Volume: 56 Issue: 4
Contents of History Today, April 2006 |
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Charles Townshend has read hundreds of 'witness statements' from the men and women who took part in the Easter Rising, made available to the public in 2003 after... |
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Richard Vinen ponders the political significance of two of France’s most potent female icons and finds there is more to them than meets the eye. |
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April 9th, 1806 |
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Juliet Gardiner reviews the current exhibition at Tate Liverpool that celebrates the British flair for documentary film-making. |
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Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising ninety years ago this... |
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Krista Kesselring describes how coroners in the Early Modern period tried to establish the cause of death in disputed cases. |
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Editor Peter Furtado explains current trials setting historical precedents. |
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Michael Hunter, an authority on the natural philosopher Robert Hooke, describes his excitement at the recent discovery of an unknown manuscript in Hooke’s hand. He... |
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Chris Smallbone explains the effect of United States expansion on the native Americans of the Great Plains in the mid-19th century. |
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On May 30th 1431, Joan of Arc was burnt as a heretic in Rouen. In this article from our 2006 archive, Richard Vinen ponders the political significance of one of... |
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Linda Kaye describes a project to make accessible to the public the history of a series of ‘cinemagazines’ made by the Government in the 1950s and 60s to promote... |
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Geoffrey Hosking looks at the place of Russia within the Soviet Union, a position fraught with paradoxes that still resonate today. |
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Frederic Raphael explains how the isles of Greece, and the rest of the classical world, caught his imagination. |
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Monarchs claim to be surrounded by an aura of majesty. Cartoon historian Mark Bryant examines some famous incidents when a caricaturist’s pen punctured this aura... |
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Peter Neville says that Bush and Blair failed to draw the proper lessons from Munich 1938 when they raised the spectre of Chamberlain and appeasement to justify... |
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Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of King James I's creation and proclamation of a union flag, on April 12th, 1606. |
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Historical travel, alone or in organized tours, is burgeoning and fun. Our new series suggests some places for the past-minded traveller to think about. ... |
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Richard Cavendish describes the earthquake that shook San Francisco on April 18th, 1906. |
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Andrew Robinson marvels at the brain power and breadth of knowledge of the 18th-century polymath Thomas Young. He examines his relationship with his contemporaries,... |