Social

Peter Riddick looks at the way oral history can add another perspective to our understanding of situations and events.

Lois Banner looks at coded messages of gender, sexuality and domination that preceded baggy trousers.

Andrew Boyd offers a bicentennial analysis of a key element in the culture of Protestant Ulster.

Laurie Johnston explores the significance of public education in Cuba's efforts to forge a national identity in a period of US intervention.

Jeffrey Green describes the impact of a troupe of six 'dwarf savages' and what it reveals about social and racial attitudes of the time.

Sue Harper reveals how a swashbuckling tale of gypsy romance opens an unexpected window on 1940s women in Britain.

Half-way to the concentration camps? Lisa Pine uncovers a little-known project from 1930s Germany used as a last-chance option for 'asocials' who fell foul of the Nazi regime.

Aidan Rankin examines the struggle of the Wichí Indians of North Argentina who fight back against discrimination in their daily lives.

From Hitler's suicide to the Berlin blockade - Friedemann Bedurftig looks at the consequences of defeat, the process of denazification and reconstruction and the growing Cold War tensions between the former Allies in charge of the ruins of the Third Reich.

Joseph H Berke examines how a country's internal conflicts creates opportunities for men such as Adolf Hitler.