Volume: 37 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, January 1987 |
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Julie Richards-Williams on the salvaging of a 17th-century Swedish warship. |
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The symbols, slogans, ideas and architecture of the Founding Fathers were saturated in the world of Ancient Greece and Rome. |
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'Take but degree away... and hark what discord follows' was a Tudor and Stuart commonplace but the neatness and fixity of what we think of as their social order is... |
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The newly-found voices of the slaves caught up in the American Civil War, and heard through letters to their families, are a testimony to their tenacity and unity... |
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The deep conservatism of Castilian life militated against the attempts of reformers to regenerate the kingdom through transformed social values. |
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John Slater looks at the school curriculum and politically sensitive debates. |
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Buying and selling with our 'kith and kin' was the hallmark of an intensive inter-war campaign for the idea of Empire. |
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Jack-of-all-trades and master of a period of English history which he both lived through and epitomised. |
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Excavations at Whithorn Priory in south-west Scotland have revealed a hitherto unknown settlement of Norse origin dating from AD 950-1100. |
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The hubris of Louis XI's Constable produced his nemesis against a background of incipient French nationalism and a growing royal sense of 'majesty'. |
