Social

In the aftermath of 1798 the British had to deal with thousands of political prisoners. Michael Durey traces the mixture of decisiveness, pragmatism and clemency with which they were treated.

Britain's working-class Chartist movement organised a mass meeting at Kennington Common on April 10th, 1848.

Brian Ward, author of a new book on the links between Rhythm and Blues music and the Civil Rights movement, tells of Martin Luther King’s little-known experiences as a recording artist.

John Morrill re-examines a stormy period of religious history.

Clive Emsley argues that nineteenth-century perceptions owed more to media-generated panic than to criminal realities.

Christopher Ray queries the accepted pictures of a reluctant victim of forces beyond her control.  

Charles Esdaile explores grass roots opposition to Napoleonic rule, the forms it took and how the empire fought back.

Michael Broers explores the measures and restrictions imposed by Napoleon on his many subjects and how, within the boundaries of the Empire, they responded to his rule.

Mariya Sevela gathers oral recollections from the people of Karafuto, a Japanese colony on the island of Sakhalin from 1905 until the arrival of the Soviet army forty years later.

Gareth Affleck identifies the points to discuss.