History Matters

Clothes in early modern England could quite literally be to die for.

Leaked photographs of colonial atrocities during the Malayan ‘Emergency’ shocked postwar Britain.

The author of the quaint, but much-loved Ladybird books was also a radical playwright.

Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian independence, became an unlikely star of the Victorian London stage.

Alcohol was an integral part of diplomacy in early modern Russia.

In the 1950s Mills & Boon’s medical romances helped make the NHS more appealing to an ambivalent British public. 

Mississippi’s governors have had a unique approach to prison labour and prisoner rehabilitation. 

How did women experience warfare in early medieval Britain?

The extraordinary insurrections of Gustave Paul Cluseret.