Maps and History
Jeremy Black shows how historical atlases have for centuries recorded more than objective fact.
Historiography
The Return of Catherine the Great
Tony Lentin gives an upgraded assessment of Russia's empress 200 years after her death.
The Pleasures and Pains of Contemporary History
Paul Hennessy talks of his two unsound heroes in history in the inaugural lecture of the Longman-History Today awards
Rewriting Russia's Revolution
Evan Mawdsley discusses how scholarship both inside and outside the Soviet Union, spurred on by the political somersaults in the East, is revising our view of Lenin, the events of 1917 and after.
The Revolution in South African Historiography
Iain R. Smith looks at the changes in the study of South Africa's past.
Edmund Burke: History, Politics and Polemic
The first of the Romantic historians or a disgruntled propagandist of counter-revolution? Jeremy Black investigates how far Edmund Burke was a child of his times and had a political rather than an academic vocation.
Whatever Happened to the English Reformation?
'Revisionism' has now become a historian's catch-phrase. Long-cherished interpretations of upheavals in British and European history have been re-examined. In this light, Glyn Redworth examines revisionist interpretations of the English Reformation.
The Roman Revolution?
David Braund takes a look over the latest collection of books on the Roman age.
The Norman Conquest
A round up of the latest texts on the complex subject of the Norman Conquest.
Reading History: The Reign of Elizabeth I
Christopher Haigh outlines the historiography of the reign of the first Elizabeth.