Volume: 30 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 1980 |
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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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An introduction by Paul Dukes to two articles on Celtic immigration to the New World. |
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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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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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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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Peter Beck sets contemporary reportage of and reaction to the 1924 Olympics in the context of their times. |
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Jacqueline A. Rinn on the forgotten contributors to colonial society. |
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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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Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney look at Celtic emigration to the Southern states of America. |
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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 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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Four hundred years ago, explains Stephen Clissold, Portugal was joined with Spain in a sixty-year long and unpopular union. |
