Volume: 38 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 1988 |
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Alexander Johnson on how changes in the Manpower Services Commission will impact on state-run projects. |
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Bill Wallace looks at the anniversary of the Prague Spring in 1968. |
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The grandest African ruins south of the Sahara and the enigmatic discovery of Ming China there. |
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Annette Bingham traces the status of a synagogue in the Far East |
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Hugh David considers the topic of historical anniversaries |
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Were the Germans justified in executing a British merchant captain for ramming a U-boat in March 1915? Phyllis Hall considers a curious episode from the First... |
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J.S. Cummins considers the impact of syphilis on the 16th-century world – a tale of rapid spread, guilt, scapegoats and wonder-cures, with an uncomfortable modern... |
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Sun, sea, sand and ... salesmanship. Nigel Yates describes the mixture served up by English coastal resorts to lure the visitor to a cornucopia of attractions... |
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Judith Herrin considers the Jekyll-and-Hyde output of Justinian's court historian, alternately respectful official chronicler and tabloid-style exposer of imperial... |
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A small, far-away country, but one whose tangled relations with its neighbours, Ian Armour suggests, lead inexorably to the debacle of 1914. |
