Historian on the Edge

Here  is a wonderful piece by David Mitchell which critiques in actually quite even-handed way government policy towards the public sector a...

Thanks for the comments posted so far, and made in conversation, which have been most useful.   They have, not least, made me realise that ...

... Professors Mark Humphries and Ian Wood, representing late antique and early medieval history on the list of threatened resignations fro...

Since I have received some personal abuse based on the post below, might I make the following points clear (I shouldn't have to, I know...

[ This is a rough attempt to sketch out an argument about the ethics of history.  It takes its starting point from the work of Albert Camus...

You might have been following my intermittent reports on the campaign to get the AHRC to drop its repeated mention of 'The Big Society...

For any of you who are either native German speakers or at least have better German than I do. Leopold von Ranke: wie er eigentlich gew...