Volume: 47 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 1997 |
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Bernice Archer opens our new series with an account of the intriguing hidden messages stitched into Red Cross quilts by British women POWs of the Japanese. |
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Joad Raymond on a previously unpublished insight into the personality and projection of 'Lord Oliver' during Britain's unique 1650s experience. |
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Russell Chamberlin looks at the renaissance of Bolivia's Jesuit mission |
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Ivor Wynne Jones on how a dusty garage in Cairo was once the unlikely setting for keeping up British morale with 'Music for All'. |
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With Hong Kong returning to Chinese rule, Roger Thompson looks at when the colony influenced reformers who tried to bring the ballot box to the Middle Kingdom.... |
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Richard Cavendish charts the life and work of Edmund Burke, who died on July 9th, 1797. |
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Paul Preston amplifies recent claims that Franco offered safe havens to fugitive Nazis |
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The son of a fisherman's revolt against Spanish taxes on fruit in Naples, on July 7th, 1647, was part of a wider challenge to Spanish overlordship throughout the... |
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James M. Brophy describes how the Carnival in 19th-century Cologne held a subversive hidden agenda of protest against Prussian overlordship. |
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July 24th, 1847 |
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Christopher Harvie brings into the light a little-known pioneer of European federalism |
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Richard Hodges unites oral tradition and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the story of the Dark Age destruction of an Italian monastery |
