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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.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of ‘Martin Guerre’.

As our 60th anniversary year nears its conclusion we asked distinguished historians to choose their favourite works of history produced in the last 60 years

Paul Dukes surveys how historians of 1900 viewed their pasts and the prospects of the 20th century.

Victoria Schofield surveys the land Columbus did not visit and finds societies on the move.

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

How the collapse of the world he knew and loved in 1914 later made the promising young scholar and diplomat into one of the most extraordinary and controvers

Historians ask what constitutes the history of the developing world.

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