Volume: 31 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 1981 |
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire appears to offer a paean to the civilised society of the Antonines. But Gibbon, as A. Lentin reveals, was well aware that... |
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Michael J. Bennet shows how, maligned as self-seeking opportunists, the Stanley family can be seen to have adhered to principles of wise statesmanship which were... |
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‘The Universities have been to this nation as the wooden horse to the Trojans’. An article by Irene Coltman Brown. |
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Stuart Andrews shows how Tom Paine not only popularised the idea of American Independence but helped to keep the spirit of Union alive through seven years of war. |
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William Seymour argues here that the determination of Sir Charles Napier to uphold British interests in Sind led to coercion and eventual war. Much criticised for his... |
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Geoffrey Parker looks at the moment, four hundred years ago this month, when the representatives of certain provinces of the Netherlands met together to depose their... |
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