1980
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by John Grigg |
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Maggie Black describes an 18th century festive meal. |
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by John lliffe |
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Norman Davies looks at a focused history of the rise of Polish Communism |
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Baron von Mildenstein and the S.S. support of Zionism in Germany from 1934-1936. |
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S. R. Karugire |
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Papers relating to Adam Smith by Andrew Skinner |
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Isaiah Berlin |
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The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 by George C. Herring |
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Law and Disorder in Stuart and Hanoverian England. |
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by M. I. Finley |
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by P. Collinson |
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John Gooch |
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Ian Bradley looks at the history of a topical political issue |
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Max Egremont |
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Edited by P. Laslett, K. Oosterveen and R. M. Smith |
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The Spanish Republicans in France, 1939-1955 by Louis Stein |
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Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20th, 1889. In this article, 'Makers of the Twentieth Century: Hitler', from our 1980 archive, Jeremy Noakes argues that... |
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by Nathan Irvin Huggins |
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Bryan Little promotes the notion that a whole city may be considered as a single monument which both commemorates many phases of history and which has survived frorn... |
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A survey of the Special Operations Executive with Documents by David Stafford |
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To mark the occasion of the fifteenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, being held in Bucharest from 9th-15th of this month, we present a portrait of the... |
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Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South - A Historiographical Survey by Hugh Tulloch. |
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by Heinz Hohne |
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Edited by Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston |
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by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie |
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An introduction by Paul Dukes to two articles on Celtic immigration to the New World. |
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Abraham D. Kriegel on a study of the Englightenment circle of Holland House |
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The loss to the Turks of Constantinople, the ancient capital of the Eastern Empire, in 1453 had been a terrible blow to Christendom. It was the crusading dream of... |
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A round-up of children’s books from Winter 1980. |
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Lawrence A. Clayton on the Chinese labourers who came to work in Peru, often in appalling conditions. |
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The history of the making of maps should be a source for historians at at least three levels; the geographical, the technical and the political. An exhibition has... |
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by T. P. Wiseman |
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by Peter L. Payne |
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Finlay McKichan uncovers what life was like for police constabularies a century ago. |
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Our understanding of coral and coral reefs, believes C.M. Yonge, was greatly advanced by the voyages of Cook and Darwin to the South Pacific. |
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Scotland was a much more disciplined society in the years before the Industrial Revolution than has usually been supported, as Lenman and Parker, the authors of... |
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by J. J. Tobias. |
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David Stevenson |
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Josip Broz Tito died on May 4th, 1980. In this article from our 1980 archive, Basil Davidson reassesses the legacy of the Yugoslavian president and soldier. |
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Walter Minchinton surveys the latest publications in this new area of research |
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by David Chandler |
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by Nicholas Harman |
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by Michael Hoffman |
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Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience 1878-1954 by J. W. Dower |
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by Donald Read |
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by Gerald Cobb |
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Anne Roberts reviews a book by Vieda Skultans. |
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Popular art in the form of cartoons, caricatures and simple engravings offered great potential for political propaganda as the revolutionary leaders discovered. As... |
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A round-up by Leah Leneman. |
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by Peter J. Klassen |
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A Tuscan Story of the Seventeenth Century by Carlo M. Cipolla, translated by Muriel Kittel |
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Martin Gilbert |
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The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939 by Paula Hyman |
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Inspired by the myth of Prince Madoc who was believed to have discovered America before Columbus. Welshmen sought to establish 'Gwladfa' a national home for their... |
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by Margaret Wade Labarge |
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by Percy M. Young |
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by J. H. Plumb |
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by Terence H. Qualter |
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After the French Revolution, the colony of Guadeloupe experienced many upheavals and was, for much of the time, virtually independent. Nevertheless it kept the... |
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Phyllis Grosskurth |
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by Adrian Hastings |
