‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce is a tender study of European rural life. But is this lost past closer than we think?
Peter Mandler
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston review
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston is a hyperreal account of Britain on the cusp of modernity.
Trust in Change
Historians and curators in heritage organisations, such as the National Trust, do not invent the past, they uncover it.
News from Otherwhere
Anthropology's rise in popularity challenged previous ways of thinking about human development.
Waging War in the Name of Anthropology
Peter Mandler explains how the anthropologist Margaret Mead, author of best-selling studies of ‘primitive’ peoples, became a major influence on US military thinking during the Second World War.
The New Internationalism
Global history has become a vigorous field in recent years, examining all parts of the empires of Europe and Asia and moving beyond the confines of ‘top-down’ diplomatic history, as Peter Mandler explains.
What is History for?
Peter Mandler argues that academic historians have a crucial contribution to make to the nation’s cultural life.