Volume: 42 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 1992 |
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Lawrence James looks at the melange of racial theory, economic interest and Boys' Own 'derring-do' that fuelled European ambitions for a 'place in the sun'. |
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Norman Bainbridge looks at the events to mark Nottinghamshire's role in the English Civil War. |
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Trevor Fisher chronicles the backlash against libertarianism in art and literature in the closing years of the Victorian era. |
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Neil Evans on the Continent's Celtic connections |
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M.R.D. Foot offers a fresh view on the 1942 Allied raid on Nazi-occupied France and its lessons for D-Day. |
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A new museum and tours dedicated to the battles of the Somme |
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Pictures worth a thousand words - William Coupe traces, via cartoons, the changes in attitudes and public opinion in the Kaiser's Germany towards the First World... |
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Anthony Gross traces the tenacious efforts of Henry VI's partisans to regain the throne from the House of York, and at a strange alliance that nearly paid off.... |
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Tony Aldous discusses the missing millions in the art world |
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Paul K. Martin with an eyewitness account of Barcelona's rival Olympics of 1936. |
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Did the system spawn a monster - or a monster the system? Norman Pereira re-evaluates the road to totalitarianism in the Soviet Union after the Revolution, and... |
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Operation 'Rutter' was launched on August 19th, 1942. Here, M.R.D. Foot reassesses views of the Allied attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe. |
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by Euan Cameron |
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Richard Cavendish carves out some monumental history in Derbyshire |
