Further Reading

Keith Jenkins – Re-thinking History, Routledge, (1991). 70 pages of polemic that has produced a wide-range of often very emotional responses from the historical community. As a student, I loved the informal, idiosyncratic style; most people I know hate it.

John Warren – History and Historians, Hodder and Stoughton, (1999). A wonderfully concise history of history, very accessible; includes a very clear, relatively sympathetic overview of recent developments in the study of what is history?

Richard J Evans – In Defence of History, Granta Books, (1997). A highly respected historian takes time out to research and take seriously the post-modern attack on history. This is his often brilliant response.

David Lowenthal – The Past is a Foreign Country, Cambridge, (1985). A highly entertaining book that provides an encyclopaedic overview of how the past is used and abused and interestingly, why?

Margaret Macmillan – The Uses and Abuses of History, Profile Books (2009). Based on a series of recent lectures given by the widely respected Canadian historian, provides many good up-to-date examples of uses and abuses.

Mark Donnelly and Claire Norton - Doing History, Routledge, (2011) Published just after I finished writing this chapter. Brilliantly serves the same purpose as this site but designed for history students at university.