Table of Contents

Introduction
David Cannadine (October 1998)
Eric Hobsbawm (January 1999)
Peter Burke (April 1999)
Theodore Zeldin (July 1999)
Asa Briggs (October 1999)
Eric Foner (January 2000)
John Keegan (May 2000)
Geoffrey Hosking (July 2000)
Antonia Fraser (October 2000)
David Starkey (January 2001)
Ian Kershaw (July 2001)
Roy Foster (October 2001)
Lyndal Roper (January 2002)
Christopher Dyer (May 2002)
Peter Stansky (July 2002)
Natalie Zemon Davis (October 2002)
Linda Colley (January 2003)
Orlando Figes (April 2003)
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (July 2003)
Lisa Jardine (October 2003)
Richard J. Evans (January 2004)
John Brewer (April 2004)
Simon Schama (July 2004)
Niall Ferguson (October 2004)
Laurence Rees (February 2005)
Jeremy Black (April 2005)
Norman Davies (July 2005)
John Morrill (October 2005)

Promotional Information

"The great strength of this collection ... is its variety... Snowman's snapshots of outstanding historians are always entertaining." - Jewish Chronicle "A curious element in the book is the occasional 'reply' by the subject of the pen portrait. These make fascinating reading, subtly correcting an undue emphasis in Snowman's account of their life while straining not to be immodest... It is in the replies that the best bits are found." - Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association

About the Author

Daniel Snowman is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK. Educated at Cambridge and Cornell, he was a Lecturer at Sussex University and went on to work for the BBC as Chief Producer, Features (Radio). His books have tended to cross conventional historiographical boundaries, from Kissing Cousins (1977), a comparative study of British and American social attitudes and values, to The Hitler Emigrés (2002), which examined the cultural impact of refugees from Nazism. The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera (2009) was a pioneering attempt to place the history of opera in its widest historical perspective.  

Reviews

'... [T]he great strength of this collection... is its variety... Snowman's snapshots of outstanding historians are always entertaining.' - Jewish Chronicle

'a curious element in the book is the occasional 'reply' by the subject of the pen portrait. These make fascinating reading, subtly correcting an undue emphasis in Snowman's account of their life while straining not to be immodest... It is in the replies that the best bits are found.' - Archives: The journal of the British Records Association