Volume: 32 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 1982 |
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An inspiring leader during the dark days of war, Winston Churchill was losing popularity with the Conservative defeat of the post war years. But despite growing... |
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Constantine Gerakis, c 1648-88, better known as Phaulkon, was an exemplar of Europe's burgeoning influence in Asia in the seventeenth century. He played the role... |
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Peter Burke on the historian Frances Yates's career. |
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Juries are generally believed to be the collective voice of free-born Englishmen, but in the aftermath of Civil War the system was at the centre of debate about the... |
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A short editorial by Michael Trend |
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Maiden Castle, an enormous earthwork two miles from Dorchester, Dorset, dominates the local landscape. The hill-top site, explains William Seymour, shows traces of... |
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Margaret Spufford examines popular fiction in 17th-century England. |
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Roy Porter on the European concept of Enlightenment. |
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From 1858 until 1945, explains Frances Stewart, the Andaman Islands served as a penal colony for the British Empire. The islands were also valued for their good... |
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