Volume: 50 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 2000 |
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Huw V. Bowen asks whether the East India Company was one of the ‘most powerful engines’ of state and empire in British history. |
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The 60th anniversary of De Gaulle’s London address to ‘Free France’. |
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The reunification of Berlin’s libraries after the fall of the Berlin Wall |
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Malcolm Billings reviews the astonishing holdings of the Museum of Underwater Archaeology at Bodrum, Turkey. |
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July 9th, 1900 |
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Robert Peel suffered a fatal fall from his horse on June 29th, 1850. He died three days later. |
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Susan-Mary Grant looks at the motivations of ordinary citizens to fight their fellow Americans under either the Confederate or the Union flags. |
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Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Russia and its peoples. |
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Nigel Saul tells how, in spite of famines and visitations of the plague, conditions were better than ever before for those living in 1400. |
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Simon Craig discovers that drug abuse in professional sport goes back more than a hundred years. |
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Tony Stockwell looks behind the exotic facade to examine the role of the kings of Siam and Thailand in modernising their country. |
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July 12th, 1450 |
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On June 2nd 1619, a treaty was signed between England and Holland, regulating trade in the East between the English and Dutch East India Companies. Huw V. Bowen... |
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Ludovic Kennedy tells how an early introduction to British law set him on a path devoted to campaigning for justice. |
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On the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of war, Paul Wingrove looks at the roles of Stalin, Mao and Kim Il Sung.
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Rod Phillips explains why, in spite of the reputation of old vintages, most wine consumed in the past would not have suited modern palates. |