Writing History is Designed to Provide the Necessary Material for General Courses in Historiography, Identifying in Turn the Evolution of 'Traditional' Approaches, the Challenge of the 'Linguistic Turn', and Contemporary Perspectives That Inform Our Current Understandings. Whether Writing On, Say, the Annales School or on Psychoanalytical History, Contributors to the Volume Provide an Interpretative Essay Rather Than Just a Straightforward Summary. And, in an Area Where Abstraction All Too Often Breeds Bewilderment, Theory is Always Closely Linked to the Practice of Historical Writing.