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  • Real Lives: Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

  • Robert Branford: a faithful servant of Southwark

      Historian article
    Stephen Bourne explains how he pieced together the story of Robert Branford, the earliest known mixed-race officer in the Metropolitan Police, who faithfully served the people of Southwark in the Victorian era.
    Robert Branford: a faithful servant of Southwark

  • In conversation with Mineke Schipper

      Historian feature
    Rosalind Crone from The Historian talks to Mineke Schipper about her new book, The Shrinking Goddess, a re-examination of the rise of patriarchy through myths, proverbs, stories, images and understandings of the female body.
    In conversation with Mineke Schipper