Tag: History Today

  • The Invitation That Never Came: Mary Seacole After the Crimea History Today Volume 55, Issue 2 (2005) Helen Rappaport Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole. In the summer of 1856, after the last British troops had made their weary…

  • Black People in Britain: Response and Reaction, 1945-62 History Today Volume 36, Issue 1 (January 1986) Paul B. Rich Paul Rich argues that while the official response to post-war immigration was slow to develop, the tensions and white backlash of the late fifties marked its emergence as a national political issue. The Settlers from the…