Volume: 40 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, January 1990 |
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Bruce Nelson traces how the magic of FDR and his practical social programmes welded American labour to the Democratic Party, and discusses the tensions that... |
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David Bates and Peter Furtado describe Philadelphia's preparations to honour the death of Benjamin Franklin. |
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Pious nobleman or calculating humbug - what is the true characterisation of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester? Simon Adams sifts the motives for the patronage given... |
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The author of this 4000-year-old hymn to one God has been portrayed as a mad idealist who turned the civilisation of the pharaohs upside down. John Ray discusses... |
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Conservation awards |
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Robert Waller on the history, dangers and importance of opinion polls. |
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Hugh David on Victoriana and Tony Benn |
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Michael Diamond discusses what popular songs and singers had to say about Britain's politicians in the 1880s and 1890s. |
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Irrational chauvinists or fearful protectionists? Gordon Daniels looks at the new research and arguments reshaping our view of Japan's rulers before and after... |
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Solidarity forever? Not by 1951, Robert Zieger argues, when the visit of one of American labour's great heroes to a celebratory rally at a Ford Motors complex near... |
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Ann Hills on a major new appeal to aid a School famous for its archaeology and exhibitions. |
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Aram Bakshian on the historic tensions of Islam and secular nationalism |
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Pamela Tudor-Craig tours the cathedrals of the Kremlin |
