Volume: 46 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 1996 |
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David Price on the links between the can-can of the 1890s and 1990s lap dancing. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the life and death of Alfred Nobel, December 10th, 1896. |
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Dan Leab looks at a classic Cold War movie and the shadowy figure who inspired it. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 19th, 1796 |
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Denise Silvester-Carr introduces the new Famine Museum at Strokestown, County Roscommon. |
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Richard Cavendish explores a quantity of bygones in the museum of social history. |
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John Tosh examines the intriguing tensions between masculinity and domesticity in 19th-century Britain. |
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The Eternal City was captured after a year-long siege on December 17th, 546. |
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Justin Champion looks at two books on cultural and intellectual change in early modern Europe. |
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Robin Bruce Lockhart celebrates the past and present of the immortal dram and its historic links with our seasonal festivities at Christmas and New Year. |
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Tony Lentin gives an upgraded assessment of Russia's empress 200 years after her death. |
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto on all things English - and Scandinavian |
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Tony Corfield offers a provocative new interpretation of the events that brought Churchill to power in the spring of 1940. |
