Power Dressing in Ancient Greece and Rome
Jeri DeBrohun looks at the meanings expressed in the style of clothes and personal adornment adopted by men and women in the ancient world.
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Whiteness in Crisis: 20th Century Racial Tension
Alistair Bonnett identifies the ingredients that produced an 'identity crisis' for white people in the early 20th century.
Russia's First Revolution
John Morison shows how an accumulation of grievances resulted in a spontaneous revolution in Russia in 1905.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
Michael Morrogh explains the significance of Lloyd George's answer to the Irish question.
Prohibition in the United States
Jenny Bryce asks why the Americans introduced the 18th Amendment when the historical evidence suggested it was doomed to failure. This essay won the Julia Wood prize in 2000.
From Old to New Poor Law
Graham Goodlad considers the background to the reform of the Poor Law in 1834 and its impact on society.
Lebensraum - Policy or Propaganda?
What did Hitler mean by Lebensraum? Did he attempt to translate theory into reality? Martyn Housden 'unpacks' the term and puts it into historical context.
Portrait Of Britain: 1600
John Miller describes the state of the British kingdoms as James Stewart waits to become monarch of the entire archipelago.
Sex and Sensibility at the British Museum
David Gaimster reveals the origins and contents of the British Museum's Secretum, a hidden repository of artefacts deemed pornographic and unfit for public gaze by Victorian curators.
Portrait Of Britain: 1500
Steven Gunn looks at the condition of Britain at the beginning of the Tudor era, and finds a society that was increasingly cohesive, confident and cosmopolitan.