Britain

Since the 1860s Women's History has sought to recapture the experiences of a previously submerged half of the population. Sarah Newman looks to the feminist struggle to overcome prejudice and win the most basic right of all.

Frank McDonough reviews the debate over Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy.

Lesley Hall looks at sexuality as a recent recruit to historical studies – and at more than a century of argument and evasion

Richard Cavendish trawls through the exhibits to examine the legacy of the city's whaling and fishing industry.

He marketed himself as a man of principle - a public image of which David Eastwood exposes the inaccuracy.

David Nash considers a cause celebre that tested tensions between pious tradition and a 'progressive' age.

Abigail Beach looks at constructing communities in the first half of the century

Martin Daunton argues that Labour's commitment to public ownership owed little to socialism and more to circumstances at the end of the First World War.

Jeffrey Green describes the impact of a troupe of six 'dwarf savages' and what it reveals about social and racial attitudes of the time.

Sue Harper reveals how a swashbuckling tale of gypsy romance opens an unexpected window on 1940s women in Britain.