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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.

David Bates examines a Tudor Christmas Fare at Hampton Court Palace.

Marika Sherwood trawls contemporary reports of the anti-Catholic protests that rocked London in June 1780 to reveal the black men and women who took part, exploring their motives and punishments for doing so.