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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

‘Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes’ by Virginia Nicholson review

Juliet Gardiner | Published in History Today Volume 65 Issue 9 September 2015

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.

Plant Imperialism

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

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