This book uncovers the wealth of philosophical problems that history presents, and encourages further thought on how these issues grow out of historical questions. Its focus on the convergence of history, philosophy and social science makes it ideal for use on undergraduate courses in philosophy of history and philosophy of social science.

Beginning with an energetic and lucid discussion covering traditional issues such as epistemology and metaphysics, the author continues to explore in more detail the current debates surrounding philosophical issues of concern to both history and the social sciences. Tackling a wide range of topics such as truth, objectivity, explanation, communication and narrative, gender, deconstruction and postmodernism, the book affords students in philosophy and social science departments a deeper and wider perspective on the philosophical problems within their areas of study.

This book uncovers the wealth of philosophical problems that history presents, and encourages further thought on how these issues grow out of historical questions. Its focus on the convergence of history, philosophy and social science makes it ideal for use on undergraduate courses in philosophy of history and philosophy of social science.

Beginning with an energetic and lucid discussion covering traditional issues such as epistemology and metaphysics, the author continues to explore in more detail the current debates surrounding philosophical issues of concern to both history and the social sciences. Tackling a wide range of topics such as truth, objectivity, explanation, communication and narrative, gender, deconstruction and postmodernism, the book affords students in philosophy and social science departments a deeper and wider perspective on the philosophical problems within their areas of study.

"A Companion to the Study of History" guides students through all the historical concepts, theories, methods and problems confronting those engaged in the serious study of history. It distinguishes between history as action and history as narrative and illuminates the vital interplay between understanding and doing in a lively and accessible manner.

The author covers the nature of history, questions about action and meaning, views of the past, history as discourse, narrative and knowledge, the use of evidence, causation and event, theories of history and also a wide variety of recent theoretical perspectives and schools of thought.

Nicholas Talbot is in flight: the Elizabethan gentleman-spy and entrepreneur must outwit his enemy Mowbray, recently escaped from the Tower, and ensure that playwright Christopher Marlowe, secretly returned from Europe, isn't recognized by those who've long thought him dead. As Marlowe's "Hamlet" debuts to rapturous applause, Nicholas' world is in danger of collapse. Intrigue at the Scottish and Elizabethan courts makes his life ever-more perilous as he yearns to return to his wife Rosalyne, and his other love--the theatre.

Nick runs away from his tyrannical guardian with a troupe of travelling players who bring him to London, a hotbed of political & sexual intrigue. Nick comes to the attention of Christopher Marlowe & so begins a partnership that puts Nick at the centre of a ring of actors, writers, spies & power-mongers, in which he must survive. Myrrha Stanford-Smith was born and brought up in Brighton. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and worked in professional theatre and as a teacher before retiring to the Isle of Anglesey, where she founded Ucheldre Repetory Company. The Great Lie is her first novel.