1984
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The trade guilds of Venice, explains Richard Mackenney, were organisations with a surprising amount of political and economic power in the patrician Renaissance... |
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Philip Mansel on the dress codes of the English Court. |
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Mildred Budny gauges the scale and achievement of 11th-century art. |
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Throughout Europe, the end of the First World War brought in its wake disillusion, civil unrest and even revolution. As Daniel Francis explains here, it was the... |
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In 1926 the mining dispute led to the General Strike. Chris Wrigley writes how the memory of the hardship of those months has left a permanent legacy of bitterness... |
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Edited by Roy Douglas |
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Anthony Wright looks at the impact on socialism and society in the last 100 years of Fabianism. |
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ed. Nigel Smith |
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by R. J. Unstead |
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Francis Robinson reviews a book by Elias N. Saad. |
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A brief look at the Cabinet War Rooms underneath Whitehall. |
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by Robert Rhodes James |
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by Gwyn Macfarlane |
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by Henri Troyat |
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Irene Coltman Brown focusses on a staunch 17th-century republican prepared to die for his beliefs. |
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Breaking away from the limited perspectives of American history long prevalent in Britain, Alistair Hennessy contributes to a clearer understanding of historical... |
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'America has not come to terms with its own history ... and regards Latin American nationalism as a conspiracy against its inevitable and popular domination of the... |
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David Kiyaga-Mulindwa looks in to Southern Africa's early history. |
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by Robert O. Crummey |
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The use of guns by the police is a continuing debate in British society - as it was in Victorian times. |
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Recent events have provoked disquiet about the concept of diplomatic immunity: in the early eighteenth century, the British government was considerably less... |
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by Ronnie Butler |
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by Jonathan Schneer |
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'The Genius of Venice' at the Royal Academy, Winter 1983/4 |
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by Gwynne Lewis and Colin Lucas; Robert Gildea; Maurice Agulhon. |
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by Peter Warwick |
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Ronald Hutton on erotica and morality through history |
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by Sheila Lawlor |
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by Bemard Porter |
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by F.H. Hinsley, E.E. Thomas, C.F.G. Ransom and R.C. Knight |
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The European images of Argentina are complex, and mirror profound debates about nationalism and universalism, popular and elite culture. |
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by R.W. Harris |
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by Raymond Aron |
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David Low, the cartoonist, met Horatio Blimp, a retired Colonel, in a Turkish bath near Charing Cross in the early 1930s. Many agree with C.S. Lewis that Colonel... |
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by Ben Fowkes |
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by Julius R. Ruff |
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For the past 600 years the island of Java has been the scene for the encounter of the two major cultural and religious traditions of the world. |
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The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer |
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Caroline Reed looks at the propaganda campaigns accompanying the D-Day landings on June 6th, 1944. |
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Gabriel Ronay traces the story of the 'forgotten' rightful heir to the throne of England – who could, perhaps, have saved Anglo-Saxon England from a Norman... |
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Edited by Sarah Tyacke |
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by Alan Bullock |
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Linda Pollock looks at a collection of works on the family and the home. |
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Roger Lockyer makes a plea for a greater emphasis on the study of the history of our culture. |
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Paul Cartledge argues ancient history should be brought in from the cold. |
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Peter Stansky encourages the link between the past and present in history. |
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Bernard Porter suggests that this is fast becoming the age of the spurious historical parallel. |
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Roderick Floud puts the case for the Retention of Personal Records |
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Arthur Marwick teaches some history lessons from the Open University. |
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Stephen Koss questions whether the press has ever truly mirrored public opinion |
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Paul Dukes urges the need to widen our vision of the past by adopting the perspective of world history. |
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Anthony Sutcliffe preaches a new historical positivism |
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In the world today, a nation's financial collapse can threaten its political and social stability. It was the same in France in 1789, explains Peter Burley. |
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by John F.V. Keiger |
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Robert Thorne on London's architects and their work. |
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John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement |
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Frouke Wieringa considers the life of a great prince in the sixteenth century and the fluctuations in his fortunes during the Dutch Revolt |
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John Burrows presents this month's Today's History feature to coincide with the birth of N.F.S. Grundtvig, the Danish political reformer and father of further... |
