Social

F.G. Stapleton examines the momentous social and political consequences of Germany's spectacular economic growth.

The essay entitled 'How important was the press in the desacralisation of the French monarchy in 1789?', by Olivia Grant of St Paul's Girls' School, was awarded the Julia Wood Prize out of 136 entries. An edited version appears below; a second award was made to Richard Eschwege of City of London School for an essay on Pope Gregory VII.

Graham Noble investigates the causes of the rise and fall of French Protestantism.

John Stuart Mill saw the enfranchisement of women as 'the most important of all political movements' on the road to the equality of the sexes.

Keith M. Brown on the Scottish nobility in the early modern period.

Keith Robbins reviews a new book discussing what it means to be British in the 20th century.

Tim Grady explores life for the teachers and students in a Bavarian university in the 1920s and 1930s.

William Clarance explores the origins and complexities of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Juliet Gardiner assesses the worth of ‘television history’ and pinpoints the value of ‘reality history’.

Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.