Volume: 34 Issue: 11
Contents of History Today, November 1984 |
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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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The use of guns by the police is a continuing debate in British society - as it was in Victorian times. |
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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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Anthony Sutcliffe preaches a new historical positivism |
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As the English convict ship 'Lady Shore' sailed towards Botany Bay her human cargo contained a number of Frenchmen politicised by eight years of Revolution in their... |
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John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento. |
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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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John D. Hargreaves looks at the 1884 meeting of European nations and the impact on Africa. |
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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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Roger Lockyer on writing Historical Biography |
