Volume: 61 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 2011 |
Decadent, effeminate, outdated, the image of the Cavalier remains that of his enemies, victorious in the Civil Wars. John Stubbs offers a rather more complex... |
The successful Broadway run of The Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall’s drama set in a north-east mining community, has introduced US audiences to a remarkable... |
Richard Cavendish remembers the death of Ivan Pavlov on February 27th, 1936. |
The innocence of France’s Captain Dreyfus – a Jewish officer incarcerated on Devil’s Island after he was accused of spying for Germany – has long been established... |
Richard Cavendish remembers the death of Emperor Septimus Severus on February 4th, 211. |
Paul Lay introduces the February issue of our 61st volume. |
A series of violent attacks by pale shrouded figures on lone pedestrians, especially women, was widely reported in the early 19th century. Jacob Middleton... |
The creation of the modern unified German state in January 1871 constitutes the greatest diplomatic and political achievement of any leader of the last two... |
A monarch’s divine ability to cure scrofula was an established ritual when James I came to the English throne in 1603. Initially sceptical of the Catholic... |
Jan Gossaert made his name working for the Burgundian court and was among the first northern artists to visit Rome, writes Susan Foister, curator of... |
A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
The current House of Commons is notable for the number of members who are also historians. Will Robinson welcomes this trend, while reminding us of Parliament’s... |
Chris Wickham revisits an article by J.B.Morrall, first published in History Today in 1959, on the strange, shortlived emperor who in the tenth century... |
As we soak up television dramas that revel in the scandalous personal lives of popes and kings, we are in danger of losing sight of these figures’ real historical... |
The English diet has been mythologised as one of roasted meats and few vegetables but, as Anita Guerrini concludes from a survey of early modern writings on the... |
In our series in which historians look back on the changes that have taken place in their field in the 60 years since the founding of History Today,... |
Few British soldiers have written of their experiences of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Here, former infantry officer Patrick Mercer recalls his tours, which... |
George Augustus Frederick was appointed Prince Regent to his father King George III on February 5th, 1811. He was a heavy drinker and a compulsive gambler.... |
Adam I.P. Smith reviews a work by Amanda Foreman. |
Amélie Kuhrt reviews a new book by Amanda H. Podany. |
Paul Brassley reviews a history of the Ordnance Survey in Britain, by Rachel Hewitt. |
Daniel Whittal reviews a book on the Second World War experiences of Britain's black communities, by Stephen Bourne |
Michael Hunter reviews a book on early modern London by Malcolm Thick. |
Roger Moorhouse reviews an innovative history of an iconic weapon. |
Erica Fudge reviews a book on Chinese history, zoology and the habitat of the Giant Panda. |
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