Social

Jerome Carson and Elizabeth Wakely explore the mental illnesses suffered by some famous historical figures and consider the impact on their lives and achievements.

N.P. Macdonald explains how modern Brazil owes its extensive frontiers, and the discovery of many of its natural riches, to the journeys far inland, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of pioneers in search of slaves.

Roderick Cameron explanis how, during the 50 years that followed Governor Phillip’s landing at Botany Bay in 1788, convicts and free settlers turned the inhospitable country of New South Wales into a flourishing colony.

Stella Mary Pearce uses the example of the Renaissance to reflect on the links between interesting times and their fashions.

Charles Seltman

Naomi Mitchinson on the complex linguistic legacies of the travelling people.

Rayner Heppenstall uses the examples of Britain and Ireland to argue against absolutist views of race and nation.

Rayner Heppenstall highlights the problems inherent in divisions of British and Irish history along racial lines.

Quentin Bell unveils deeper meanings from the ever-evolving history of fashion and fancy dress.

C.H.N. Routh records the travels and travails of the Boer pioneers

Quentin Bell looks at the revolutions at work within fashion over the years, rational and otherwise.

In the second of a two part series, G.D.H. Cole analyses and compares several sets of census data to guage an accurate portrait of class demographics in Britain.

D.W. Brogan pays a historical visit to the city of light in the first half of the twentieth century.