Contents
Foreword to the 2020 edition
Foreword to the 2009 edition
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Robert Evans, ‘The Creighton century: British historians and Europe, 1907–2007’
R. B. Haldane, ‘The meaning of truth in history’ (1913), with an introduction by Justin Champion
R. W. Seton-Watson, ‘A plea for the study of contemporary history’ (1928), with an introduction by Martyn Rady
R. H. Tawney, ‘The economic advance of the squirearchy in the two generations before the Civil War’ [published as ‘The rise of the gentry, 1558–1640’] (1937), with an introduction by F. M. L. Thompson
Lucy Sutherland, ‘The City of London and the opposition to government, 1768–74: a study in the rise of metropolitan radicalism’ (1958), with an introduction by P. J. Marshall
Joseph Needham, ‘The guns of Kaifêng-Fu: China’s development of man’s first chemical explosive’ (1979), with an introduction by Janet Hunter
Keith Thomas, ‘The perception of the past in early modern England’ (1983), with an introduction by Ariel Hessayon
Donald Coleman, ‘Myth, history and the Industrial Revolution’ (1989), with an introduction by Julian Hoppit
Ian Nish, ‘The uncertainties of isolation: Japan between the wars’ (1992), with an introduction by Antony Best
Eric Hobsbawm, ‘The present as history: writing the history of one’s own time’ (1993), with an introduction by Virginia Berridge
R. I. Moore, ‘The war against heresy in medieval Europe’ (2004), with an introduction by Jinty Nelson