Social

Andrew Boxer demonstrates the ways in which external events affected the struggles of African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.

Ben Sandell examines the origins, influence and significance of a group of often misunderstood radicals.

Richard Wilkinson finds much to enjoy in the opening volumes of a comprehensive new series on British social history.

Robert Pearce has been pleasantly surprised at the quality of a new textbook.

The legend of Mahatma Gandhi places his non-violent Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience, and Quit India movements at the heart of India’s independence. There's more to the story.

Lindsay Pollick reviews changing interpretations.

R. E. Foster sifts myth from reality in the life of the 'Lady with the Lamp'.

‘Have the authors of a two-penny weekly journal, a right to make a national inquiry'? 18th-century governments thought not and neither did the newspapers’ readers of the time.

History tells us that the West’s embrace of liberal values was not inevitable and is unlikely to last, says Tim Stanley.

The fools of the early Tudor court were likely to have been people with learning disabilities as a new project demonstrates, says Suzannah Lipscomb.