Each age, we are often told, rewrites the past in its own image. In the case of the French Revolution, this is an understatement. In the second half of this century the scholarship has seemed to be in a state of almost permanent revolution as historians have taken up one interpretative or methodological approach after another. My main concern in this essay is to draw attention to important developments which have occurred in the scholarship on the Revolution as a whole.
John Dunne signposts main landmarks and current directions in the historiographical debate. (History Today)
