Volume: 36 Issue: 9
Contents of History Today, September 1986 |
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Peter Biller looks at the restoration of one of England's finest remaining early town halls. |
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Andrew Selkirk discusses the changing face of Pre-Conquest Britain. |
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Dennis Mills examines the importance of census enumerators' books. |
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Philip Mansel looks at the commemorations surrounding the 250th anniversary of the death of a Habsburg monarch. |
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A slave-state where despotic superstition ruled - Herberstein's vision of sixteenth-century Russia set the agenda for future European attitudes. |
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'You are what you eat' was as relevant an observation for the ancients as for more modern thinkers, argues Helen King |
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Gibbon may have been a man of his time but he was also master of his craft in deploying facts to show history (through the medium of the Roman Empire) as self-... |
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Not just 'the Comet man' - Halley's achievements as a polymath testify to the breadth and vigour of English scientific enquiry and experiment in the years after... |
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'They do this for their Christian faith and for the saving of souls' – as Russians travelled west, they began to notice moral divides between the countries they... |
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Mike Curtis uncovers the work of museums and archaeological groups in the West of England. |
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Bruce Collins assesses various wars of national liberation and role of guerrillas throughout the world. |
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Mike Curtis explroes an important collection of papers from the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland. |
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Early Russian architects adopted and adapted foreign influences to suit their native styles, but the late seventeenth century saw this trend reversed and western... |
