The lives and works of the earliest historians, the Greeks Herodotus in 450 BC, and later Thucydides, and the Romans Tacitus and Livy. Show more

Arab historians and the birth of Islam. By 730 AD Baghdad produced more narrative history than Europe, including by the writer Tabari. Show more

The Italian writer and playwright, Niccolo Machiavelli, whose History of Florence is seen as a landmark in the way history is written. Show more

Monsieur Voltaire and Mr Edward Gibbon, famous for The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, both railed against organised religion. Show more

In the middle ages, Gregory of Tours produced French history while the Venerable Bede gave us the story of Great Britain from 55 BC. Show more

Cover-ups through history, oral history, history on television, and what should a historian ideally be? Show more

Black historians from the early chroniclers of the black experience in the 19th century and black women historians speaking out. Show more

Female historians from Chinese Ban Zhoa in 45 AD, Mary Wollstonecraft and Madame de Stael, to female winners of the Pulitzer Prize. Show more

The Red historians, from Karl Marx, who suffered from boils, to the most famous of 20th century communists, Eric Hobsbawm. Show more

The Annales School and the magazine founded in 1929 in France where nothing would be out of bounds to the historians writing for it. Show more