Social

Thomas Doherty examines a series of conflicts between left-wing artists and movie moguls at the time of Sergei Eisenstein's brief sojourn in Tinseltown in the 1930s.

John Horne looks at what lay behind allegations of brutality on both sides in the opening months of the Great War.

Roger Boase looks at a Spanish example of religious and ethnic cleansing.

Harold Perkin discusses the role of the extraction and distribution of surplus production in historical change, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century.

Alison Rowlands investigates the case of a 'child-witch' during the Thirty Years War.

Kenneth J. Baird examines change and continuity in 19th-century British social history.

The article that follows comes from True to Both My Selves, Katrin Fitzherbert's prize-winning history of her Anglo-German family. Spanning a century and two world wars, the book centres on three generations of women who each lived part of their lives as Germans and part as Britons, depending on the state of politics between the two countries.

Graham Noble illustrates Luther's anti-Jewish views and distinguishes them from those of the Nazis.

Roger Spalding examines the continuing controversy that surrounds one of the key figures in the history of the Labour Party.