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1 Jun 2001Totalitarianism as a concept has made something of a comeback in recent years.
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1 Sep 1996Ernest Gellner, who died on 5 November 1995, was one of the great polymaths of the century. Many of his twenty books were concerned with philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Yet at the core of his work was an historical question.
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1 Jan 2009Russell, Conrad Sebastian Robert, Fifth Earl Russell (1937–2004)
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1 Nov 2011One could perhaps argue that, so far as the popular academic imagination is concerned, America has never had much of a reputation so far as historical theory goes.
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6 Nov 2020The sub-branch of history that is known by the ambiguous (and frightening to undergraduates, cats, and many mainstream academics) name “historiography” seems to be undergoing a Renaissance at the moment.