Volume: 47 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 1997 |
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Marika Sherwood trawls contemporary reports of the anti-Catholic protests that rocked London in June 1780 to reveal the black men and women who took part,... |
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Richard Cavendish visits Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire. |
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Dirk Bennett sheds new light on the origin and history of chariot racing as a sport, and explores its popular and political role from pre-classical Greece to the fall... |
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David Bates examines a Tudor Christmas Fare at Hampton Court Palace. |
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Ron White draws on the diaries of Samuel Pepys to paint a picture of the festive season in the 1660s. |
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What led middle-class students to join the urban guerrilla movement against the military regime in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s? Alzira Alves de Abreu reports on... |
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Richard Wilkinson weighs up history's verdict on Chamberlain's Secretary of State for War, and asks whether it was Establishment anti-Semitism or professional... |
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Adrian Mourby reflects on the legacy of Nova Scotia's French Acadians. |
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December 26th, 1797 |
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Penelope Corfield shows that ridiculing the learned professions is not a new thing. |
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Ian Fitzgerald surveys developments on the Internet, videos and CD-ROMS relating to the history world. |
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Clive Foss tells how the airship phenomenon caught the imagination of the Soviet Union – becoming a key propaganda tool to Stalin, both at home and abroad. |
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The man who conquered Mexico died on December 2nd, 1547. |
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St Paul's Cathedral was opened on December 2nd, 1697. |
