2014

January
Johann Struensee, the German doctor who ruled Denmark
Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History, Vol. V

February
How to hire women: a guide from 1943
Tsarist Russia in colour: peasants and elites

March
Does coffee make men impotent? a 17th-century perspective
The rise and fall of the English coffee-house
The torments of marriage in Georgian caricatures

April
A glossary of archaic ailments
Vladimir the Great: pagan, philanderer, saint
“The Bank of Mum and Dad”, funding students since 1200

May
Dancing the lewd La Volta
Pissabed, mare’s fart, dead man’s fingers: Curious old plant names
The wicked waltz
“Dance’s Historical Miscellany” is one year old today!

June
Cripples and baked potatoes: Victorian street traders
Stages of Woman’s life from the cradle to the grave
The Mitford sisters: the duchess, the novelist and the communist
The Mitford sisters: the fascist and the Hitler-lover
Walt Disney’s “The Making of the Nazi” (1943)

July

Blood feud in early medieval Francia
Gals and bone-grubbers: more Victorian street traders

August
Foot binding in imperial China
“Teaching marble to lie”: remembering the dead in early modern monuments

September
Coffee-houses of London
The Victorian watercress girl

October
A history of Bedlam, the world’s most notorious asylum

November
“Lisztomania”: Franz Liszt, sex, and celebrity

December
Infertility in Samuel Pepys’ England