Looking at History

    There are occasions when doing research that you come across something that you’ve always accepted and then find out you’ve been...

Those publications with an asterisk (*) were co-written with C.W. Daniels. This list does not include editorials for Teaching History , book...

Breaking the Habit: A Life of History , Richard Brown, Authoring History, 2016, 175 pp., £7.13, paper, ISBN 9781530295234   In this re...

Just Published Historians, it has been said, are rather like a good bottle of wine…they mature with age. Being seen as a rather crusty ...

I’ve been blogging regularly since July 2007 on my two blogs Looking at History and the History Zone, putting the posts I write on both.  B...

Australia and New Zealand ignore each other when telling their national stories. A research project at the University of Canterbury is seeki...

How much do we know or want to know about our pasts?  For the past half century, there has been a widespread discourse about western societ...

The most sophisticated expressions of the liberal interpretation of Australian history in the inter-war years were provided by R.M. ‘Max’ Cr...

I’m not sure whether it’s envy or snobbery or simply a desire to maintain their historical hegemony that leads ‘academic’ historians to lay...

As Christopher Daniels reminded me in his recent article on historical sources, it’s forty years since we wrote out first article on history...

It is hardly surprising in the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War that historians, politicians and countries are reappra...