Volume: 35 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 1985 |
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Ronald Hutton on why it is a miracle for professional historians to publish books. |
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Edward Royle looks at the most relevant titles on the 19th-century working-class political movement. |
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This winter I shall be rereading A la recherche du temps perdu. It is not, I concede, everyone's idea of evening relaxation by the fire-side. But those who have come... |
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'Trappings of popery and rags of the beast'. Mince-pies, mummers, holly and church services all fell victim to a determined Puritan attempt to stamp out the... |
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Stephen Trombley on the Boilerhouse at the V & A |
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An obsession with Aryanism and eugenic theory was the catalyst for Nazi policies of repression and extermination against gypsies and other ‘asocials’ – the... |
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The legacy of empire brought nearly half a million blacks and Asians to Britain in the fifties in search of a better life. |
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Much Tudor art may not have been 'home-grown' but its form and subject matter tells us a great deal about England's 'natural rulers'. |
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'All human life is there'. But is it - and can it be interpreted on a par with the chronicles of the great and good? Five social historians discuss the relevance... |
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Historians ask, what constitutes the history of popular culture? |
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Jeffrey Richards answers |
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Dai Smith, senior lecturer at University College, Cardiff, offers his thoughts. |
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Stephen Yeo ends our discussion... |
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William's persistent determination to build an abbey on the exact site of his victory at Hastings underlines its importance as a symbol of the Norman Conquest.... |
