The children’s war on slavery

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

PORTRAIT BY VANESSA DELL; YOUGOV/SEX MATTERS A decade ...

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

In the 1990s, Eurosceptism was the political cause for a number of politically aware students

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

The statistics are terrifying. The burial entries in most parish registers from the 18th and 19th centuries show an appallingly high rate of infant and child mortality. Looking at some registers recen