Volume: 41 Issue: 9
Contents of History Today, September 1991 |
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Our boys over there? Mark Ellis looks at how America's black newspapers and population reacted to US involvement in the First World War and at the steps the... |
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David Marquand cautions against too pat a 'winners and losers' interpretation of recent history, while asserting that a role remains for theory as opposed to... |
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Richard Cavendish looks at the BALH, a national body set up to promote the popular subject of local history. |
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Penelope Johnston describes China's revered North American hero |
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Babbage’s Difference Engine and the mechanical pre-history of computing. |
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David Lowenthal looks at how landscape has shaped and reflects the English view of themselves. |
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The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here... |
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Peter Clarke breathes a sigh of relief that the 'inevitable triumph of Labour' view of 20th-century British history is being replaced by one both more pluralist and... |
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John Bossy has painstakingly reconstructed from clues and evidence, a hitherto untold story of intellectual intrigue, spying and double-cross in Elizabethan... |
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Milton Goldin compares American philanthropy past and present. |
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The story of Michael Faraday, the genius of electricity, is very much a classic tale of the rise from obscure origins to scientific eminence. But as Frank James... |
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New insights in Celtic history in Europe |
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Ann Hills on fishing tales from Hawaii |
