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Viv Sanders puts an inspiring figure, and an important event, into historical perspective.

Margaret Walsh tracks down an attempt to link the appeal of the greyhound with the brand values of a famous American company.

Mike Huggins revisits the early years of British greyhound racing, the smart modern sports craze of interwar Britain.

Derek Wilson samples two works on the arts in Stuart England.

Charles Townshend has read hundreds of 'witness statements' from the men and women who took part in the Easter Rising, made available to the public in 2003 after decades in a government vault.

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her youthful patriotism and vigorous activism.

Richard Ballard looks at how events in the opening years of the French Revolution took shape in a town three days’ journey from Paris.

Richard Cavendish marks the founding of a famous Victorian penitentiary, on March 20th, 1806.

The Theosophists Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins and others went to India at the end of the 19th century to search for God and universal brotherhood in the Hindu tradition. They also ended up supporting women’s rights against contemporary Hindu practices. Mark Bevir explores the tensions between their fascination with traditional culture and the reforming zeal of their proto-feminism.