Volume: 36 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 1986 |
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Brian Holden Reid recounts his own experiences of great military events. their literature, political significance and memory. |
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Alan Sked looks at the sensational leaking of Austrian military secrets to Russia on the eve of the First World War. |
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Though hymned by writers as an exemplum of Sparta's virtue, was Agesilaos the author as well as the spectator of her decline and fall? |
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Paul Preston and Helen Graham discuss the tension developing in the Europe of the 30s as the Left attempted to unite against the growth of Fascism and the bloody... |
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man - is this the secret of Braudel's fame as the Victor Hugo of French history? |
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'In the beginning, America was in the way'. Only slowly did 16th-century Englishmen turn from the chimera of a short-cut to Asia's riches to the vision of precious... |
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'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'... many of the agricultural practices described in the art and literature of classical Greece persist to the present day... |
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Tony Thorncroft on the sale of golfing memorabilia. |
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by Hugh David |
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Paul Preston follows the unsettled road leading to the clash between the republicans and nationalists. |
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In this abridged version of the prize-winning essay from our recent competition, Tracey Earl follows the fortunes of the Protestant refugees who came to Canterbury... |
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Stephen Johnson discusses the opening of an 11th century castle in Northumberland. |
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Three texts dealing with the transition from the Renaissance to the Modern Age |
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Helen Graham on the political coalitions in Spain in the 1930s and their role in blocking Fascism. |
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Ann Hills explores the impact on various eras of history of the mines of the Nenthead area. |
