The first History of Parliament was the brainchild of the maverick Labour backbencher Josiah Wedgwood, who invested his scheme with an ideological as well as a scholarly purpose. Described from Wedgwood’s viewpoint, the history of his History appears as a...
Academic history in the modern era has often been accused of being increasingly fragmented, with the proliferation of sub-disciplines and of ever more specific research within these. Yet ‘big’ histories of the sort pioneered by Fernand Braudel or William...
When I was doing my History A-level in the early 1990s we were still using John Elliott’s Imperial Spain 1469-1716, quite remarkably given that it was originally published in 1963.Assuming this reflected more on Elliott’s lasting domination of the field...
The events of 1688 have been seen by historians following in the footsteps of the Macaulay as a ‘preserving’ revolution, which allowed Britain to avoid the fate of France and its ‘destructive’ revolution of a century later.Following recent...
The History On-line April bibliographic update is now online. Browse the history books to be published between April-June 2010, or view the latest articles from the leading history journals.
This week (through total coincidence rather than any careful planning on my part I hasten to add) we have an interesting juxtaposition of two biographies and two works on religious history.It’s certainly difficult to draw any obvious parallels between the careers of...
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