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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...

Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children gather around a Christmas tree, December 1848. Webster Museum. Public Domain.

The First Christmas Tree

Alison Barnes | Published in History Today Volume 56 Issue 12 December 2006

Contrary to myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain.