Volume: 2 Issue: 1

Contents of History Today, January 1952

Charles Seltman helps explain the mysteries of the Diopet.

Arthur Waley on the pioneering French explorer and early scholar of Indian culture.

D.H. Pennington introduces the picturesque Cotswold town.

Emile de Groot on the often fractious but ever-intimate relationship between European powers and Egypt.

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, accounts for the last hours in active British politics for the 'Grand Old Man'.

Hugh Latimer unearths the role of the rubber plant in the story of empire and Malayan nation-building.

Victor Allan recounts the tale of a debonair and imperious nineteenth century fraud.