Volume: 36 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 1986 |
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The hazards of medieval pregnancy were met by attitudes that were a curious mixture of folklore, obstetrics, religion and common sense. |
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'Lead them to a habit of reflection and observation for themselves...' – J.H. Burns argues that a handbook for teachers written by a north-country schoolmistress... |
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An overview of Kedleston Hall, as the National Trust launch an appeal for money to restore the property which was once the home of Viscount Curzon. |
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Marc Raeff reflects on the history of Russia as a great power during the eighteenth century |
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Mira Bar-Hillel investigates the increasing number of archaeological items being exported out of Britain. |
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Civil War in England brought destruction and damage in town and country far more akin to continental warfare than has often been supposed. |
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Paul Dukes sets the scene for a series of articles on the rise of Russia from the seventeenth century. |
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Jeremy Black looks at the establishment of Russian hegemony in Eastern Europe and beyond. |
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Ann Hills talks about the development of a Scapa flow centre to commemorate the use one of the greatest harbours from the Napoleonic Wars to the end of the Second... |
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Robert Thorpe accounts for the development of Glasgow since the nineteenth century. |
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Peter Stansky takes a look at the increasing number of houses either privately owned or owned by the National Trust being opened to the public. |
