Volume: 36 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 1986 |
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Transition in art and kingship, between medieval and Renaissance Europe, characterises the first Tudor's memorial. |
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Domesday's facelift for its 900th birthday reflects modern scholarship's changing taste as well as the new priorities of conservation. |
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Nigel Saul takes a look at the significance of the Norman conquest. |
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Michael J. Bennet shows how, maligned as self-seeking opportunists, the Stanley family can be seen to have adhered to principles of wise statesmanship which were... |
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'More like sovereign heads of state than servants of the same British Crown' - the rivalry and 'diplomacy' of imperial proconsuls hampered the creation of Nigeria... |
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Stephen Williams investigates the excavations at Leadenhall Court of the surviving portion of Roman London’s Forum- Basilica. |
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The Angevin Empire may have come about by a mixture of luck and calculation, but skill and respect for local custom were required for Henry II to preserve it... |
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David Starkey explores one of his favourite museum galleries, in south London. |
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Ruthless militarists who extinguished a more thoughtful and sophisticated culture? Or synthesisers of genius who gave England a new lease of life in focusing its... |
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J K Elliot examines sources on the New Testament and early Christians. |