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The Women’s Victory and After: Personal Reminiscences 1911-1918
The Women's Victory
Peter Stothard
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? Roman writers were with me as an Essex teenager in the sixties and have stayed with me ever since. At sixteen I had two big passions, writing about jazz for The Daily Telegraph ( I had won a competition...
The Colourful Court of Oliver Cromwell
The Cromwell family was not as dour as we thought.
Oliver Cromwell’s rule as Lord Protector from 1653-1658 is usually imagined as a joyless, military regime, presided over by a dour Puritan who killed the king, cancelled Christmas and got his kicks from pulling down maypoles. But this is a stereotype which has been...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, by Sudhir Hazareesingh
The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
For all his achievements Toussaint Louverture, hero of the Haitian Revolution, has had a limited number of books written about him, and so it is fortunate that a new publication has arrived with Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. Sudhir...
Winston Churchill: A Life in the News, by Richard Toye
A new book on Churchill's relationship with the press.
Go back for a moment to the 5 March 1942, with a cartoon in the left-leaning Daily Mirror by Philip Zec June 1929. It showed a torpedoed merchant seaman, clinging to wreckage, and included the caption: 'The price of petrol has been increased by one penny - official'....
The Day They Pardoned Turing
The 'Alan Turing Law', passed in 2013, and the man who inspired it.
“Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 Statutory Pardon of Alan Mathison Turing.”...
IWD: Post-War Britain. Love in a Time of Peace.
Feminism and National Service.
Some years ago, I carried out a research project which explored the experiences of students in British universities between the two World Wars. As a social historian I was interested in questions of access, funding and social background. I also wanted to find out more...
IWD: The Press and Women’s Suffrage
What is left to understand about the British Women’s Suffrage Movement?
Contemporary historians have condemned the gap in literature as justification for pursuing certain narratives in history, justifiably arguing that just because something has not yet been done, that does not mean it should. However, the gap in the previous analyses of...
Mary Queen of Scots’ Secretary, by Robert Stedall
The personal reign of Mary Queen of Scots is an endless source of fascination to historians and fans of historical mystery alike. The reasons why are obvious: her relatively brief period of rule offers romance, political drama, murder mystery, and high tragedy. I am...