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D. C. Watt reviews a work by Norman Stone. |
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Paul Preston reviews The Blue Division in Russia by Gerald R. Kleinfeld and Lewis A. Tambs. |
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A Collection of Essays by Henry Lethbridge |
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by Philip M. Williams |
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by Maurice Shellim |
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Vietnam's present-day expansionism in Indo-China is not a recent phenomenon but has roots in its pre-colonial past argues Milton Osborne. |
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by James E. Cronin |
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Edited by George L. Mosse |
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by Peter J. Reynolds |
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Walter Minchinton reviews a book on the Industrial Revolution |
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Francis Watson looks at British travellers in Italy throughout the ages. |
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by Sarvepalli Gopal |
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Adams was a remarkable man and the most able member of America's most celebrated political dynasty. He was a polymath, second only to Jefferson as the most... |
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A new translation by Anne and Peter Wiseman |
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by Jeremy Murray-Brown |
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Norman Gash on the personal life of the man who was Prime Minister at the time of Waterloo and for nearly twelve years afterwards, who has hitherto excited little... |
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by Mervyn Brown |
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Paul Addison writes on Churchill, the British war leader who mobilised the will to resist German aggression and became a focal point for the world. But the '... |
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Hitler's contribution to the history of the twentieth century has been one of destruction. The war he started in 1939, argues Jeremy Noakes, was to recast the... |
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'Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh' was the chant of radicals in the 1966s and 1970s, idolising the Communist leader who led Vietnam's Revolutionary struggle first against... |
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'The cult of personality' means that for the West Stalin personified the arbitrary terror of the Soviet regime: yet he must also stand for the USSR's greatest... |
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A study of Lenin by D.A. Longley which questions the usual criteria by which the great Soviet leader's influence and legacy are judged. |
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Gandhi's lasting significance, argues Judith M. Brown in this article, lies, perhaps, not so much in what he actually did, but what he stood for.... Men like him... |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest-serving American President, has been accused of 'spineless government that betrayed the integrity of American ideals'. S.G.F... |
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In 1945 Tito wrote. ‘We mean to make Yugoslavia both democratic and independent’. How was this possible, asks Basil Davidson, for a war-torn Communist country in a... |
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With their differing approaches Weizmann and Ben-Gurion were the founding fathers of the state of Israel. Inspired by Herzl they laboured to give Zionism unity,... |
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Thurstan Shaw presents a special feature on human attempts to manipulate and control natural resources |
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by Christopher Donaldson |
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David McLellan |
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C. R. Dobson |
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Mark Jones looks at the cultural power of messages on medals. |
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The beautiful summer palaces of Yuan Ming Yuan outside Peking, designed by Europeans for the Emperor of China in the middle of the eighteenth century, have now... |
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Peter Allen looks at the Palace of Potala in lhasa, Tibet. |
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The preservation of the past must inevitably pose particular problems in a city which is literally a living monument to the Middle Age of African history, especially... |
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by Veljko Micunovic |
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D.G. Chandler reviews three books on war. |
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In his article last month in our series, 'Makers of the Twentieth Century', Jeremy Noakes evaluated Hitler's contribution to the creation of Nazi Germany and the... |
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Graham Seal explores the life and legend of Ned Kelly. |
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On May 3rd, 1841, New Zeland was declared a British colony. The previous year, when the British and Maori signed the Treaty of Waitangi, Governor Hobson declared... |
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Ronald Lewin looks at two new publications in military history |
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Edward Acton reviews a new book by Marc Ferro. |
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by Paul Dukes |
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J. H. M. Salmon looks at Romantic literary interpretations of Oliver Cromwell. |
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Louis C. Kleber reviews. |
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This article on piracy in the South China Sea from 1550-1950 is the first in an occasional series on the subject. Future articles will consider Mediterranean... |
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Peter Beck sets contemporary reportage of and reaction to the 1924 Olympics in the context of their times. |
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Maggie Black looks at the political uses of dining in 18th century England |
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Richard Whiting reviews a book on British society during the Industrial Revolution. |
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by Robin Seager |
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Wynne Williams reviews a book on Pompey. |
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by Patricia James |
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The Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison by Kenneth and Jane Morgan |
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Much less is known about the Portuguese conquistadores of eastern Africa, explains Malyn Newitt, than of their counterparts in America and the Indies. |
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The Presidential Election of 1928 by Allan J. Lichtmann |
