Preface: Narrative and Discipline
Chapter 1. Every Schoolboy Knows: Publishing the Narrative of England's Liberty, 1850-1863
The Life Cyel of the History-Book Reader
The Agency of the Publisher
Tension between Professional and Popular Accounts of the Past
History Books as Material Objects
Nursery Histories and Their Competition
New Editions of Old Titles
Chapter 2. Quality and Profit: New Histories of England, 1863-1880
Alexander MacMillan and the Historians
The Clarendon Press (Oxford) and the Historians
The Pitt Press (Cambridge) and the Historians
Chapter 3. Breaking the Drowsy Spell of Narrative, 1880-1914
Seeley and the Reading Public
Browning and the Publishers
New Formats for History: Periodicals and Series
Acton and the Cambridge Modern History
New Blood at Oxford
Chapter 4. Historians and Publishers in an Age of War and Revolution, 1914-1929
Revisions and Reiterations
Ernest Barker at Oxford
Belligerents and Ex-Belligerents, A Series
Imagining an Oxford History of England
More Histories at Cambridge
The Cambridge Collaborative Histories
The Power Sisters and Cambridge Histories for Children
London Publishers 1914-1929
Chapter 5. Knowledge in the Marketplace, 1930-1950
The Cambridge Collaborative Histories
History from the Oxford University Press
History Books: Text, Object, Context
Epilogue: History, Out of Print
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