Historiography

Daniel Snowman asks whether historical biography can be considered a serious contribution to history and assesses the latest trends in the field.

From 1774 to 1827, writes Adrian Bury, the ordinary Englishman and woman were drawn from life by Rowlandson with incomparable industry and vigour.

World history is constantly being rewritten. Christopher Dawson here emphasizes the importance of the European contribution.

Andrew Lycett untangles the complex story of how the West’s involvement in Middle Eastern affairs has been interpreted by historians.

“How came it that so many important contemporaries took this ‘social butterfly’ so seriously?” John Gore, Creevey’s editor and biographer, re-examines the Whig memorialist’s contribution to late Georgian history.

In the mid-nineteenth century, writes Roger Howell, the eminent historian of Spain, Mexico and Peru paid a most successful visit to the British Isles.

Herbert Butterfield describes the origins of the Historical Association and its influence on the teaching of history in Britain.

Since the completion of the Marxist historian’s trilogy in 1987, history has changed, but in what ways?

Does the death of French medievalist Jacques Le Goff mark the end of an era in historical scholarship, asks Alexander Lee.

Liz James celebrates the Eastern Empire’s artistic heritage and its pivotal role in shaping Europe and the Islamic world of the Middle Ages.