Nigel Jones

History must at least be readable if we’re to learn anything from it

Richard Cohen has little time for those academic historians who continue to write arid books seemingly only for each other

The historian A.J.P. Taylor in 1971. [Getty Images]
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  • Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

    Richard Cohen

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 753, £25

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