Volume: 60 Issue: 10
Contents of History Today, October 2010 |
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The Neanderthals failed to adapt to climate change and may have died out in as little as a thousand years. Are we making the same mistakes, asks Mike Williams.... |
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Emma Christopher analyses the recent treatment of the sensitive issue of slavery and abolition, both by historians and popular culture at large. |
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Richard Cavendish marks an important anniversary for one of Europe's most fantastic pieces of medieval architecture. |
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In October 1935 Mussolini’s Fascist Italian forces invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) at a crucial moment in the run-up to the Second World War. Daniel Whittall... |
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Nick Poyntz looks at the ways in which mobile phone 'apps' can bring historical insight to our everyday environment. |
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The idea of a female monarch was met with hostility in medieval England; in the 12th century Matilda’s claim to the throne had led to a long and bitter civil war.... |
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The author Graham Greene journeyed to West Africa in 1935, ostensibly to write a travel book. But, claims Tim Butcher, it was a cover for a spy mission on behalf... |
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Stephen Gundle, joint curator of a current exhibition on anti-Fascist art and the decline of the cult of Mussolini, examines the political demise and commercial... |
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A cremation ghat built in Brighton for Indian soldiers who fought in the First World War has recently been inscribed with their names, writes Rosie Llewellyn-Jones... |
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Magnus Stenbock, the Swedish aristocrat and war hero, lived his life in pursuit of honour. Yet, as Andreas Marklund reveals, he died in disgrace, broken by the... |
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Court fashion, a love of birdsong and the pressures of being a king are some of the subjects discussed in letters between Philip II of Spain and his teenage... |
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Janet Voke meets Joachim Rønneberg, survivor of one of the most daring actions of the Second World War: the sabotage of a German heavy water plant deep in occupied... |
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With the chance of renewed political will to fund the Navy, possibly to the detriment of the Army, Nick Hewitt wonders if British defence policy is reverting to... |
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Richard Cavendish traces the evolution of today's 'mega-bucks' sports industry back to a small competition in Scotland in the mid-19th Century. |
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Richard Cavendish commemorates the traumatic but ultimately victorious march of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communists. |
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The philosophical writings of the author of War and Peace inspired followers from Moscow to Croydon and led to the creation of a Christian anarchist reform... |
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Emelyne Godfrey reviews a title by Sharrona Pearl. |
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Hugh Brogan reviews a book on American presidents by Nigel Hamilton |
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Valerie Holman reviews a book on Second World War publishing, by John B. Hench. |
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David Rooney reviews a work by David Blockley. |
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Stephen Halliday reviews a work on Victorian London by Drew D. Gray. |
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Joe Moran reviews a book by Paul Addison. |
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Juliet Gardiner reviews a book on Punch's Second World War cartoons |
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Philip Mansel reviews a book by Nicholas Henshall. |
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Alan Powers reviews a work on architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner |