Hooligans in History
From Garotters to Peaky Blinders: is youth ‘not what it used to be’?
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Inside the Ancient Bull Cult
King Minos and the Minotaur remain shrouded in mystery and mythology, yet evidence of a Bronze Age ‘Bull Cult’ at the Minoan palaces abounds. Were bulls merely for entertainment or did they have a deeper significance?
Edward Bernays: The Original Influencer
An uncanny ability to mould public desire made Edward Bernays one of the 20th century’s most influential – yet invisible – characters, the architect of modern mass manipulation.
Kick-starting British Industry
In the Industrial Revolution, state intervention, protectionism and immigration were all adopted by successive governments to promote British manufacturing.
Roman Loans
Dealing with debt in the Roman Empire.
New Life for Labour?
History suggests that closer collaboration and rradical new thinking between the central state and Cooperativisim could yet yield positive results.
What Makes a ‘Good’ Migrant?
The division of migrants into those who are of benefit to British society and those who are not has a long history.
Stripping Down the Buttoned Up
An examination of the ‘fleeting, fine-grained intimacies’ of letters, diaries and memoirs produces a witty and scholarly account of Victorian attitudes to the body.
Let Them Eat Meat
Faced with an extortionate rise in the price of kosher meat, Jewish women in New York’s Lower East Side employed protest tactics borrowed from the radical political movements that prospered in their neighbourhood.
Buying British
From Elizabethan laws to modern food campaigns: the long history of Britain's patriotic consumers.