Volume: 48 Issue: 10
Contents of History Today, October 1998 |
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Daniel Snowman writes about the new Director of the Institute of Historical Research and author of books on aristocracy, class and the monarchy. |
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Dirk Bennett describes the crowded religious calendar of pagan Rome, and the spiritual market place in which Christianity had to fight for domination. |
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The editor of 'History Today' outlines his plans for the magazine. |
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Patricia Fara investigates how the many paintings, prints and cartoons of Joseph Banks, botanist, explorer and scientific administrator, influenced public attitudes... |
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The Morris Minor was launched at the British Motor Show of 1948, which opened at Earl's Court on October 27th. |
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A Jewish-born Carmelite nun murdered at Auschwitz and due to be canonised by the Pope in October, is claimed to have been betrayed to the Nazis by a high-ranking... |
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October 1st, 1918 |
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Taylor Downing introduces one of the most ambitious television history series of recent years, financed by Turner Broadcasting. |
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Kenneth O. Morgan finds that New Labour stands firmly in the mainstream of British political history. |
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The British Library buys one of the most important manuscripts in England. |
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On October 24th 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia was signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War. |
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Miguel Fernández describes the social conventions that restricted the lives of the upper-class women of 19th-century Havana |
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Dick Geary sums up the latest research into the voting patterns of the German people in the crucial years that brought Hitler to power. |
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David Ellwood shows how the US fought for the people of Europe with an Americanised vision of their future. |