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by Barbara Jelavich |
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Geoffrey Pearson believes the answer to modern violence and aggression lies in an assessment of hooliganism in the past. |
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Anthony McFarlane looks back to a time when freedom and independence were a common aspiration among American peoples. |
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Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea. |
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John Whittam reviews a new book by Harry Hearder. |
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The ability of Jinnah to unite a series of political expediencies with the popular appeal of Islam to demand a separate state for the Muslim people, has brought... |
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by Robert Skidelsky |
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Jorvik, the Viking-age predecessor of modern York, has in recent years, been revealed by archaeologists in astonishing detail. A new underground Viking centre in the... |
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by E. Bradford |
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Robert Poole examines the continuity over centuries of a tradition in northern England. |
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by David Englander |
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Walter Minchinton discusses the rise of buildings used for ammunition manufacture. |
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John Erickson assesses the massive Soviet assault into Germany in the final year of the war and the price of liberation. |
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David Dutton explores the twilight years of the British statesman following the 1906 General Election. |
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Stephen Trombley on the study of language and ancient texts. |
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The Early Modern Period |
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by Russell Chamberlain |
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by Muriel E. Chamberlain |
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by Norman Gash |
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James Dormon continues our America and the Americas series with a look at the growth of a group of 17th-century settlers in Nova Scotia. |
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Listening to the words of lullabies mothers have sung to their babies over the centuries can give the historian an insight into the constancy - and expression - of... |
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Dorothy Sherindan, the Archivist of Mass-Observation at the University of Sussex, traces its development - and revival in the 1980s. |
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'Compare the wealth and refinement of cities such as Mexico... in the middle of the eighteenth century, with the austere simplicity, verging on poverty, of...... |
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Montgomery had five months to mastermind the Allied D-Day landings - and give the troops faith in their battle. |
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by Lou Taylor |
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The Duke of Wellington proved a gift to the cartoonists of 'Punch' - he was a figure the magazine's readership would recognise, and he did not look unlike Mr Punch... |
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The murder of young Edmund de Pashley uncovered a family feud that illuminates the realities of late-medieval crime. |
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by Owen Chadwick |
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Mildred Budny provides some observations on the Bayeux Tapestry |
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Kathleen Burk discusses the publishing of history books. |
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Review by Patrick Collinson |
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by Clive Emsley |
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In the 1920s and 30s the wireless transformed British politics - particularly at elections - as vote-seeking politicians had to adapt their style to the demands of a... |
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by Robert Eben Sackett |
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by Rosalind and Christopher Brooke |
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Ian Roy reviews new Civil War historiography. |
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Rosemary Day reviews. |
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Geoffrey Parker looks at the Decline of Spain. |
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David Harvey explores the most influential titles on women in Ancient Greece. |
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Peter Burke examines various reassessments of the Italian Renaissance. |
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David Reynolds looks at the publications charting the American Isolationist policy since 1776. |
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Simon Keynes examines the variety of books on Anglo-Saxon rulers. |
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John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento. |
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Ralph Smith assesses the material available on the conflict in South-East Asia. |
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edited by John Ramsden |
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edited by Paul Slack |
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Geoffrey Parker travels to Germany to revisit the sites of the 17th-century conflict that saw the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburgs. |
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Andrew Pettegree reviews a new book on the Reformation. |
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Douglas Johnson on a French village’s attempts to honour its local history. |
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Ivan Roots reviews a book on the Reformation and the social change it provoked. |
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Peter Burke reviews a book on Renaissance-era Rome. |
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Geoffrey Parker reviews two books on the culture of war. |
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Rosemary Day considers Oxford and Cambridge in the Tudor and Stewart age |
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Edward Acton reviews a book on Russia and the First World War. |
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In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 there was a battle for the mind of the new Soviet man with artists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle... |
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by Charles Cruickshank |
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Michael Hunter discusses works uncovering a period of scientific revolution. |
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Jenny Wormald introduces a series of ten articles on Scottish history. |
