Volume: 41 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 1991 |
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Geoffrey Clarke on netting the Poll Tax in Hastings. |
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Tony Aldous examines the tensions over digging and conserving in historic town centres such as Lincoln. |
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Until the late 18th century, few criminal defendants thought it worthwhile to engage a lawyer on their behalf; but in the 1780s things suddenly changed. John Beattie... |
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Mira Bar-Hillel on plans to rebuild Poland's Elizabethan theatre. |
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David Birmingham draws on the private papers of an 18th-century Swiss cheese farmer to recreate a world whose business sophistication and economic arrangements cut... |
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Douglas Johnson examines the powerful hold Les Invalides exercises over France's historical mythology. |
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Anne Hills on shutting up shop at Spitalfields. |
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Ann Hughes continues our articles on the Civil War period by investigating the controversies in public debate and the printed word that fuelled religious arguments... |
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Andrew Boyd tells the story of the ill-fated mission of a papal nuncio whose blundering zeal doomed the hopes of Irish Catholics of profiting from the civil war... |
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Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart had a distinguished career as a diplomat, writer and director-general of Churchill's Political Warfare Executive during the Second World... |
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John Crowfoot considers the role flags and anthems have played in defining Soviet and Russian identities, past and present. |
