Volume: 60 Issue: 4
Contents of History Today, April 2010 |
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Richard Hayman traces the changing significance of the Green Man, a term coined in the 1930s for a medieval image of a face sprouting foliage, the meaning of which... |
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Daniel Snowman reviews a work on the relationship between British historians and those on the continent. |
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Richard Cavendish provides an overview of the life and career of the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, who died on April 11th, 1985. |
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Juliet Gardiner explains why her new book examines a short period of the 20th century and how she attempts to achieve a panorama of experiential history that gives... |
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Digital technology is rapidly changing the nature and scope of historical enquiry for both academics and enthusiasts. Nick Poyntz introduces a new series that... |
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Marybeth Hamilton reviews a book on an infamous American anti-hero. |
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Mihir Bose tells the little-known story of the Indian secret agent codenamed ‘Silver’ who served both the Axis and the Allied forces during the Second World War. |
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Lucy Worsley reveals the strange stories of the cast of characters on the King’s Grand Staircase at Kensington Palace, painted by William Kent for George I in the... |
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Paul Lay introduces the April 2010 issue of History Today |
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Richard Vinen reviews a book on the interwar years in France. |
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As India marks its 60th year as a republic, Jad Adams goes in search of the sometimes elusive legacy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the 'Father of the Nation'. |
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Juliet Gardiner reviews a work on style, fashion and feminism. |
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A selection of your correspondence |
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Elizabeth Archibald reviews a work on the legendary wizard of British folklore. |
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Emelyne Godfrey reviews a work on how murder and punishment was treated by Victorian Britain. |
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A mysterious child from northern Germany, portrayed by William Kent on the King’s Grand Staircase, became one of the sensations of the Georgian age, as Roger... |
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Suzannah Lipscomb on a book about how the English ate in the high middle ages and early modern era. |
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Switzerland’s recent vote to ban the building of minarets drew widespread criticism. Natasha Proietto looks at the historical background to that decision, the result... |
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Nancy Mitford finds that Carlyle’s biography of the King was one of the oddest ever written, but it is ‘so carefully drawn that it finally presents a perfect... |
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The first Pony Express riders set off on April 3rd, 1860. Richard Cavendish charts its history. |
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Giles MacDonogh visits the History Today archive to examine Nancy Mitford’s... |
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For most of Britain’s population, the Restoration had little effect. Life under Charles II was much the same as it was under Cromwell, argues Derek Wilson. |
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In the mid-18th century – at the height of the power struggle between France and England and the political ferment of both nations – a French spy with a peculiar... |
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Devastating earthquakes have been chronicled on the island of Hispaniola for the past 500 years, writes Jean-François Mouhot. |
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Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of the founding of Switzerland's first university, at Basel, on April 4th, 1460. |
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Paul Lay reviews two works on German history. |
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Kathryn Hadley reviews a new website launched by the British Library. |
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David Cesarani reviews two books on genocide. |
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Miri Rubin explores the medieval galleries at the V&A and the British Museum. |