Volume: 44 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 1994 |
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Edward Ranson describes how a 17-day political dogfight in New York revealed the faults in American society in the Roaring Twenties. |
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Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom? |
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How the Livery companies of London prepare to show they are ready for the millennium |
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John Springhall finds 1950s echoes in the current controversy about children and horror videos. |
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Judith Rice on a sixteenth-century sect in the modern world. |
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Richard Cavendish discovers the riches and Diaspora and beyond in the Manchester Jewish museum. |
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Explanation about the myth history of Middle Ages Switzerland. |
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E. Hall looks at the methods used in ancient Greece to court public opinion in the light of the modern media and messages of democratic politics today. |
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Bill Wallace looks at the mixed inheritance of democratic ideas in Mother Russia and beyond as possible auguries for the future of the regimes that have succeeded... |
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Tim Knox looks at how the explosion of interest in all things Chinese in 18th-century Britain found a centrepiece in the royal gardens of George III. |
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Ralph Harrington looks at the paranoias that railway travel stirred up as it spread across the 19th century. |
