Volume: 55 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 2005 |
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A Tudor portrait in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, once believed to be Mary I when princess, has recently been relabelled ‘Possibly Lady Jane Grey’ as the result... |
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Judy Greenway recalls a colourful trial involving an Italian anarchist and a policeman in the year of the Aliens Act. Illustrations from The Daily Graphic, October... |
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Two hundred years after William Pitt took on Napoleon, Europe is in crisis again. Keith Robbins warns Tony Blair that there are no easy fixes to the issues of... |
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The greatest battle of Napoleon’s career took place two hundred years ago, on December 2nd, 1805. Although it is often called the Battle of the Three Emperors,... |
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December 23rd, 1805 |
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John Foxe’s graphic and angry work depicting the persecutions inflicted by the Roman Catholic church, was partly a response to the rising tide of intolerance across... |
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The teaching of history in our schools and universities continues to raise questions for historians, teachers, students and parents alike. Peter Furtado reports on... |
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Andy Lynes experiences a colourful and tasty vocation lesson in the history of the Regency period. |
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Peter Furtado selects some readers' thoughts. |
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Historical novelist Katie Grant delves into her family history for inspiration. |
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The bride was fifteen and the groom twenty-two, when they married on December 1st, 1655. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 12th, 1905. |
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Peter Furtado introduces the man closer to Winston Churchill than any other. |
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At court, the twelve days of Christmas were a time for politics, intrigue and manoeuvre as well as for merry-making. Leanda de Lisle explores the mixed feelings... |
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Mark Bryant contines his exploration of significant cartoons and caricature with a look at a German magazine that published some of the bravest satirical critiques... |
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From Godwin to Warwick to Leicester: for more than a thousand years the English earls have been key players in many of the great events of English history. But... |
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Peter Furtado introduces this issue of the magazine and reminds us of the importance of taking a long view of history. |
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Merchant Ivory’s latest film White Countess tells the story of a high-born Russian woman reduced to poverty and prostitution to support her family – refugees of the... |
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David Gimson describes a school trip with a difference: from Oxford to Japan to see how another country deals with its own contested and painful past, and to develop... |
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Historians have often stressed the modernity of America’s Civil War. The rifled-musket, the iron-clad warship, telegraphs and railroads have been heralded as... |