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James Kirk reviews. |
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by Terry M. Parssinen |
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by Richard Cobb; Alan J. Megahey |
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by Paul Kennedy |
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by D. Cameron Watt |
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John D. Hargreaves looks at the 1884 meeting of European nations and the impact on Africa. |
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Edited with an introduction by David Fraser |
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by Stephen and Elizabeth Usherwood |
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Roderick Lyall on the royal household of a medieval Scottish monarch |
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edited by Liz Stanley |
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by Maurice Cranston |
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John Morril reviews a book by Christopher Hill. |
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by George Grosz |
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A collection of works on 18th- and 19th-century France |
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Simon Adams reviews a book by Carolly Erickson. |
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V.H. Rothwell reviews a book on Anglo-Soviet relations during WWII. |
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In the Paris of the 1730s a group of printing apprentices tortured and ritually killed all the cats they could find – including the pet of their master’s wife. Why... |
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by Simon Hornblower |
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edited by B.D. Henning |
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by E.R. Foster |
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Jenny Wormald reassesses the dynasty of the Scottish monarchs and their historical importance. |
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Gertrude Himmelfarb considers why and when poverty ceased to be a 'natural' condition and become a 'social' problem in the Early Industrial Age. |
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by Marc Bouloiseau |
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Edited by Dr John F. West |
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Norman Macdougall explores the vicissitudes of James IV's reign; although regarded as a paragon amongst Scottish kings, his downfall owed much to his failings.... |
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F.J. McLynn reviews a new book on the Stuarts. |
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by lain McLean |
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John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war? |
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Robin Seager reviews a book on Roman military. |
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Ronald Hutton reviews a book by Barbara W. Tuchman. |
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by M. E. Mallett and J. R. Hale |
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Ian S. Wood assesses the desire in Britain for a Second Front and how far the nation drifted to the political left. |
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by Umberto Eco |
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Roy Porter reviews a book by Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow |
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edited by Kenneth O. Morgan |
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Michael Houlihan claims the Allies could have used Resistance to better effect before and after D-Day. |
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by J.M. Bumsted |
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by Michael Charlton |
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F.M.L. Thompson reviews two books on Victorian Britain. |
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Jenny Wormald reviews |
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The activities and success of the Resistance movement in France from 1940-1944 is examined by Roderick Kedward. |
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Slavery would seem to be the epitome of domination by an all-powerful master over a passive, subservient dependent. But is this the whole picture, wonders Gad Heuman... |
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by Natalie Zemon Davis |
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by Stephen Koss |
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by John Erickson |
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Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front. |
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Martin Henig reviews a book on the Romans. |
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Edited by Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff |
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by Barry Coward |
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Oman is frequently in the news at the moment - reflecting Britain’s crucial role in the reconstruction of this ancient Empire. |
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Edited by H.T. Sibome |
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by Antonia Fraser / Sylvia Freedman |
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by Shirley Sherwood |
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by Geoffrey Symcox |
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David Cannadine on the changing nature of British history in the US |
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Brian Manning continues the study of the tumultuous period leading to the English Civil War. |
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The first of three distinguished historians at the centre of current debates, John Morrill offers his own personal conviction about the nature of the greatest of all... |
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David Underdown looks back to the Tudor age in discussing the upheavals of the mid-17th century. |
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John Gould argues for the return of national treasures ... while Malcolm McLeod expresses reservations ... |
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Conrad Russell finds that it is easier to understand why sheer frustration may have driven Charles to fight than to understand why the English gentry might have... |
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Juliet Gardiner introduces a series of articles commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the count of Nassau who led the rebellion of the Netherlands. |
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John Campbell reviews a book by Piers Brendon |
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Annmarie Turnbull reviews three books on women's history. |
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Julia Phillips charts the history of women in British society. |
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Roger Lockyer on writing Historical Biography |
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