Volume: 31 Issue: 3
Contents of History Today, March 1981 |
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Daylight saving was a logical policy to manipulate the fruits of nature. Yet, as Oliver B. Pollak explains, it was opposed by farmers, trivialised by politicians, and... |
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Ian Duffield argues that, more than any other African leader Kwame Nkrumah - together with the man whose examples and ideas gave him so much inspiration, Marcus... |
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In Wales rugby football grew up in the communities of the industrial south. It was imbued with Welsh culture and aspirations, and provided drama for the Welsh... |
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Stephen Usherwood shows how Lord Mansfield employed his precise legal mind and his reasoned humanitarianism to expose the iniquities of slavery - and thus helped... |
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James Marshall-Cornwall explores how, in the Middle Ages, devout pilgrims journeyed to Santiago de Compostela in the belief that they were paying homage at the... |
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In the mid-seventeenth century Spain was at the apogee of artistic and cultural achievement under the patronage of her monarch, Philip IV - but, as R.A. Stradling... |
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Maggie Black on the history of bread and breadmaking. |
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Irene Coltman Brown continues our series on the Historian as Philosopher, by looking at how the significance of the Peloponnesian war for its historian, Thucydides... |
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David G. Chandler completes his series with a look at drill books and tactics. |
