Panoramania
Robert Thorne investigates the nineteenth-century passion for views that has inspired the exhibition about to open at London's Barbican Art Gallery.
Social
From Britannia to Maggie: The Fall and Rise of John Bull's Descendants
Roy T Matthews and Peter Mellini argue that the last 100 years have brought mixed fortunes for Britain’s family of national symbols.
Pox and Paranoia in Renaissance Europe
J.S. Cummins considers the impact of syphilis on the 16th-century world – a tale of rapid spread, guilt, scapegoats and wonder-cures, with an uncomfortable modern resonance.
Anti-Popery and the London Mob, 1688
Robert Beddard chronicles the indiscriminate orgy of looting and destruction unleashed in the vacuum between James' flight and William's arrival in the capital.
Portugal's Impact on Africa
Bartholomew Dias' voyage to the Cape of Good Hope in the late 15th century marked the apex of an extraordinary Portuguese expansion overseas and the start of a fateful European impact on South Africa.
Radical Rogues and Blackmailers in the Regency Period
Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.
Crime in 20th Century Britain
Victor Bailey looks at the alarming rise in British crime in the second half of the twentieth century.
The Gnostics; & The Social Structure of the Early Christian Communities
Early Christian thought and societies
Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain
Edited by P.J. Waller
Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Timothy Curtis and J.A. Sharpe delve into the country's criminal past.