Writings from Warsaw

Historian Samuel Kassow tells John Crace that by recording their life in the ghetto, Jews defied Nazi efforts to destroy them

Book of revelation

All children should be taught the Bible at school, says Andrew Motion. Without the great stories, they cannot hope to understand history and literature. Janet Murray reports

Meet the historical hoodies

New book by academic shows Manchester's historical precedent for knife crime and gangs, and may have some lessons for similar problems today

Michael Baxandall

Obituary: Influential art historian noted for his perspicacity and scholarly approach

David Daiches

Obituary: Prolific scholar and teacher whose works showed his mastery of literary criticism, history and culture.

Our fawning court historians

Hywel Williams: Prince Charles has been whispering to the assembled intelligentsia that history isn't quite how he'd like it.

A question of faith

When Eric Hobsbawn came to England in the 1930s he became a Marxist and began a distinguished academic career. His new autobiography reveals that at 85 he remains an 'unrepentant communist'. Maya Jaggi on the historian who made us fall in love with history again