Volume: 36 Issue: 4
Contents of History Today, April 1986 |
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Robin Studd shows how Henry III's acceptance after 1259 of vassal status for England's one remaining continental territory of Gascony gave enormous scope for... |
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What was it really like to live in an English village at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign? To what extent was it a close-knit community? How deeply was it... |
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Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon raise questions about systematic interviewing and lack of preservation of historical evidence. |
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'Manners makyth man...' but as the 19th century dawned; English intellectuals became increasingly concerned with expanding education and 'useful knowledge' down to... |
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Emancipation in British Guiana brought an influx of indentured labourers from India, whose working and living conditions were destructive of caste and culture, and... |
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The new phenomenon of inflation in 16th-century England not only disrupted the medieval social order, it also challenged the traditional moral censure of usury and... |
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A damned inheritance, hopelessly over-extended and out-resourced by the kings of France? Or an effective empire thrown away by incompetence and harshness? John... |
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Mike Curtis takes a look at historical Hampshire. |
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Ralph Houlbrooke traces back the distinctive roots of the modern family. |
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Robert Thorne takes a look at the reconstruction of the New Tyne Theatre after a recent fire. |
