Articles by subject: history
- Book review: History and the Enlightenment by Hugh Trevor-Roper (by Jonathan Rée, May/June 2010 )
- Hugh Trevor-Roper mocked religion but he never underestimated it, nor did he succumb to the fashionable over-estimation of the Enlightenment, says Jonathan Rée
- Thinkers: Voltaire (by Ian Davidson, May/June 2010 )
- Fame and fortune allowed the great 18th-century writer to challenge the powers of the state, says Ian Davidson
- The New Old World by Perry Anderson (by Stephen Howe, March/April 2010 )
- Stephen Howe on Perry Anderson's monumental analysis of Europe
- Welcome back Uncle Joe (by Michael Binyon, January/February 2010 )
- Russia’s ‘efficient manager’ is being written back into official history, reports Michael Binyon
- Testament by Jean Meslier (by Colin Brewer, January/February 2010 )
- Colin Brewer admires the last testament of an atheist priest
- Living the life (by Fred Inglis, November/December 2009 )
- Should philosophers practise what they preach? And if so, who would deserve a contemporary nomination? asks Fred Inglis
- Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon (by Louise Foxcroft, November/December 2009 )
- Louise Foxcroft finds a portrait of famous hypochondriacs really hits a nerve
- The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan (by Stephen Howe, November/December 2009 )
- Stephen Howe on a new history of the Arabs
- The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank (by Brenda Maddox, September/October 2009 )
- Brenda Maddox visits the grubby side of Georgian London with Dan Cruickshank
- God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam (by Nina Power, July/August 2009 )
- Nina Power on a good Dark Ages argument made for the wrong reasons
- The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer (by Louise Foxcroft, July/August 2009 )
- Louise Foxcroft is perplexed by a book that squeezes the life out of the Black Death
- Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music by Greg Milner (by Andrew Mueller, July/August 2009 )
- Andrew Mueller appreciates a note-perfect history of recorded music
- Truth matters (by David Aaronovitch, May/June 2009 )
- Conspiracy theories can be hilarious, but reality is a better story says David Aaronovitch
- Freedom's foghorn (by Roger Davidson, May/June 2009 )
- Roger Davidson marks the 200th anniversary of the passing of Tom Paine, an inspirational ego
- South Africa's Brave New World by RW Johnson (by Stephen Howe, May/June 2009 )
- Stephen Howe on a monumental, snarling study of post-apartheid South Africa
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (by Philip Womack, May/June 2009 )
- Philip Womack is blown away by Hilary Mantel's historical epic
- On the trail of the red pilgrims (by Caspar Melville, March/April 2009 )
- The philosopher Michail Ryklin tells Caspar Melville what really motivated communism's faithful followers
- Editorial: Puzzling history (by Caspar Melville, March/April 2009 )
- Would life be better if we knew all the answers?
- Why Socrates Died by Robin Waterfield (by Jenny Bunker, March/April 2009 )
- Jenny Bunker never quite learns what really killed Socrates
- Darwin's journey (by Ruth Padel, January/February 2009 )
- For poet Ruth Padel the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great scientist is more than a historical milestone, it’s a family celebration
- The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior by Paul Strathern (by Brenda Maddox, January/February 2009 )
- Brenda Maddox enjoys some Renaissance history
- Stop Me If You've Heard This by Jim Holt (by Natalie Haynes, September/October 2008 )
- Natalie Haynes is not amused by a new study of humour
- Manifestos for the 21st Century (by Caroline Moorehead, September/October 2008 )
- Caroline Moorehead reviews an impressive new series on censorship
- God's Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú (by Stephen Howe, September/October 2008 )
- Stephen Howe on a new history of Cromwell's Irish adventure
- The genius myth: Laurie Taylor interviews Lisa Jardine (by Laurie Taylor, July/August 2008 )
- Lisa Jardine tells Laurie Taylor why she believes in doubt, precision and uncertainty
- Writing on the wall (by Daniel Miller, May/June 2008 )
- Henri Lefebvre, the theoretician of the Paris uprising of 1968, saw that society’s most profound truths were etched on everyday life, discovers Daniel Miller
- The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb (by Stephen Howe, May/June 2008 )
- Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history
- A Tsar is born (by Sally Feldman, March/April 2008 )
- As a new theatrical tribute to Catherine the Great opens in Russia, Sally Feldman wonders what Putin’s people will make of the Empress of the Enlightenment
- The closing of the Christian mind (by Charles Freeman, January/February 2008 )
- In the late fourth century political expediency led a ruthless Roman emperor to shut down debate within the Christian church. Charles Freeman explains
- From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience Since 1975 by Mark Garnett (by Stephen Howe, September/October 2007 )
- Stephen Howe is bored with apathy
- Springtime for Hitler (by Roger Griffin, July/August 2007 )
- The hidden art of the Third Reich, argues Roger Griffin, betrays uncomfortable links with more radical modernism
- The Condor's Head by Ferdinand Mount (by Philip Womack, July/August 2007 )
- Philip Womack enjoys a meeting of old and new worlds
- Be tolerant or else (by Eliane Glaser, May/June 2007 )
- Eliane Glaser challenges a core British value
- Napoleon in Egypt by Paul Strathern (by Michael Binyon, May/June 2007 )
- In 1789 Napoleon set off to conquer the East. We're still living with the fallout, says Michael Binyon
- Piss, shit and blood (by Martin Rowson, January/February 2007 )
- In laying bare the entrails of 18th-century society, claims Martin Rowson, Hogarth was the first modern journalist
- Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum (by Michael Binyon, January/February 2007 )
- Michael Binyon visits the Victorian spritualists with Deborah Blum
- Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi with Leonardo de Benedetti (by Stan Cohen, November/December 2006 )
- Stan Cohen on Primo Levi's report from the death camps
- Non-Violence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky (by AC Grayling, November/December 2006 )
- AC Grayling explores the history of non-violence
- Down to Earth (by Brian Morris, September/October 2006 )
- Murray Bookchin, who died this summer, was the last of the great social ecologists. His ideas are more relevant than ever, says Brian Morris
- The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World by Patrick Dillon (by Michael Binyon, September/October 2006 )
- The Glorious Revolution was neither, says Michael Binyon
- Capital stuff (by Toby Saul, July/August 2006 )
- Francis Wheen brings the same panache to his new book that he brought to his excellent biography of Mar, says Toby Saul
- Fairy story (by Martina Evans, July/August 2006 )
- Martina Evans reviews a new book about Bridget Cleary who was burned as a witch just over a century ago
- Sons of Ulster (by Newton Emerson, January/February 2006 )
- Newton Emerson on a new history of Ulster
- Notes from the Blasphemy Depot (by Editorial Staff, November/December 2005 )
- History is much on our minds this issue. This month we celebrate our 120th birthday.
- Searching for secular Islam (by Ziauddin Sardar, September/October 2004 )
- Ziauddin Sardar proposes new ways to separate religion and politics in the Muslim world
- Imperial Catastrophe (by Michael Mann, January/February 2004 )
- Michael Mann, the leading historian of power, forecast the failure of the American adventure in Iraq. So what should happen next?
- Austere Communist (by Jonathan Rée, Winter 2002 )
- Eric Hobsbawm's life, review by Jonathan Rée
- History and the Enterprise of Knowledge (by Amartya Sen, Summer 2001 )
- Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the battleground of history
- Darwin's treasure trove (by Paul Sims, Web Exclusive, April 2008)
- As the great man’s private papers are made available for free online, project director John van Wyhe tells Paul Sims what’s in store for Darwin aficionados


