Volume: 37 Issue: 10
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Personal persuasion and the hope of maintaining a Scottish identity encouraged emigrants to a better life in 1870s Canada - but their experiences on arrival were far... |
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Paul Dukes takes a look back on the Russian Revolution. |
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Rebel without a cause? Paul Cartledge probes whether the chequered career of one of fifth-century Athens' most famous sons reveals more about conflicting codes of... |
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Questions are raised about the death of men in John Franklin’s 1845 Arctic expedition. |
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The spectacular defection of France's principal naval base to the British should be seen less as a master-stroke by forces of reaction and more as the anguished... |
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Conrad Russell examines the evil reputation attached to the poll tax. |
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David Starkey looks at what impresses the contemporary visitor to Henry VIII's palaces |
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What did the Pilgrim Fathers and other settlers write to the Old Country about? In a new study of their transatlantic correspondence, we find close connections... |
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Sarah Jane Evans investigates an array of events as the British Australia Bicentennial approaches. |
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Ann Hills investigates the development of Mingulay a speck of Island at the southern tip of the Western Isles |
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Chris Durston records how the monstrous and the supernatural were seized on by political and religious factions in seventeenth century England as signs of judgment... |
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Crispin Robinson looks into one of Sir John Soanes restoration of of Pitschanger Manor. |
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Annette Bingham reports on an environmental project in Sri Lanka. |
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'Revisionism' has now become a historian's catch-phrase. Long-cherished interpretations of upheavals in British and European history have been re-examined. In this... |
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