Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern... Læs mere
A brave, disciplined book about longing; not sexual longing as such but the endless longing of the under-privileged that history (and life) be different from what it has been and what it still is' John Berger
What is the point of poetry for historians? The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden’s Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day. -- .
By tracing the evolution of a policed society through the agency of local police forces, the book, first... Læs mere
First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’, written after his retirement in 1881.... Læs mere