For those with under-utilised econometrics software, and an eye for applying the latest developments in economic theory, the inter-war years continue to offer a rich seam of research possibilities: time-series data in abundance (if not quality); policy problems which are recognisably modern; and neat temporal boundaries - in short, a self-contained period which is clearly 'history' but without being so far from the present as to be an entirely 'different country'. Thus in recent years the period, and the British case in particular, has become the testing ground for competing theories of macroeconomic fluctuations, with the consequence that the volume of literature has mushroomed, with some of it very technical indeed. All of this is very exciting, but it poses something of a challenge for those set to teach the economic history of the period, not least because, on the whole, in Britain economics undergraduates know no history while...