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Natalie Livingstone’s The Mistresses of Cliveden is subtitled ‘Three centuries of scandal, power and intrigue’, words almost guaranteed to get a book a place on any popular history bestseller list, alongside the obligatory study of

  Over the last four years the right-leaning papers have exhausted themselves with every attempt to emasculate, embarrass and smear the (now former) leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband. These attacks only intensified as the

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the increasing opposition by the various temperance movements across the Western world towards the excessive consumption of alcohol coincided with the project to seek out alternative social beverages. Though

Just over a week ago, I came up with an idea for a campaign to raise my Twitter presence and share some of my research. I decided to tweet each of my new followers with

History Matters met Prof Laurent Turcot, historical advisor on Assassins Creed: Unity, to talk popular history, video games and controversy. Interview and translation by Anna Jenkin. Laurent, how did you become a historical advisor for

The 50th Anniversary of the Selma marches has once again brought the Civil Rights Movement into public view. The conventional story is one many are familiar with, and always a popular GCSE History topic, as