Recent trends in university history University historians have little incentive to discover what goes on in school history classrooms and many disincentives, as pressures of work mount and the ogres of university management point to the overwhelming need to improve, or sustain, current Research Assessment Exercise grades. History is rarely flavour of month, still less the quinquennium, with University Vice-Chancellors since very few historians bring in the kinds of fat research overheads and lucrative consultancy partnerships which keep institutions afloat. In thrall to the bottom line, large numbers of history departments...