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John Strachan looks at women and advertising in late Georgian England.

Richard Wilkinson is impressed by a new study of the women’s movement.

Mark Rathbone looks at the role of the Supreme Court in the history of civil rights in the USA from 1865 onwards.

Tim Black seeks to understand the origins of antisemitism, looking beyond the Holocaust to the ancient Middle East and medieval Europe.

Edward Falshaw advises how our study of this important period can match the examiners’ agenda.

Angela McShane Jones asks what depictions in broadsides of Mary II with her breasts exposed, tell us about 17th-century popular attitudes to royalty.

Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

Michael Lynch takes a fresh look at the key reform of 19th-century Russia – the end of Serfdom.