Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Brian Young -- Intellectual history in English academic life: reflections on a revolution / John W. Burrow -- Intellectual history in Britain / Brian Young -- Literary and intellectual history / Abigail Williams -- Intellectual history and the history of art / Lucy Hartley -- The intellectual history of the Middle Ages / Mishtooni Bose -- Intellectual history and the history of political thought / Richard Whatmore -- Intellectual history and the history of science / James Livesey -- Medicine, science and intellectual history / Deborah Madden -- Intellectual, social and cultural history: ideas in context / Brian Cowan -- Gender and intellectual history / Rachel Foxley -- The politics of intellectual history in twentieth-century Europe / Duncan Kelly.