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Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England.

In recent decades few fields of historical inquiry have produced as rich a body of work as the British Civil Wars.

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

Fifty years on from Winston Churchill’s death, Chris Wrigley surveys the literature available, highlighting key works and lesser-known titles.