Social

Naomi Mitchinson on the complex linguistic legacies of the travelling people.

Rayner Heppenstall uses the examples of Britain and Ireland to argue against absolutist views of race and nation.

Rayner Heppenstall highlights the problems inherent in divisions of British and Irish history along racial lines.

Quentin Bell unveils deeper meanings from the ever-evolving history of fashion and fancy dress.

C.H.N. Routh records the travels and travails of the Boer pioneers

Quentin Bell looks at the revolutions at work within fashion over the years, rational and otherwise.

H.G. Nicholas asks whether Dickens' portrayal of the USA of the 1840s, found in Martin Chuzzlewit, is a fair one.

In the second of a two part series, G.D.H. Cole analyses and compares several sets of census data to guage an accurate portrait of class demographics in Britain.

D.W. Brogan pays a historical visit to the city of light in the first half of the twentieth century.

Celebration of Christmas was curtailed by England’s Puritan republic but the methods and results varied considerably.