Food as Dole
Maggie Black looks at the long tradition of giving food as alms.
Social
Japan's Infatuations with the West
Japan had two great infatuations with the West: in the 1870s and during the American occupation of 1945-52. Forsaking traditional isolationism, Japan welcomed Western ideas and customs with open arms, and according to Jean-Pierre Lehmann, what resulted was not an ersatz Western culture but one that retained a distinct national identity
The Army and Society 1815-1914, Themes in British Social History
by Edward M. Spiers
Life under the Han Dynasty
Arthur Waley describes Chinese civilization in the first and second centuries AD.
Ned Kelly: The Genesis of a National Hero
Graham Seal explores the life and legend of Ned Kelly.
The Domestic Servant in Eighteenth Century England
by J. Jean Hecht
Engraving the Republic: Prints and Propaganda in the French Revolution
Popular art in the form of cartoons, caricatures and simple engravings offered great potential for political propaganda as the revolutionary leaders discovered.
Canada in Crisis: The Historical Background
"We belong to that little group of peoples destined... for a special role, the tragic role. Their anxiety is not whether they will be prosperous tomorrow, great or small, but whether they will be at all..." - Lionel Groulx, Quebec historian
Religion in the Victorian City
The census of religious worship taken in England and Wales in 1851 gives a unique insight into the religious habits of our Victorian predecessors which, as Bruce Coleman explains, is very much at variance with the popular image of them.
Scots in Bondage
Jacqueline A. Rinn on the forgotten contributors to colonial society.