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Hannah Boston explains how a single piece of evidence contributes to a wider understanding.

Richard Wilkinson questions the motives of important historical figures, and of historians writing about them.

Frances Borzello seeks to explain the rise of women’s clubs in London before the First World War – and their equally swift demise.

Mark Bryant examines the wartime work of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, creator of the famous ‘Old Bill’ character.

F.G. Stapleton introduces the ‘weather vane ideology’.

Graham Noble separates fact from Tudor propaganda.

Anthea Gerrie describes a museum that is also in itself a historical record of a city’s development.

Martin Pugh argues that life during the interwar years was brighter than has often been suggested, in spite of its association with economic depression and the rise of Fascism.

 In 1909 Beatrice Webb produced a controversial report which proposed abolishing the stigma and penury of the Poor Law and its workhouses. James Gregory argues that this plea for a less judgemental approach to poverty created the foundations of the modern Welfare State.

Richard Sugg searches history to explain the phenomenon of aggressive cannibalism, following recent allegations from Iraq.