Volume: 34 Issue: 4
Contents of History Today, April 1984 |
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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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Ben Shephard looks at the career of Peter Lobengula, the African 'Prince' who tantalised the British press and public and died in poverty in Salford in 1913,... |
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A brief look at the Cabinet War Rooms underneath Whitehall. |
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David Kiyaga-Mulindwa looks in to Southern Africa's early history. |
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'They dwell in paradise and it pays' was the view expressed of the immigrant fruit farmers who settled in British Columbia for a long Edwardian summer, explains... |
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Peter Stansky encourages the link between the past and present in history. |
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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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Geoffrey Parker looks at the Decline of Spain. |
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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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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... |