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Mr Justice Malet and the Kentish Petitions by T. P. S. Woods |
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In the century between the union of the Crowns in 1603 and the Parliaments in 1707, was Scotland a backward nation with no influence south of the border asks David... |
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The Uses of Biblical Prophecy in England from the 1790s to the 1840s by W. H. Oliver |
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by Petros Garoufalias |
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by Colin N. Crisswell |
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The census of religious worship taken in England and Wales in 1851 gives a unique insight into the religious habits of our Victorian predecessors which, as Bruce... |
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Cathy Porter reviews a new book by Christopher Read. |
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Alan Kendall |
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Edward Acton has mixed feelings about a new book on Russia in 1917 |
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Juliet Gardiner reviews a new biography of Louis XVIII |
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Politics, Religion, and Government, 1620-1690 by John T. Evans |
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Alan Wood writes that the wastelands of Siberia have provided Russia with 'a vast roofless prison' for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile.... |
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by Judith Hook |
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The epic voyage of this Elizabethan adventurer to Peru and his subsequent capture by its Spanish masters inspired Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! An article by A.L... |
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More is often thought of as a gentle family man who died for his principles, not as a disciplinarian and burner of heretics... |
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D.G. Chandler reviews this history of warfare in ancient Greece and Rome |
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Shula Marks examines the abundant archaeological evidence, much of it recently gathered, for the widespread settlement of South Africa before 1488 when Portuguese... |
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by Milton Osborne |
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A round-up of interesting and intriguing books for generalist and specialist alike, in Spring 1980. |
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St. Catherine of Siena lived out her whole life with a profound belief in the spiritual value of lay experience, explains Judith Hook. |
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St. George then looking around about The fiery dragon soon espy'd, And like a knight of courage stout, Against him did most fiercely ride... And thus within the... |
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Far from being a recent development, student control was a factor in the early growth of the university as an institution argues Alan B. Cobban. |
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Edited by David Vincent |
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According to Lindsey A.J. Hughes, Peter the Great's programme of Westernisation was neither as unheralded nor such a break with the past as has sometimes been... |
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Roland Oliver reviews a fascinating exploration of the Lozi people of Zambia |
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by N. A. M. Rodger |
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by Blaire M. Kling and M. N. Pearson (eds.) |
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by Edward M. Spiers |
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Princess Abida Sultaan, granddaughter of the last woman ruler of Bhopal, Begum Sultan Jahan, examines the rule of the Begum dynasty. |
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Thomas Pakenham |
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The Roman invasion of Britain divided its constituent kingdoms and tribes. Some supported the Romans, others fiercely opposed their occupation and suffered... |
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Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney look at Celtic emigration to the Southern states of America. |
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A new history of the Jesuits, reviewed by C.R. Boxer |
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by Robert Ashton |
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by Francis Oakley |
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On June 13th the historian, Walter Rodney, died in a car explosion in Georgetown. Mystery surrounds his death, with the Guyanan regime claiming he was killed by a... |
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The work of historians like Walter Rodney alters the way we look at the world, and in recognition of the significance of his work and life, History Today is... |
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The Civil War in Zululand 1879-1884 by Jeff Guy |
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David Nicholls examines the central position of Satan in early modern French popular culture. |
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by J. Jean Hecht |
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by Mauro Cristofani |
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An introduction by Geoffrey Parker on the European Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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Nineteenth-century Argentina and the United States shared similar frontier problems, but Argentina had both a northern and southern frontier to defend against... |
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With the increase in Irish immigration into Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, concern arose about the resurgence of Catholicism. Yet not all women in convents... |
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Gustav Henningsen on the Navarre Witch-trials of the 17th century. |
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After gaining its independence from Spain in 1824, Peru experienced a boom as a result of demand for guano as a fertiliser. As John Peter Olinger details, the boom... |
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Hinduism in the late nineteenth century, explains Lenah Leneman, experienced a revival that was to reawaken its devotees to their ancient faith, expose them to... |
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by Kenneth Stampp |
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Olwen Hufton reviews. |
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The refugee supporters of the House of Stuart, explains Bruce Lehman, made new lives for themselves as Europeans, achieving success as bankers, merchants, soldiers... |
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The seventeenth-century Jews regarded Venice as 'the land of promise', where for a few generations they flourished almost free from constraint and prejudice. ... |
