Elisabeth Perry

Cleaning up the Dance Halls

Life in the fast lane - but was it the girl who paid the price? Elisabeth Perry looks at the campaign to clean up the dance palaces of America's cities at the turn of the century.

Published February 19 2002

Why Suffrage for American Women was not enough

Elisabeth Ferry explains why US women did not breakthrough in politics between the wars, despite having won the vote.

Published August 31 1993

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.