Volume: 47 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, January 1997 |
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Penny Johnston introduces the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland. |
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James Walvin on how tea, sugar and tobacco hooked Britons into a fondness for the fruits of imperial expansion. |
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Fools' gold, Dr Faustus - traditional images of a Renaissance black art. But was there more to it than that? Zbigniew Szydlo and Richard Brzezinski offer... |
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Michael Leech celebrates the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. |
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Christopher Dyer argues for an upgrading of the town’s importance in the Middle Ages. |
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Rivoli, Battle of |
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Lev Razgon's unique and chilling encounter with one of Stalin's mass murderers. |
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Ronan Thomas takes a look at the cultures of Korea after becoming independent from Japan in 1945. |
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Peter Cotgreave explains how modern scientists can use their predecessors' data. |
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Brian Winston casts a critical eye over Leni Riefenstahl's cinematic paean to Nazi aesthetics. |
