What is History?
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European history is whatever the historian wants it to be. It is a summary of the events and ideas political, religious, military, serious, romantic, prosaic, near at hand, far away, tragic, comic, significant, meaningless, anything else you would like it to be. There is only one limiting factor. It must take place in or derive from the area we cal
Published January 1 1986
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Jeffrey Richards answers
Published December 1 1985
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Dai Smith, senior lecturer at University College, Cardiff, offers his thoughts.
Published December 1 1985
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Stephen Yeo ends our discussion...
Published December 1 1985
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'All human life is there'. But is it - and can it be interpreted on a par with the chronicles of the great and good? Five social historians discuss the relevance of history without 'kings and things'. Published December 1 1985
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Historians ask, what constitutes the history of popular culture? Published December 1 1985
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'Art for art's sake' – but not for many historians. The fine and decorative arts, their styles and iconography, have been mined for insight into the politics, religion and social obsessions of the past. Placing key images alongside the views of six contributors we continue the search. Published November 1 1985
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Distilled 'spirit of the age' or a branch of sociology? Great men and their thoughts - with a lucky dip for culture vultures - or elite ideas whose time had come? Five historians discuss ground rules for the study of intellectual history. Published October 1 1985
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Historians ask what constitutes the history of the developing world. Published August 31 1985
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The history of ecclesiastical structures? The link between denominations and social change? The history of Christian doctrine? The study of formal beliefs? What people believed? Eight historians answer the question... Published July 31 1985
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Eight historians ask what constitutes diplomatic history. Published June 30 1985
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Putting women back in the record? Rewriting the past? Ghetto history? Gender analysis? Eight historians ask what is women's history? Published May 31 1985
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Six leading historians of science define their discipline. Published April 30 1985
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Six leading historians of science define their discipline. Published March 31 1985
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A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? The sort of history Socialists write? Rescuing the past from the enormous 'condescension of posterity'? Mobilising popular enthusiasm? What is social history? Seven historians answer... Published March 1 1985
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