An occasional series mapping the development of historical writing and scholarship from earliest times.

Before the Greeks – Assyria and Persia

The Greeks – Herodotus (part I)

The Greeks – Herodotus (part II)

The Greeks – Thucydides (part I)

The Greeks – Thucydides (part II)

Edward Gibbon – his life and work

Edward Gibbon – political and intellectual context