Social

Susan C. Shapiro describes how a struggle for women’s liberation began about 1580 and continued in Jacobean years.

The Dissenting Academies, write M.D. Stephens and G.W. Roderick, offered wider and better teaching than the established universities in England.

Europe knew little about black Africa, writes Steven R. Smith, until the trading voyages of the late sixteenth century.

At the end of the sixteenth century, writes David N. Durant, an ostentatious but simple-minded German Duke began pestering Queen Elizabeth to grant him the noblest of all English Orders.

The term ‘Chimurenga’ has various historical associations. It was originally used to describe the first rising against British rule of the 1890s; the Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s is known as the Second Chimurenga. J.V. Woolford, writing as the Bush War was ongoing, puts the term in context.

Dianne Ebertt Beeaff explains the disappearance from view of Anglo-Saxon family names from modern English life.

Priest, poet and journalist, Blanco White escaped from Spain in 1810. Martin Murphy describest his last thirty years, spent in London, Oxford, Dublin and Liverpool.

George Russo describes how this enlightened priest undertook a double task - to convince the Australian government of its responsibilities and accustom the aborigines to modern life.

Stanley H. Palmer describes how, in an era before “the Peelers,” the army and a radical mob clashed in the streets of London on the occasion of Queen Caroline’s funeral.