Volume: 61 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 2011 |
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The fools of the early Tudor court were likely to have been people with learning disabilities as a new project demonstrates, says Suzannah Lipscomb. |
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Gordon Marsden revisits Henry Fairlie's prescient obituary of Aneurin Bevan, first published in History Today in October 1960. |
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James Whitfield on why the theft of a Spanish master’s portrait of a British military hero led to a change in the law. |
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The poor economic record of Greece goes back a very long way, says Matthew Lynn. |
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There is lots of fun in this latest round up of recent historical novels, with derring-do, cross-dressing, biblical plagues and Renaissance geniuses in the mix.... |
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A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
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Mary Queen of Scots left Calais for Scotland on August 14th, 1561, aged 18 years old. |
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Courtly love, celebrated in numerous songs and poems, was the romantic ideal of western Europe in the Middle Ages. Yet, human nature being what it is, the... |
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Six years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in New Orleans Thomas Ruys Smith looks at its impact in the light of the city’s historic troubles. |
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Robin Waterfield looks at the influence of the mother of Alexander the Great in the years following her son’s death. |
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A sea voyage in the 12th century was a perilous undertaking, as a Spanish Muslim courtier’s account of his crossing of the Mediterranean demonstrates. Yet,... |
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Robin Bayley tells how his great grandfather, a Mancunian businessman, became caught up in the tumultuous period of worker unrest that paved the way for the... |
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A series of archaeological discoveries off the coast of Sicily reveal how Rome turned a piece of lethal naval technology pioneered by its enemy, Carthage, to its... |
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Queen Anne ordered a racecourse to be built on Ascot Heath in 1711. It was officially opened on August 11th. |
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Syria was among the most unstable states in the Middle East until Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. But, asks James Gelvin, can his son, Bashar, maintain the... |
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David Kynaston seeks answers to questions about the fragile future of an institution beloved by historical researchers. |
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History tells us that the West’s embrace of liberal values was not inevitable and is unlikely to last, says Tim Stanley. |
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The theft of the most famous painting in the world on August 21st, 1911, created a media sensation. |
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The story of a country that has long punched above its weight is told in Scotland’s refurbished National Museum, says David Forsyth. |
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Chris Wrigley reviews Jane Humphries study of child labour, the family and the world of work in the century from 1750. |
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Juliet Gardiner reviews Audrey Linkman's study of death photographs. |
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Nigel Jones reviews a fascinating if flawed account of Hitler's years in the German army between 1914 and 1920. |
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Mark Kishlansky reviews this study of the survival and revival of the House of Lords in the period from 1660 to 1714. |
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Nick Liptrot reviews Richard Pells' survey of the American Modernist movement. |
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Archie Brown reviews three titles on the Cold War. |
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Adrian Tinniswood on a new biography of Sir Walter Raleigh: "a great Elizabethan, diminished by his lying, his self-regard, his pride". |
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Kate Williams reviews two books about the men who served both under Wellington during the Peninsular Wars and under Simon Bolivar in his fight to liberate Gran... |
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An interview with Roger Moorhouse, the author of Berlin at War, the second recommended title in the History Today Book Club. |
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Jacqueline Riding reviews Stella Tillyard's work of historical fiction set within the period of the Regency and the Peninsular War. |