Images of the Nineteenth-Century Nurse
Anne Summers looks at the status of one of the few professions open to women.
Volume 34 Issue 12 December 1984
The Dark Side of Samuel Johnson
Roy Porter discusses the life of the 18th-century essayist and critic.
Reading History: The Cold War
Paul Dukes analyses a number of books on the conflict.
Tolpuddle: The Making of the Martyrs
David Englander describes the 1834 events and their relevance for the future of labour.
The Origins of European Philhellenism
In Europe Philhellenism – the romantic desire arising from admiration of ancient Greece to further understanding of all things Greek – had its origins in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century.
Forum
Roderick Floud puts the case for the Retention of Personal Records
What is Military History?
Eight historians discuss a subject which has strong claims to be regarded as the oldest form of history.