FC -- Bloomsbury Reader'S Guides -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Text -- Prologue -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A Note About Reading -- 1 Background to the text -- Text -- Contex -- Development -- Collingwood's idea of history: structural features -- 2 Collingwood's great discovery: The autonomy of history -- Realism -- History - is it art or science? -- The autonomy of history -- History and human purpose -- The inside/outside theory -- Human history -- What and why -- Re-enactment -- Inference -- History and imagination -- History and self-knowledge -- Conclusion -- 3 Arguing with Collingwood (I) -- The problem of re-enactment -- The problem of imagination in history -- The problem of historical evidence -- The problem of historical inference -- The logic of question and answer -- 4 Arguing with Collingwood (II) -- Past, present and future -- The limits of history: thoughts and feelings -- Past lives -- Facts and fictions -- History, politics and progress -- 5 Receptions and reactions -- Reception -- Reviews -- Reactions -- Influences and affinities -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Index.