Social

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.

F.G. Stapleton defends the record of Italian governments from 1861 to 1914.

Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

Christine Lalumia sees the 1840s as the key moment in the creation of the modern celebration of Christmas.