Volume: 58 Issue: 11
Contents of History Today, November 2008 |
450 years ago this month, the young Elizabeth became queen of England. Norman Jones looks at evidence from the state papers, newly available online from Cengage,... |
On the centenary of her election as Britain’s first female mayor, Andrew Mackay looks at the life of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. |
The history of pugilism from the ancient Greeks to today. |
The history of democracy in 20th-century Britain |
Trea Martyn describes how urban living and a historical oasis in the capital inspired her interest in garden history, and in Elizabethan gardens in particular. |
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Mary Barton, her novel about working-class life in Manchester, 160 years ago. It was written from the heart, says Sue Wilkes, even though it... |
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... |
To understand why Americans believe their nation to be innocent of imperialism we must go back to the Founding Fathers of the Republic, says Graham MacPhee. |
Tony Chafer examines the paradoxes and complexities that underlie belated recognition of the contribution of African soldiers to the liberation of France in 1944... |
Ian Ronayne describes how the Channel Island was torn in the First World War between its role as potato producer and its patriotic duty to send men to fight. |
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Kathryn Hadley discusses the fate of several villages destroyed in the First World War, now on military territory usually inaccessible to the public. |
Reconciliation is not following in the wake of the search for truth about the past in one fomer Warsaw Pact country, Colin Graham reports. |
After 1918 the myth was created that the German army only lost the war because it had been ‘stabbed in the back’ by defeatists and revolutionaries on the Home Front.... |
The Dowager Empress of China, Tzu-hsi, died on November 15th, 1908, after ruling China for almost fifty years. |
Dionysios Stathakopoulos surveys the history of the Byzantine Empire from its foundation in 324 to its conquest in 1453. |
More than 900 people perished in the Jonestown mass suicide of November 29th 1978. |
Mark Bryant examines the wartime work of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, creator of the famous ‘Old Bill’ character. |
Nazi Germany in the Second World War |
Richard Cavendish looks back at the accession of Elizabeth I, November 17th, 1558 |
Putting the Manorial Documents Register online creates a major resource for historians, reports Sarah Charlton as the project is extended to Berkshire and... |
Jeremy Black discusses how changing military and propaganda needs have influenced cartographers over the last 150 years. |
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