Napoleon in Russia: Saviour or Anti-Christ?
Janet Hartley discusses the mixed responses of Russia's populations to Napoleon's great gamble on an invasion and the part they played in the eventual French catastrophe.
Social
Georgian Bath - The Magical Meeting Place
Penelope Corfield examines the city of Bath as a model of social change and urban expansion in Hanoverian England.
Gentlemen & Thugs in 17th-Century Britain
Keith M. Brown questions the extent to which humanism and Renaissance courtliness had weaned the Stuart aristocracy from random acts of violence and taking the law into their own hands.
Thomas Muntzer; Social Discipline in the Reformation; & The Europe of the Devout
The early modern Reformation in Europe
May Days And After
From joyous spring rite to politicised holiday – Chris Wrigley traces the annexation of May Day through the efforts of the increasingly active labour movement in the early 1890s.
The Search for Uncle Sam
New Hampshire meat-packer to national symbol - Alton Ketchum recounts the rise and rise of Uncle Sam Wilson.
London's Charity Schools, 1690-1730
'The greatest Instances of publick Spirit the Age has produced', but confessional strife between Anglicans and Nonconformists, as well as the bitter battles of Whigs and Tories, was the stimulus for an educational programme for the poor. Craig Rose investigates.
The Baha'is of Iran
Juan Cole looks at the pacifist, prophetic and millenarian 'world religion' whose leader emerged from the social and political unrest of 19th-century Iran and whose followers have since been persecuted by shah and ayatollah alike.
Rock 'n' Roll and Social Change
Richard Welch charts the extraordinary explosion in American music and argues for its impact on society as a whole.
'Give Us Roosevelt' - Workers and the New Deal Coalition
Bruce Nelson traces how the magic of FDR and his practical social programmes welded American labour to the Democratic Party, and discusses the tensions that eventually weakened that union.