Friday 4th July, 2008

July 2008

In this month’s magazine cover story Nicholas Orme explores the relationship that our own medieval forebears had with their past; James Gregory reviews attitudes to poverty over the last 150 years and Anna Keay describes how Charles II maintained himself as king-in-exile for the eleven years of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
 
We also explore the complexity of Tibet's history in the 20th century and of China and Britain's involvement.

History Today July 2008

 

Health and Efficiency magazine, 1937 (courtesy of the author)

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Free article button As you prepare to ‘cover up’ on the beach this summer, lie back and enjoy Robert Mighall’s true history of sunbathing...

The devastated Tunguska Forest (courtesy of the author)

 
Three new but very different museums have opened this summer, covering history from cocktails to computing ...
 

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