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Sea Bathing at Margate

Martin Stanton | Published in History Today Volume 33 Issue 7 July 1983

Martin Stanton shows that to take a dip in the sea at Margate is to take part in a long historical process with cultural, sexual, medical, economic and socia

Plant Imperialism

Lucile Brockway | Published in History Today Volume 33 Issue 7 July 1983

Coffee from Ethiopia to Brazil, rubber from Brazil to Malaya...

HMS Beagle surveys the coasts of South America. Painting by Conrad Martens

The Descent of Genius: Charles Darwin's Brilliant Career

Roy Porter | Published in History Today Volume 32 Issue 7 July 1982

What were the origins of Charles Darwin's particular species of genius?