View apt history

Show recently installed packages 

grep "install " /var/log/dpkg.log

Show recently upgraded packages 
grep "upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log 

Show recently removed packages 
grep "remove " /var/log/dpkg.log 

To view info from old log files use zgrep instead grep

zgrep "upgrade " /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz