Social

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.

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.