Social

Since before Roman times, writes Marjorie Sykes, pearl-fishing has been practised in North Wales, Cumberland and Perth.

In the 1880s, writes Ronald Rees, an English community brought with it to Canada hunting, horse-racing, cricket, tennis and rugby.

Elka Schrijver documents the productions and popularity of these 18th-century engravings and prints.

After the excommunication of Queen Elizabeth, writes M.L. Clarke, Rome became a centre of her enemies, and every English traveller was apt to be regarded with suspicion.

Ian Bradley traces the development of the Salvation Army's brass sections.

John Terraine describes how, in 1917, there was little to sustain German morale at home.

 Turner describes how, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this exclusive London club was presided over by a feminine oligarchy, equal in power to the Venetian Council of Ten.

John Wroughton describes how the Prince of Wales and his Oxford tutor paid two agreeable visits to Germany in 1913, from which he returned with a warm affection for the German people.

Andrew Allen describes how the toad owes its relationship with witchcraft to the virulent poisons that its warty skin produces.