History Today

History with the people left out? Arid quantification? Or study of the essential motivating force of society? Six historians answer.

It may have lacked the newsworthy drama of the earlier acts, but the Reform legislation of 1884-85 wrought 'great organic changes in the British constitution', writes Paul Adelman.

Christopher Abel and Colin M. Lewis analyse the state of history writing on Latin America, from a 1980s standpoint.

Recent events have provoked disquiet about the concept of diplomatic immunity: in the early eighteenth century, the British government was considerably less fastidious in its definition.

Ronald Hutton on erotica and morality through history

Stephen Trombley on the study of language and ancient texts.

Kathleen Burk discusses the publishing of history books.

Douglas Johnson on a French village’s attempts to honour its local history.

David Cannadine on the changing nature of British history in the US