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Harold Acton |
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The year 1980 is being celebrated throughout the world as the fifteen-hundredth anniversary of the birth of St Benedict, whose rule, explains Henry Loyn, has been the... |
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by R. J. W. Evans |
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When the British and Maori signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Governor Hobson declared: 'We are one people'. Today, as Professor Keith Sinclair shows, this... |
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The Mexican Revolution was one of the great revolutionary upheavals of the twentieth century: beginning in 1910, it still continues - at least according to the... |
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J.A. Murphy reviews a collection of essays on the reign of Mary Tudor |
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by Robert L. Wilken |
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The island of lona became the centre of Celtic Christianity in Scotland with the arrival of St. Columba in 563. Yet the monuments remaining there, argues Ruth... |
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At first the English withstood the Norman attack of 1066. But soon they succumbed to the invaders, as did their virile language of record. An article by H.R. Loyn... |
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by Roy Medvedev, translated by George Saunders |
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Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism by Ian Bradley |
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by S. H. M. Jafri |
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Anne Roberts explores the incidence of plague in England from 1348 to 1679. |
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by B. R. Tomlinson |
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F. P. Lock |
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Norman A.F. Smith explores the use through history of the water-mill and dams. |
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The first of the series by J. Kenneth Major, on the harnessing of human and animal sources of energy. |
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Walter Minchinton, with assistance from the late Peveril Meig, looks at the potential of the ocean - from tidal mills to power stations. |
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Walter Minchinton traces the use and advantages of the windmill. |
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by Edward W. Said |
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R.J. Morris reviews a book on Victorian society. |
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The two articles that follow provide the background to the resurgence that is sweeping the Islamic world from Morocco to Malaysia. In the first, Professor Enayat... |
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In the second article of The Resurgence of Islam Dr. Leila Ahmed, an Egyptian scholar who has taught at the United Arab Emirates University, examines the... |
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Philip Mansel looks at a book on Prussian history. |
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David Watkin |
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by Mark A. Kishlansky |
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Paul Dukes looks at the history of Russians in eighteenth-century Britain |
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Edward Acton reviews a book on Russia's Revolution. |
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by E. R. Chamberlin |
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The politics of partition reappraised by O. M. Schreuder |
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The Welsh and the Atlantic Revolution by Gwyn A. Williams |
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by J. Michael Hittle |
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Ivan Roots on the brief reign of Richard Cromwell. |
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Four hundred years ago, explains Stephen Clissold, Portugal was joined with Spain in a sixty-year long and unpopular union. |
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by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Hammond. Edited by John Rule. |
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by Andrew Rothstein |
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Richard Cobb |
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Radetzky, the Imperial Army and the Class War, 1848 by Alan Sked |
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The tango was to Argentina what jazz was to New Orleans. As Simon Collier explains, it swept the world in the pre-First World War era and Carlos Gardel was its... |
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In 1951 Leopold III of Belgium was forced to abdicate after a disastrous reign in which his country was overrun by Germany and he himself taken prisoner. It was a... |
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Volume Vlll. The Interim Government 3 July - 1 November 1946, edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon |
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Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash |
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Review by David Childs |
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Francis Robinson looks at the relationship between teacher and pupil in Islamic society. |
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T.P. Wiseman commends Richard Jenkyns' interpretation of the Ancient Greeks. |
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Richard Cavendish visits an association dedicated to the 19th-century poet, socialist and craftsman. |
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by J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy |
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Michael Crowder looks back over 30 years of history publishing |
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Sir Peter Allen examines the history of Tibet's relationship with China and the Western World. |
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Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West, Vol. I, 1481-1654 by Peter Padfield |
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by Sir Duncan Wilson |
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by Ian Cameron |
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The invasion of Poland by Tsar Alexis of Russia in May, 1654, marked the emergence of his country as a major European power. As Philip Longworth argues here, it was... |
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'Monumentally bad diplomacy, worse strategy, chaotic military organisation and inept generalship' - Thomas Tulenko describes how great powers have failed in their... |
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by William Seymour, Eberhard Kaulbach and Jacques Champagne, edited by Lord Chalfont. |
