“…The intellectual movement known as the 'new social history' that had burst on the scene in the 1960s and then developed through the 1970s and into the 1980s, has had little impact in Greece. 36 'New social history' revolutionised western historiography and opened up entirely new vistas for historical research. For instance, family history, urban history, rural history, microhistory, the histories of everyday life, of emotions, of childhood, of poverty, of crime and violence, of material culture, of collective action, of sex and sexuality became subjects of enquiry, many for the first time.…”