Volume: 47 Issue: 5
Contents of History Today, May 1997 |
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Andy Croll on how publishing anti-social behaviour is a trick we have copied from the Victorians. |
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Penny Young investigates the Tawila tanks of Aden, in Yemen. |
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Alex Barker discusses St Augustine's Abbey Museum. |
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Richard Cavendish describes the brief rule of Cola di Rienzi following his coup d'etat on May 20th, 1347. |
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500 years after their uprising against Henry VII, Mark Stoyle discusses why the Cornish were different - and often rebellious - in Tudor and Stuart England. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 16th, 1847. |
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Lively laity, turbulent priests - Andrew Chandler on how the Anglican establishment has adapted to change in society and the body politic since 1900. |
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Barber examines the medieval Christian view of Muslims and Islam. Casting Islam and Muslims as the enemy was crucial in the Crusades, and the context of conflict... |
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The houses built by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, are a reflection of his career under Henry VIII, says Maurice Howard, and the King's manipulation of those... |
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Alex Barker reports on a History conference at the Tower of London |
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Why did Goering and Goebbels fall out over a performance of Richard III? Gerwin Strobl on this and other intriguing reasons why the Bard mattered to the Third Reich... |
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Richard Cavendish describes the launch of the Second Crusade on May 19th, 1147. |
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Pamela Tudor-Craig on the intriguing webs of history tied into the toy theatre. |
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Simon Thurley sniffs the air in William III's Privy Garden at Hampton Court. |
