Volume 3: Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 1953 |
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Revolutionary impulses do not always originate in proletarian discontent. Hugh Trevor-Roper's article traces 17th-century radicalism to a very different social... |
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C.H. Brown presents his study of the political and economic background to mid-twentieth century Egyptian nationalism. |
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Sir Lewis Namier shows how, through the growth of mining and the coal-trade, the social and economic character of North-Eastern England was entirely transformed.... |
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Joseph Hone asks whether, had the Queen shown her Irish subjects greater signs of affection, could the Union have been preserved? |
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The problem of writing local history, R.H. Hilton suggests, can seldom be solved on the basis of parishes or even of counties; regions with a distinctive character... |
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Arnold Whitridge recounts how, at the dawn of the 19th century, General Bonaparte sold to the United States the vast Bourbon heritage along the banks of the... |
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In these extracts Arthur Bryant describes the glorious reign of King Alfred, 871-99 |
