Volume: 58 Issue: 5
Contents of History Today, May 2008 |
Robert Gildea describes a new Europe-wide project to investigate the impact of 1968 and its sometimes bitter legacy. |
Manus McGrogan traces the radical posters that flowered on the walls of Paris in the spring of 1968, while a new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London offers... |
Jim Downs says that the Democrats should blame history for the dilemma they face in having to choose between Clinton and Obama for this year’s presidential... |
Clive Gamble revisits the moment at which archaeologists realized that human prehistory was far longer than biblical scholars had imagined; and links this to today... |
Roger Howard asks how the discovery of oil affected relations between Britain and Persia in the early twentieth century. |
Edmund West looks at attitudes to deafness and the education of the hard of hearing, over the centuries. |
Happenings were the in-thing in the 1960s, and the late 1960s – 1968 specifically – are the in-thing at the moment: so much so that the BBC is devoting a daily... |
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May 3rd, 1938 |
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York Membery visits the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres where a new exhibition demonstrates how many countries and cultures were bound up in the First World War... |
Anthony Pagden describes how the conflict between Europe and Asia, which began over two millennia ago, hardened into an ideological, cultural and religious struggle... |
Mark Holland samples the millions of pages of old newspapers now available online. |
Gerard DeGroot takes a critical view of the student protests in Europe and the US in 1968, and the subsequent tendency of the Left to view the events of forty... |
David Abulafia, author of the newly published The Discovery of Mankind, considers Columbus’ first encounters with the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean... |
Richard Cavendish charts the life of Robespierre, who was born on May 6th, 1758. |
Richard Cavendish marks the first day commemorating mothers, on May 10th, 1908. |
John Lawton visits the fabled cities of the Silk Road. |
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