Volume: 34 Issue: 5
Contents of History Today, May 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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Anthony Wright looks at the impact on socialism and society in the last 100 years of Fabianism. |
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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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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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David Dutton explores the twilight years of the British statesman following the 1906 General Election. |
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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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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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Ian R. Smith explores the many titles covering the Boer War. |
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A number of eminent historians discuss what is history and how is a national history constructed. |
