things tend to be recorded by history, or the historical event is of such a scale that inclusion of such things would be ancillary at most, but certainly not integral.