Volume: 36 Issue: 6
Contents of History Today, June 1986 |
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Resistance to Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula gave a little-known English general a unique opportunity to remould the Portuguese army. |
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Caroline Bingham tells the tale of how two self-made businessmen in their seventies became the unlikely progenitors of pioneering womens' colleges in Victorian... |
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Helen Wallis charts the Portugal's astonishing success in voyages of exploration between 1415 and 1520 |
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World wars, dictatorship and the tensions of empire tested, but not to breaking point, the alliance in the twentieth century. Tom Gallagher outlines how economic... |
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New technology showcases history in America at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. |
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Paul Dukes interprets the heritage of China in the context of global history |
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John of Gaunt's dynastic ambitions coincided with the urgent need of the Portuguese Crown for foreign support to secure its sovereign independence - the catalyst... |
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Port wine and a queen for England from Braganza - commercial and cultural links strengthened the alliance steadily during the Age of Reason. |
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How many miraculous recoveries from castration and blinding were there in thirteenth-century England? Paul Hyams investigates the conjunction of the cure with the... |