Volume 35 Issue 3 March 1985

Gillian Goodwin on traditional recipes for Lent.

To historians he seemed to be a philosopher, to philosophers an historian. But in spite of the difficulty of categorising the late Michel Foucault (1926-84), or perhaps because of that very difficulty, he has had a considerable impact on historical writing and deserves to have more.

In 1972 Albert Paul, a retired Brighton carpenter, produced a charming account of his childhood years for a local history society entitled Poverty, hardship but happiness; those were the days, 1903-17.

David Stevenson looks at the three-kingdom state in the seventeenth century.

'Measure twice because you can cut only once', is a carpenter's adage making the rounds of American history departments in the wake of the case of David Abraham.

History may ultimately be story-telling, but one moral that's lost on most historians is that every picture tells a story, says Roy Porter.

A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.

Accounts of Winston Churchill's conduct of this office in 1910-11 generally underline those incidents of public disorder rioting coal miners in Tonypandy; besieged revolutionaries in Sidney Street. Victor Bailey asserts they reveal Churchill as an illiberal, sabre-rattler, eager for armed conflict between soldiers and workers.

Charles Townshend evaluates the judgement of General Gordon and the ill-fated British mission in the Sudan.

David Starkey visits the Lincoln Center for a night at the opera.