Neither the idea that Britain 'stood alone'in 1940, nor that the British war was a 'people's
war', were at all common during the Second World War. If anything was thought to be 'alone' …

As a proclaimed field of study 'The History of British Political Thought'provides cover for a
certain degree of ambiguity. Traditionally, of course, within the field of history,'British'has …

As the twentieth century draws to an end there are signs that historians are finally beginning
to acknowledge that modern British history no longer comes to a grinding halt in 1914 or, at …

When this journal, was first launched in 1987 (as Contemporary Record) contemporary
British history was a research field still in its infancy. There was indeed a perception in some …

Historians of Britain commonly treat the inter-war period as a single unit. There are
nonetheless three reasons for regarding 1931 as a major turning-point in British history. In …

This book explores the continuous British fascination with the American Civil War from the
1870s to the present. Analysing the War's place in British political discourse, military writing …

It is a pleasure to be here on this occasion, to celebrate Gareth Stedman Jones's work
together with the festschrift edited by David Feldman and Jon Lawrence that is being …

Britain since 1945 is the established textbook on contemporary British political history since
the end of the Second World War. David Childs' authoritative chronological survey discusses …

This book is about the British experience of the First World War, the way that experience was
represented, in different media, and how those representations fed into the broader …

In analyzing the role of the United States in the cold war, historians continue to fall more or
less into two camps,'traditionalist'and'revisionist'. In the most general terms, traditionalist …