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Today's Featured Article
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Detective stories captured the imaginations of the British middle classes in the 20th century. William D. Rubinstein looks at the rise of home-grown writers such as Agatha Christie, how they mirrored society and why changes in social mores eventually murdered their sales. First published in Volume: 60 Issue: 12
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Phillip Drennon Thomas on how Henry III's elephant started the ball rolling for one of London's earliest visitor attractions. |
Ann Hills looks at a little-known treasure trove: the archives of London Zoo. |
Archive highlights for this month
A selection of additional articles for the January issue of History Today
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Richard Barber describes the discoveries he made last summer when Channel Four’s Time Team uncovered Edward III’s huge circular building at the heart of Windsor Castle. |
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 has transformed itself across the centuries. |
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Alan Sharp looks at the factors shaping national policies in the weeks preceding the Paris Peace Conference, when the failure of the victorious allies to agree on aims and a process for negotiations with the Germans resulted in a ‘tragedy of disappointment’. |
Mark Mazower looks back to the much maligned Versailles Treaty and finds we still live in the continent it created. |
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Peter Ling compares the impact of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on black culture in the 90s. |
Once upon a time... nostalgia for the imagined medieval harmony of the arts, religion and society was a powerful impetus for the aesthetic revival in these areas in Victorian England. |
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On This Day In History
Started in 1947, to grow peanuts in Tanganyika as a contribution to both the African and British economies, the Groundnuts Scheme was abandoned four years later on January 9th, 1951.