Poirot or Scheherazade?
Are historians inevitably faced with a choice between academic analysis or popular narrative, or should they aim to master both skills, asks Suzannah Lipscomb.
What sort of history should historians write today, especially if they write books for a thinking lay audience, such as the readership of History Today?
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