Volume: 47 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 1997 |
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Alex Barker on Harlem's cultural heyday. |
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John Geipel on how the enforced diaspora of the slave trade shaped South America’s largest nation. |
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The French port fell to the English army on August 4th, 1347 |
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Richard Cavendish takes an indepth look into the history of Eastnor Castle. |
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Rosemary O'Day on how new technology is uncovering history from below. |
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Daniel Snowman on commerce and opera over fifty years at Covent Garden. |
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Charlotte Crow introduces a CD-Rom which explores the history of the River Thames. |
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Lucy Jayne Kamau looks at the competing versions of the nineteenth-century pioneer past that folk history and the heritage industry have forged. |
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Ian Locke investigates an intriguing and little-known attempt to commandeer Third Reich assets as reparations - and its mixed results. |
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A cabinet of curiosities or a medium for enlightening the general public? Patricia Fara looks at how debate over democratising scientific knowledge crystalised in... |
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Our survey of reactions and prospects for the subject in British universities after the Dearing Report. |
