Volume: 35 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 1985 |
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It is remarkable how quickly a region, whose peoples shared a long history and many aspects of culture, can be forgotten. |
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Kathleen Burk looks at the recent history weekend organised at Long Wittenham, a village of less than a thousand residents on the River Thames in south Oxfordshire.... |
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Judging by the anodyne results of the Anglo-Irish summit last November, the Government has ignored the suggestions of the Kilbrandon Inquiry's Report on Northern... |
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It may have lacked the newsworthy drama of the earlier acts, but the Reform legislation of 1884-85 wrought 'great organic changes in the British constitution',... |
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Museums are getting increasingly self-conscious about the artificialities they embody. Even if they can stave off the claim that objects collected through wealth... |
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Paul Preston expresses both a historic and a musical interpretation of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. |
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Tsar Peter drew on the knowledge and experience of Western Europe to benefit a Russia 'still groping in the dark' and attempted to 'put other civilised nations to... |
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Good quotes are rare in the history of science. The striking utterances which scientists have managed to produce are often over-used. |
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Christopher Abel and Colin M. Lewis analyse the state of history writing on Latin America, from a 1980s standpoint. |
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History with the people left out? Arid quantification? Aggregate History? Or study of the essential motivating force of society? What is economic history? Six... |
