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.
Social
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.
Faces of Crime in Later Medieval England
J.B. Post builds a rich image of the world of criminality and justice at the end of the Middle Ages.
Knightly Codes And Piety
Juliet and Malcolm Vale trace through the web of secular status and religious instincts that made up the codes of conduct of English chivalry.
Signs and Wonders and the English Civil War
Chris Durston records how the monstrous and the supernatural were seized on by political and religious factions in seventeenth century England as signs of judgment.
Alcibiades of Athens
Rebel without a cause? Paul Cartledge probes whether the chequered career of one of fifth-century Athens' most famous sons reveals more about conflicting codes of loyalty than just the machinations of a turncoat.