Religion and Revolt: Bengal Under The Raj
Peter Heehs describes how Hindu revivalism stiffened resistance to colonial rule in British India.
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Europe in England's Medieval Mirror
Nigel Saul looks at the two-way traffic between medieval Britain and the Continent
Allinson's Staff of Life - Health Without Medicine in the 1890s
Sarah Pepper investigates a medical pioneer whose name survives today on a bread wrapper, but whose sweeping system of wholefoods and natural prescriptions offended the medical establishment of late Victorian England.
Australia's Convict Origins - Myth and History
Ball-and-chain nationhood: Brian Fletcher chronicles the ambiguities Australians have felt over the years towards the nation's 'Founding Fathers'.
The Silent Mind - Learning From Deafness
Nicholas Mirzoeff chronicles the struggle of deaf people for recognition and identity over the past 200 years.
Propaganda in the Wars of the Roses
Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties
Changing the Tune: Popular Music in the 1890s
Ian Bradley looks at what qualified as family favourites in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
British Gypsies and the State
David Mayall chronicles the uneasy relations between gypsies and the British establishment.
Phoney War - England, Summer 1642
'Tis to be feared this threatening storm will not be allayed without some showers... of blood' – Chris Durston chronicles the rumours and fears of an England on the brink of fratricidal conflict.
Women's Work and the English Civil War
Anne Laurence considers how the conflict between King and Parliament altered the occupations and preoccupations of England's women.