Alun Munslow’s The New History is a challenge to the idea that history can ever be neutral.

Writing in the early 2000s, at a moment when postmodernism had already destabilised the authority of grand narratives, Munslow asks a simple but unsettling question: what if history is not the recovery of the past, but the construction of it?

Moving through debates around empiricism, narrative form, and the role of the historian, he pulls apart the assumption that facts speak for themselves. Instead, history emerges here as a practice—shaped by language, perspective, and the demands of storytelling. What looks like a record becomes, on closer inspection, an argument.

It’s a compact, clear entry into historiography’s fault lines, where truth, narrative, and power begin to blur.

First published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited. Very good condition: clean, tight binding with no markings observed. Covers show light general shelf wear; pages crisp and unmarked. A well-kept copy of a foundational introductory text on historiography.