Brazil’s African Legacy
John Geipel on how the enforced diaspora of the slave trade shaped South America’s largest nation.
Social
An Eye-Witness to King Cromwell
Joad Raymond on a previously unpublished insight into the personality and projection of 'Lord Oliver' during Britain's unique 1650s experience.
The Contest for Social Science: Relations and Representations of Gender and Class
Sheila Rowbotham reviews two titles on aspects of social history
Buying Irish: Consumer Nationalism in 18th-century Dublin
Sarah Foster offers a fascinating account of how Irish identity, with its sectarian implications, asserted itself in the manufacture and purchase of luxury goods.
How The West Saw Medieval Islam
Casting Islam and Muslims as the enemy was crucial in the Crusades, and the context of conflict has colored Christian-Islamic relations since.
'Naming and Shaming' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Andy Croll on how publishing anti-social behaviour is a trick we have copied from the Victorians.
Faith in the Nation? The Church of England in the 20th Century
Lively laity, turbulent priests - Andrew Chandler on how the Anglican establishment has adapted to change in society and the body politic since 1900.
Labour Churches and Ethical Socialism
Onward Christian Socialists? Mark Bevir takes a timely look at a little-known phenomenon that was part of turn-of-the-century radicalism in Britain.
Taxation 1688-1914
Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.
The Women's Movement
Martin Pugh charts the Women's Movement's origins and growth 1850-1939.