Volume: 36 Issue: 5
Contents of History Today, May 1986 |
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A 15th-Century perspective on the European balance of power. |
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Ann Hills talks of the legend of Peddars Way, a Roman road in Norfolk. |
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Francis Robinson takes a look at how Muslims breached the culture gap with the western world. |
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The 'pass laws' and migrant labour of apartheid in South Africa today have their origins in the policies designed to control the black workers in the diamond mines... |
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'Bread and circuses' - the control and availability of grain was the key to political power and social stability in the ancient world. |
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Kenneth Fowler looks at the genius of the 14th-century French courtier and chronicler and how he captured the spirit of his age in a sophisticated and complex... |
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An embryo patron of the English Renaissance and a lost Protestant hero? Roy Strong examines aspirations and might-have-beens in a major new study of Charles I's... |
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'Not as a conqueror but as a legitimate heir' – Henry's grand gamble to unite the crowns of England and France recognised the realities of national sentiment on... |
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Timothy Benson assesses Hitler's irritated reaction to being lampooned by David Low of the Evening Standard. |
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The punishment of a rebellious client-state by Ancient Athens was the peg on which Thucydides hung an eloquent discussion of the morality of power and violence. |
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John Maddicott argues that Edward III's bid for glory in France was motivated by concerns about England's neighbours and trade as well as amour propre for... |
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The redevelopment of Toxteth in Liverpool means it now once again accommodates the middle classes, Tony Aldous talks of it rehabilitation. |
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Roy Forster takes a closer look at the history of Home Rule and Union over the last century. |
