Volume 3: Issue: 6
Contents of History Today, June 1953 |
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Stephen Coleman traces the history of smoking, from its American beginnings to the twentieth century mass market. |
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J.H. Plumb documents the life of Rhodes - an empire-builder, arch risk-taker, megalomaniac mine-owner and namesake of Zimbabwe's pre-independence... |
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Up to the reign of James II, the College of Heralds, besides the part they played on state occasions, had the important duty of regulating the kingdom’s social... |
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At first allowed by the British politicians “only just as much space as he could stand upon” Queen Victoria’s Consort, nevertheless, succeeded in setting the... |
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Sir Julian Huxley examines the debates and mysteries that surround humanity's earliest moves towards mass society. |
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This extract is the first of a series in which... |
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The seat of monarchs almost since English monarchy began, Windsor Castle owes its familiar outlines to the architect commissioned by King George IV. |
