It does not need a prophet to see that a more dynamic relationship between print and electronic media is both a need and a possibility for the next ten years of school history. At the moment, however, history is a book-based subject. Books matter. Teachers use them and are keen judges of them. How good books are affects, quite significantly, how good teaching and learning are in history. Indeed, some people would argue that books have more influence on the development of learning in history classrooms than most...