Social

Daniel Bertaux presents an oral history of a traditional French industry.

Until 1883, the Football Association Cup was won every year by former public schoolboys. As Christopher Andrew shows here, at the Cup Final that May, a working-class team from Lancashire snatched the honours from the Old Etonians.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Alan Sheridan

Francis Robinson explains how his perception of Islam is reflected in his book, Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500 (Phaidon, 1982).

F.M.L. Thompson looks at the public reception of the artist George Elgar Hicks.

Gerrard Roots examines two books on the significance of the past and pastoral life.

John D. Pelzer explains how the casual gathering of like-minded coffee-drinkers would influence British political and intellectual life for decades.

'To sum up all, poverty, slavery and innate insolence, covered with an affectation of politeness, give you... a true picture of the manners of the whole nation' was Hogarth's opinion of the French in 1749, explains Michael Duffy.