Volume: 60 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, January 2010 |
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John Tosh argues that historians should find ways to teach undergraduates the practical applications of their uniquely insightful discipline. |
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Ian Bradley reviews two books with the related theme of the history of Christianity. |
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Jonathan Clark, editor of a major new history of the British Isles, considers what effect the intellectual currents of our own time have had on the way historians... |
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A distant monarch, political factionalism, vainglorious commanders and the distraction of European enemies helped George Washington seal victory in the American... |
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Paddy Scannell reviews L.W. Connolly's work on Bernard Shaw. |
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Mark Bryant admires a Russian artist whose lampoons of Napoleon inspired some notable British caricaturists. |
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Britain has had a long and sometimes problematic relationship with alcohol. James Nicholls looks back over five centuries to examine the many, often unsuccessful,... |
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Paul Lay introduces the highlights of the January 2010 issue of History Today |
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Ian Friel argues that popular ideas of the nature of Elizabethan seapower are distorted by concentration on big names and major events. Elizabethan England’s... |
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The early life of the “Father of History” was dominated by the clash between East and West—Persia and Greece. His story of the Great War is part tragic drama, part... |
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Medieval scholars were the first to make the connection between maths and science and anticipated the discovery of inertia long before Newton. So why have their... |
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Paul Cartledge visits the archive of History Today to retrieve a critical appraisal of the Greek proto-historian Herodotus by the inimitable Oxford don Russell Meiggs... |
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In the years leading up to the Second World War, France was riven by political division as extremes of left and right vied for power. Annette Finley-Croswhite and... |
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Sedition could cost you your life in Tudor England, but by the 18th century the monarch was fair game, writes David Cressy. |
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Edward Chaney reviews a book about the ancient monument. |
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Maria Luddy reviews a work on modern Irish sexual attitudes by Diarmuid Ferriter. |
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Opera has flourished in the United States. But how did this supposedly ‘elite’ art form become so deep-rooted in a nation devoted to popular culture and dedicated... |
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Following the controversy unleashed by the appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin on BBC’s Question Time, Gavin Schaffer explores the long-running tensions within the... |
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Bernard Porter reviews the field of studies of British covert operations and espionage. |
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Roger Moorhouse on a controversial historical DVD being reissued. |
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Andrew Robinson reviews a book on Egyptology and hieroglyphics. |
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Nick Hiley reviews a work by Christopher Andrew. |
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Deborah Cohen reviews a book on marriage in England. |
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Lyndal Roper reviews a book by Merry Wiezner-Hanks. |
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Miranda Carter reviews a book that demonstrates the difficulty First World War veterans and their families had in adjusting to post-Armistice life. |
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Ian Mortimer on a new title about the phenomenon of historical novel writing. |
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Kathryn Hadley reviews a new web project from the RCAHMS. |
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The recent scandal over MPs’ expenses would not have raised an eyebrow in the 18th century when bribery was rife and rigged elections common. Trevor Fisher looks into... |
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Paul Brassley reviews two books which take a historical view of an attachment to land and location. |