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The 1954 lawsuit brought against the US Army by Joseph McCarthy marked a turning point in public attitude towards the ‘Red Scare’ Senator. Thomas Doherty tells how television played a crucial role in his demise.

Women as perpetrators of crime, rather than its victims, were figures of especial fascination and loathing in the Victorian popular press. Judith Knelman delves deeper.

In the aftermath of 1798 the British had to deal with thousands of political prisoners. Michael Durey traces the mixture of decisiveness, pragmatism and clemency with which they were treated.

Britain's working-class Chartist movement organised a mass meeting at Kennington Common on April 10th, 1848.

Brian Ward, author of a new book on the links between Rhythm and Blues music and the Civil Rights movement, tells of Martin Luther King’s little-known experiences as a recording artist.

John Morrill re-examines a stormy period of religious history.

Clive Emsley argues that nineteenth-century perceptions owed more to media-generated panic than to criminal realities.

Christopher Ray queries the accepted pictures of a reluctant victim of forces beyond her control.  

Charles Esdaile explores grass roots opposition to Napoleonic rule, the forms it took and how the empire fought back.