1993

Three new works on labour history

Susan Raven reviews two new books

Gary Rawnsey puts in a plea for greater recognition of radio monitoring as a historical source.

A.J.R. Russell-Wood

Iwan Morgan on modern America and Americans

Without the economic muscle of the Netherlands' largest city, William III would never have been able to stage Britain's 'Glorious Revolution' or urge European war...

Works by Max Beloff and G.R. Elton

Aram Bakshian tells the story of the peasant carpenter who became a brilliant guerrilla leader and national hero, and who struggled to wrest a free Armenia from...

Tony Aldous examines the case of a wind farm which is threatening the archaeological site of Mynydd y Gwair in Wales.

Ray Laurence on how the myth of the classical urbs bewitched 20th-century town planners.

Tom August explores the imperial assumptions - and the hints of independence from Britannia - to be found in the paintings and artists on show in the Palace of...

Our round-up of the offerings from publishers in Autumn 1993 previewing interesting and intriguing history books for both the general reader and the specialist.

Keith Nurse explores the findings of a post excavations studies carried out on an ancestral burial ground in Warwickshire.

Ann Hills examines the work of the York Archaeological Trust on Barley Hall.

Tony Aldous discusses the proposals for an enlarged Bede Museum in the North-East.

Four new books on the ancient world

Did past ages look upon babies and their needs with less than starry eyes? Nicholas Tucker sifts the evidence from the cradle in history.

John Geipel chronicles the tenacity of the tongue in Brazil's Indian heritage

Three new works on ancient central American civilisations

Richard Cavendish finds plenty to chew the cud on, courtesy of the BAHS

Two new books on British politics

Three new books on Britain and her Empire

David Englander reviews two new works on British politics and the First World War

Gordon Marsden on the Independent Labour Party centenary.

Kate Lowe reviews

Edward Norman on the Eastern promise of Western sainthood to be encountered in the Church of the Bom Jesus in Goa.

Three new books on the British statesman.

'You are Monarchial No. 1 and value tradition, form and ceremony.' But was Clementine Churchill's encomium of her husband always reflected in Winston's personal...

Three new books on British and French politicians in the 20th century

New book on Britain from the end of the 18th-century to the Second World War

Ian Kershaw reviews three new works on the Third Reich

Joachim Bumke

With a hey nonny-no - but the courtship of Elizabethan lads and lasses was not quite as buccolic as the madrigals suggest, as Eric Carlson explains.

Did Andres Aranda Ortiz die for his crimes or his anarchist beliefs in a Barcelona prison just before Christmas 1934? Chris Ealham considers an episode that lays...

Anthony McElligott argues that municipal confrontation and the decline of civic virtue in the 20s and 30s played an important part in letting the Nazis rise to power...

Francis Robinson reviews two new books on imperialism and the Middle East

Art and artists

Brian Stone reviews three books.

by Adrian Desmond and James Moore

Jean Lacouture

Missing person or ritual murder? Richard Rathbone probes a cause célèbre from an age of colonial and tribal transition.

Edited by John Dunn

Hardyesque idyll or a vision of dereliction and random cruelty? Alun Howkins looks at how historians have treated the story of nineteenth-century rural Britain.

The best-loved of Britain's novelists penned a tale that struck a potent chord in the popular revival of the season of goodwill. Geoffrey Rowell explains its...

Three new publications on the American West

Anne Kershen asks if Docklands residents have always had a rough deal from developers - Victorian as well as 80s.

A recently published book on the Tudor queen

Keith Hopkins takes us on a tour de force via original texts of the hopes, dreams, assumptions and frustrations of the Roman schoolboy.

Compilation of essays from the Journal of Military History

Ian Bradley reviews

Michael Paris looks at how science fiction and popular literature shaped personal prejudices and political agendas about 'destruction from the skies'.

Ian Bradley reviews

Peter Atkins finds that though we might be considering toll roads, the Victorians were glad to get rid of them.

Barry Coward reviews three new works on England during the early modern period

Paul Dukes looks at how history, like everything else in Russia, is being turned inside out.

Ann Hills looks at a little-known treasure trove: the archives of London Zoo.

Edited by E. Roesdahl and D. Wilson

National Trust work to restore the gardens of Stowe

Raymond Postgate is well-known today as the founder of The Good Food Guide, but he was also a vivid eyewitness of events as a Londoner under siege from Hitler's...

