Birth of Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, the most famous historian of his time, was born on St Crispin's Day, October 25th, 1800.
Historiography
Asa Briggs
Daniel Snowman meets the co-founder of the University of Sussex and doyen of Victorian history.
Postmodernism and the Study of History
In defending the study of history, Richard J Evans argues that the extreme exponents of Postmodernism are Emperors with No Clothes.
Fifty Years of Rewriting the French Revolution
John Dunne signposts main landmarks and current directions in the historiographical debate.
Maps and History
Jeremy Black shows how historical atlases have for centuries recorded more than objective fact.
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.