Give a Dog a Bad Name: Roger Casement & F.E. Smith
John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement
John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement
The September 1981 edition of History Today was a special issue about the history of black people in Britain.
D.G. Williamson looks at the varied works relating to the 19th-century European statesman.
Bernard Porter suggests that this is fast becoming the age of the spurious historical parallel.
Robert Poole examines the continuity over centuries of a tradition in northern England.
Walter Minchinton discusses the rise of buildings used for ammunition manufacture.
The murder of young Edmund de Pashley uncovered a family feud that illuminates the realities of late-medieval crime.
Frouke Wieringa considers the life of a great prince in the sixteenth century and the fluctuations in his fortunes during the Dutch Revolt
In Paris in the 1730s, a group of printing apprentices tortured and ritually killed all the cats they could find. What does this macabre story tell us about the culture and society of eighteenth-century France?