History Matters

How has The Beano’s Dennis the Menace survived the rise of television, increased cultural consumption and the digital age? 

Realising the world was changing around them, the Qing government began sending students abroad.

Driven to extremes by the expectations loaded on them, some men turned to self-castration. 

The Covid pandemic seems to have caused a birth dearth. Historically, how have countries responded to falling birthrates?

Women and the birth of England’s stock market.

The long history of no man’s land, from lawlessness and desolation to hope and regrowth.

How events in British India were leveraged in the debate over slavery.

The spiritual power of medieval relics meant that Jerusalem, or a dragon, could be remade anywhere.

A global trade in feathers, with London at its heart, saw hundreds of millions of birds killed every year. Emily Williamson waged a long and furious campaign against it.