History Matters

1960s San Francisco is remembered as the capital of gay liberation, but it also saw the birth of conversion therapy.

The 18th-century Dutch Republic was a hotbed of secretive Jacobite networks producing seditious pamphlets.

The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution.

In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems.

After a long battle, Britain’s Sex Discrimination Act came into force in 1975. What did it do for women?

As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire.

By the turn of the 20th century Carl Hagenbeck’s Tierpark had revolutionised zoo exhibits – and the exotic animal trade.

Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the 16th century, but its attitude to its own poor could be very different.

Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed a great success, but it had unexpected consequences.

As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by.