Social History Posts

Strange Bewildering Time
Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail

James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38

Looking After Miss Alexander
Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

Pleasure and Panic
New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs

The Next Civil War
Dispatches from the American Future

In Their Own Write
Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900

Toronto’s Poor
A Rebellious History

Lunch-Bucket Lives
Remaking the Workers’ City

Liquor and the Liberal State
Drink and Order before Prohibition

Feeling Feminism
Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave