Volume: 39 Issue: 9
Contents of History Today, September 1989 |
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Sharp practice or sharp 'prentice? Paul Seaver argues that the tale of how a Bristol notary and his erstwhile trainee fell out and went to court in 1620 tells us... |
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Charlemagne may have been the first Holy Roman Emperor but what did he do to dispel the 'Dark Ages'? Mary Alberi looks at the work of his leading court... |
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Alexander Kazhdan considers the influence of totalitarianism and meritocracy in the Byzantine empire – and its relationship to the growth of the Russian and other... |
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Peter Parker describes the difficulties in writing historical biographies and his effort on writer and editor J.R. Ackerley. |
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Tony Aldous on the restoration of a mansion of an outstanding early 18th-century Scottish architect. |
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Rosemary Burton on a handbook for Hadrian's Wall |
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Clare Thomson on the pace of change in the Baltic States. |
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Richard Cavendish visits an organisation devoted to the maps and plans of the capital's past. |
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Ann Hills explores long-term excavations on the ancient Central American civilisation. |
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A country divided, degenerate and in cultural decline? Robert Oresko examines the changing views historians are developing of Italy between the sixteenth and... |
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