Charles Carlton

Barry Gough offers a Canada-eye-view on the commemorations and controversy of the Columbus Quincentenary.

Two new publications on the Labour legend

Ben Pimlott

Michael Jones reviews

Bernard Wasserstein

Greg Walker reassesses the evidence for believing that Lollard 'known men' and other evangelicals acted as the underground army that undermined the medieval...

Three new works on religious traditions in England

Why did Germany declare war on the US in December 1941? Nicholas Henderson considers motives and consequences in the days before and after Pearl Harbor.

Family favourites: Jean Wilson sifts through group portraits and monuments for clues as to whether relationships were intimate or remote in early modern England.

Two new works on European politics and business

Edited by Luisa Passerini

What was it like to be a 'boiled octopus' in the silk mills of Japan before the First World War? Janet Hunter looks at the life and conditions of the women who...

Anthony Goodman

Margaret Jervis on a new exhibition at the British Museum on the Egyptian empire.

Stuart Andrews reviews

Margaret Lucille Kekewich reviews a series of books.

Capturing the spirit of America - Erin Cho looks at the building blocks of American childhood and the objectives of their creator.

Oriental dealers Eskenazi and their new London outlet

Two new books on revolutionary France

Vivian Nutton reviews

Stuart Hall on Victorian riots on stage

Richard Cavendish looks at an exhibition at the Museum of London on the diversity of the capital.

Hugh David takes in war, peace and the Kennedys.

Three new books on Scotland, labour, gender and society

The cases of women in early modern England who claimed to survive by little but faith alone are described by Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth.

Money makes the world go around: Kathleen Burk looks at how the Yankee dollar transferred influence from the Old World to the New.

Peter Ling compares the impact of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on black culture in the 90s.

What made medieval monks laugh? Edward Coleman looks at humour, holy men and the sub-texts of comment in 12th-century England.

Peter Hennessy

Iain Smith looks at how teaching history is being turned upside down in South Africa today.

Paul Cartledge, Paul Millett and Stephen Todd (ed.)

Tony Aldous on the recent work of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit

A discussion on the new Ironworks opened recently by the V&A.

Ian Fitzgerald delves into the century-old archives of BP in Warwickshire.

Paul Dukes reviews a new book on Paul I of Russia by Roderick E. McGrew.

The history of the controversy over People's Park in Berkeley CA is discussed. The...

Richard Ollard

Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.

Rachel Braverman on a shocking American realist.

Richard Eales looks at how politics and chess have mated more in history through to the present day.

For some in the years 1789-94, the people's drama in Paris was not fast enough at reflecting a world turned upside down. Michele Root-Bernstein looks at what was...

The elaborate funeral portraits of Poland's 17th-century nobility are a window on their self-image and lifestyle, as Bozena Grabowska discusses here. (Translated...

Ian MacDonald looks at how the Edwardian political battle on tariff reform and the career of Joseph Chamberlain was advanced via the postcard.

Tony Aldous looks into the recently founded Historic Chapels Trust.

Three new publications looking at the future

Charlotte Crow on the creation of a patchwork history of the women of Preston.

W.A. Speck reviews three new books on Stuart England

Christopher Chippindale on a Stonehenge for all seasons.

Geoffrey Tweedale on Sheffield's history of steelmaking.

Peter Heehs describes how Hindu revivalism stiffened resistance to colonial rule in British India.

Diana Webb explores three new works on the Renaissance.

Two new books on the French Revolution

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska questions the reality of rationing for Britain’s Royal family during the war and after.

Edited by Paul Dukes

Every commune had to have one - Diana Webb explains how the cult of a holy man or woman and civic PR went hand-in-hand in medieval Italy.

Ann Hills on the UNESCO masterplan to rescue Petra.

Raymond Smith and Nicholas Young chart the history of human waste disposal.

Michael Leech on Eastern Art Deco

Michael Grant remembers the History Today Editor and his expertise in bringing history to the attention of the wider public.

The celebrations of a central London Protestant community

Blake Pinnell explains how an ancient tradition got out of hand and drained the public purse of 18th-century England.

Our round-up of the offerings from publishers in Spring 1993 previewing interesting and intriguing history books for both the general reader and the specialist.

Robert Edelman unravels the intriguing tale of the politics behind the rise-and-fall of a crack Red Army football team during the Cold War.

Ann Hills gets to the bottom of heritage whodunnits in Shrewsbury.

