Overture : the new history, its past and its future / Peter Burke -- History from below / Jim Sharpe -- Women's history / Joan Scott -- Overseas history / Henk Wesseling -- On microhistory / Giovanni Levi -- Oral history / Gwyn Prins -- History of reading / Robert Darnton --History of images / Ivan Gaskell -- History of political thought / Richard Tuck -- History of the body / Roy Porter -- History of events and the revival of narrative / Peter Burke.