‘For the Ladies’
John Strachan looks at women and advertising in late Georgian England.
John Strachan looks at women and advertising in late Georgian England.
Tim Black seeks to understand the origins of antisemitism, looking beyond the Holocaust to the ancient Middle East and medieval Europe.
Edward Falshaw advises how our study of this important period can match the examiners’ agenda.
Angela McShane Jones asks what depictions in broadsides of Mary II with her breasts exposed, tell us about 17th-century popular attitudes to royalty.
David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.
Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past.
Colin Cook looks at the political, philosophical and cultural impact of the idea of aviation in the first half of the 20th century.
David Johnson describes the infamous Marriage Act of 1753, which made marriage a tightly-regulated institution governed by church and state.
Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now.
Peter Furtado introduces the series.