Volume 3: Issue: 5
Contents of History Today, May 1953 |
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Charles Dimont traces the background and development of the English nation's favourite song. |
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M.G. Brock surveys the political landscape in Britain in 1837. |
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The English royal line has included several notable collectors of art, as Doreen Agnew here documents. |
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A study of the dangers and difficulties that confronted the young Queen in 1558, and of the courageous strategy by which she overcame them. By J.E. Neale. |
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On January 15th, 1559, England’s twenty-five-year-old sovereign left Whitehall to be crowned Queen. This article, by A.L. Rowse, was first published in May 1953,... |
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Long excluded from public business, King Edward showed, when he came to the throne, a remarkable grasp of foreign affairs. He was, as A.P. Ryan says, “a good... |
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Charles Seltman traces the idea of the ruler not only great but good—helper and protector of his subjects—back to Alexander of Macedon. |
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Eric Linklater finds that among medieval champions of Scottish independence was an ancestor of Elizabeth II, the heroic Robert the Bruce |