Michael Rand Hoare probes the truth behind a little-known massacre which is reverberating in Taiwanese politics today.

Felix Barker explores two new works on British geography.

Richard Shannon

Jeremy Black reviews

John Powell chronicles the activities of a Midlands ring of counterfeiters whose activities open a window on the economic and social ambiguities of late Georgian...

Robert Lewis reviews The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution.

Tabloid intrusion into the lives of the famous via the photo lens was a feature of Edwardian, as well as contemporary, Britain, as Nicholas Hiley here intriguingly...

Mary Beard looks at the new ways of thinking about what life was like for women in Greece and Rome.

Richard Cavendishon the modes and manners of the Costume Society

Robert Stradling presents an intriguing new interpretation as to who the legendary Lothario actually was, and lifts the lid on questions of conspiracy and sexual...

Set–piece contests about industrial pollution are nothing new – as Ronald Rees reveals in this tale of epic legal struggles in south Wales during the Industrial...

A new biography of Edmund Burke

Nigel Saul reviews a new work on the House of Commons from 1386-1421

Mark Stoyle uncovers the juvenile delinquency of the man who saved the Stuart monarchy and brought back Charles II.

New book son Oxford University

Julia Neuberger reviews two books on Jewish European history.

Robert Frost reviews.

Keith Nurse investigates new archaeological findings linking wine producing to Roman England.

An article about a project in exploring Jewish instrumental music

Paul Gillingham looks at a kowtow fiasco and a failure in Anglo-Chinese understanding.

Richard Cavendish discovers that old ships do not just die or fade away, thanks to the Maritime Trust.

Hated by many, mistrusted by all: a fair verdict on Randal MacDonnell the man who wheeled and dealed across Scotland and Ireland in the troubled era of Civil War and...

Kings knight knights, but who knights kings? Peter Linehan looks at how Alfonso XI got round the problem and in the process strengthened his hold on his kingdom....

by Nicholas Henshall

An absurd procession of chivalry or mad mass charges? Analysis of fighting in the Middle Ages has become more subtle than either of these scenarios, argues Sean...

Colin Matthew lays out a stall for the new Dictionary of National Biography

Gabriel Ronay looks at how Scottish sainthood got tangled up in Hungarian politics.

Richard Robinson uncovers the history of a city in Ecuador

Richard Cavendish storms the heights of Victorian Francophobia with the Palmerston Forts Society.

Phillip Buckner looks at the characteristics of a double wave of colonisation between 1700 and 1900, which gave Canada its unique character.

Elizabeth Manning looks at how an Enlightenment ruler enlisted opera in his struggle to homogenise and reinforce the Habsburg empire.

Kevin Sharpe reviews

Pauline Croft looks at how gossipy libel about sex, health and money hit the image of James I's chief minister.

Alan Clinton considers the legendary Resistance fighter Jean Moulin, the memory of whose fate still makes waves in France today.

Religion and belief in early modern England and America

Louis Kleber reviews.

Chris Springer looks at how the Confederate Flag has become a symbol of 20th-century rebellion.

John Black considers how the Victorians got away from privatising prisons.

How should we view Thomas Jefferson? Colin Bonwick offers his assessment of the man as America's third president, party leader and Enlightenment enthusiast.

An insight into how the activities of Allied crews from the ill-fated PQ-17 Arctic convoy of 1942 to wartime Russia were viewed by one of Stalin's commissars. The...

Why did the visit of a Buddhist holy man to Lhasa at the turn of the century throw the British Foreign Office into a state of paranoia? Helen Hundley explores the...

New publications on the history of Latin America

Richard Cavendish introduces the Society which seeks to preserve 20th century buildings.

Charlotte Crow highlights the Treasures of Eurasia exhibition at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, and The George Ortiz Collection at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine...

Ivan Roots reviews two new publications on England in the Renaissance

Ian Bradley assesses

Richard Monte looks at the integration of Western ideas into native cultures.

Nigel Saul reviews these two new publications

Michael Antonucci discerns Byzantine origins in today's international power politics.

Christopher Marshall

Richard Hodges looks at the Pompeii controversy and asks if Britain does any better.

Elisabeth Ferry explains why US women did not breakthrough in politics between the wars, despite having won the vote.

Hitler may have thought women were there for cooking, children and church, but recent research has shown that female attitudes to, and involvement in, the apparatus...