Volume: 45 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 1995 |
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Larry Gragg recounts the attempts of a younger son to shake off his reputation in 17th-century Barbados. |
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Tim Thornton explains how a complex legal case casts light on centralised royal power in Tudor England and its limitations. |
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Laurie Johnston explores the significance of public education in Cuba's efforts to forge a national identity in a period of US intervention. |
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Jeffrey Green describes the impact of a troupe of six 'dwarf savages' and what it reveals about social and racial attitudes of the time. |
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Tower Museum, Londonderry |
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Sue Harper reveals how a swashbuckling tale of gypsy romance opens an unexpected window on 1940s women in Britain. |
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UN-designated celebration of the millennium of the Kyrgyz national epic 'Manas' |
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Richard Cavendish goes behind bars at the Beaumaris Gaol and Courthouse, Anglesey |
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Nigel Pearce marks the completion of a TV series spanning world history. |