Volume: 61 Issue: 11
Contents of History Today, November 2011 |
The leading Victorian radical and Liberal poltician John Bright was born on November 16th 1811. |
Few figures in British political history have endured such lingering hostility as the statesman who did so much to forge Europe’s post-Napoleonic settlement, says... |
Clovis I died in Paris on November 27th 511, aged 46. |
Anne Sebba revisits Michael Bloch’s article, first published in History Today in 1979, on the historian Philip Guedalla’s enthusiastic but misguided... |
To mark the 400th anniversary of his birth, UNESCO has declared Evliya Çelebi a ‘man of the year’. His Seyahatname, or Book of Travels, is one of the... |
Gated communities may be growing in number but they are nothing new, as Michael Nelson knows from personal experience. |
Tim Grady on postwar Germany’s attempts to remember the contribution made by its Jewish combatants in the First World War. |
A class confrontation at the Epsom Derby of 1920. |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
Colin Jones and Emily Richardson reveal a little-known collection of obscene and irreverent 18th-century drawings targetting Madame de Pompadour, the favourite... |
Taylor Downing tells the story of the Central Interpretation Unit at Medmenham, Buckinghamshire, where the RAF’s aerial photo interpreters played a critical role... |
Anthony Fletcher pays tribute to the great historian of English protestantism, who ventured far and wide in the academic world. |
Inspired by the discovery of the frozen bodies of three soldiers of the First World War, Peter Englund considers the ways we remember and write about a conflict... |
Visitors to the fashionable spa town of Cheltenham 'take the waters'. |
At its height, the British Empire was the largest the world has ever known. Its history is central to Britain’s history, yet, as Zoë Laidlaw shows, this imperial... |
In recent years British models have reappeared on the catwalk wearing real fur, though it is unlikely to ever regain the mass appeal it once had. Carol Dyhouse... |
The academic training that historians undergo qualifies them to speak out on issues beyond their remit, argues Tim Stanley. |
Enter our crossword and win an audiobook of Alastair Cooke's America |
The first performance of The Tempest on record was at court on All Hallows’ Day, on November 1st 1611. |
A political exile, Richard Wagner found safety in Zurich, where he also discovered the love and philosophy that inspired his greatest works, as Paul Doolan... |
Michael Bentley looks at the father of British historiography who was an eloquent and controversial opponent of teleology. |
Big protests on the streets of London aren't a new thing... |
Jeremy Black reviews Charles H. Parker's account of trade, migration, disease and religion in the early modern age. |
Bernard Porter reviews Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon's account of the violence that accompanied Britain's decolonisation after the Second World War. |
Edith Hall reviews David Mattingly's study of Roman imperialism. |
Paul Lay talks to the author of Jerusalem: The Biography, the History Today Book Club title for November. The two will be in conversation at the... |
Denis Judd on an entertaining and frequently revealing new biography of Chamberlain. |
Roland Quinault reviews Peter Marsh's account of the Chamberlain family. |
Martin Evans looks at a new book that covers the heyday of the French Foreign Legion. |
The Great War and the Making of the Modern World and With Our Backs To The Wall : two books on the First World War which 'will be tough acts to... |
This month's quiz includes questions on the Iron Curtain, the Spanish Civil War, and pirates in the Caribbean |
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