Volume: 34 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, January 1984 |
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Alan Ryan discusses the short and acrimonious history of the social services. |
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David Landes asks the questions: Why clocks? Who needs them? After all, nature is the great time-giver and all of us, without exception, live by nature's clock.... |
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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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P.J. Marshall is concerned about who reads what and who cares. |
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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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Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea. |
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Taken from two eight-volume enterprises marking the coming of age of African history, Michael Crowder looks at the African reactions to the European colonial... |
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In this article, Roy Foster seeks to explain the many difficulties that are faced by Irish historians. |
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G.R. Elton and R.W. Fogel intervene in the vital current debate of historians: are there two separate species of history, scientific and traditional? |
