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A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.

Frank McDonough looks at the old question of whether history is made by great individuals or impersonal forces.

It is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four distinguished scholars consider its value – and its future. 

The contribution of the witnesses from the Battle of Algiers to the debate on contemporary history.

From Garotters to Peaky Blinders: is youth ‘not what it used to be’?

The Korean peninsula was a chessboard on which the fates of great powers were decided.