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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...

A Few Bad Apples

Sarah Wise | Published in History Today Volume 70 Issue 8 August 2020

Brutality, corruption and abuses of power in the Metropolitan Police at the turn of the 20th century led to an inquiry – but no reform.