Volume: 36 Issue: 10
Contents of History Today, October 1986 |
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'My country, right or wrong' – but which country? The dilemmas of allegiance posed for Americans by the outbreak of war between the colonies and the British Crown... |
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A look into the largest ever archaeological exhibition at the British Museum. |
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Tony Aldous observes the Newham based Passmore Edwards Museum which tells part of the story of the Great eastern railways. |
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Was the murder of the Count of Flanders by his own vassals divine retribution for past errors, or simply another stage in the development of a state? The chronicle of... |
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‘Have the authors of a two-penny weekly journal, a right to make a national inquiry'? 18th-century governments thought not and neither did the newspapers’ readers... |
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James Graham-Campbell looks at the persisting image of the Vikings as pagan raiders striking at isolated Christian settlements. But is this the whole truth? And... |
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A reflection on the beginnings of the motor car industry by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. |
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Susan Bayly looks into an Indian Museum in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. |
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A look into a building designed by an early American architect situated in Hammerwood Park near East Grinstead in Sussex. |
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David Stevenson takes a look back on the treaty that ended the First World War. |
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Ann Hills investigates National Trust properties in Ireland being singled out for new development plans. |
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Richard Normington looks into the popularity of Wargames. |
