http://standpointmag.co.uk/taxonomy/term/543 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://standpointmag.co.uk/living-history-january-february-12-books-of-the-ages-michael-burleigh-history-today <p><b>Author:</b>Michael Burleigh</p><p align="justify"> </p><p align="justify">I was one of the historians History Today magazine recently asked to choose their top history books of the last 60 years. Reading the editor's brief too cursorily, I picked Frederic William Maitland's Domesday Book and Beyond, published in 1897. In the related poll where readers chose their greatest historians, I was pleased that Fernand Braudel edged aside ghastly old Eric Hobsbawm, but there was something depressing about the contemporaneity of the choices. Isn't Robert Conquest a &quot;great historian&quot; for God's sake? So I am going to have another go at my favourite history books, sustenance for Standpoint readers in the dark months (and even darker times) ahead. </p><p><a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/living-history-january-february-12-books-of-the-ages-michael-burleigh-history-today"><span>read more</span></a></p> http://standpointmag.co.uk/living-history-january-february-12-books-of-the-ages-michael-burleigh-history-today#comments Living History History History Today Martin Malia Maurice Cowling Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:51:01 +0000 Frances Weaver 4301 at http://standpointmag.co.uk