Making History

Will historians see 2020 as the peak of a global crisis – or will the world continue on its perilous course?

Good references are invaluable, not just to give credit, but to build a map of the paths taken for research.

The presence of Covid-19 is a reminder of our new proximity to the fragilities and perils of the past.

In a time of crisis, empathy is the antidote to a culture of naming and shaming.

The government’s count of its citizens is of enormous value to historians.

At what point does memoir become biography and biography become history?

What happened when a historian took the ‘Life in the UK’ test for British citizenship?

Radicals and revolutionaries found inspiration in the study of Greece and Rome.

Historians often envisage a gulf between family history and other engagements with the past, but they can easily overlap.