Volume: 48 Issue: 11
Contents of History Today, November 1998 |
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Jay Winter describes the mixed emotions of combatants and non-combatants at the moment the Great War ended. |
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Our seasonal preview of new books. |
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Alex Werner previews a new exhibition on skeletons at the Museum of London. |
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Rebecca Daniels celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Victorian Society, which set out in 1958 to save nineteenth-century architectural gems from destruction... |
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The Darien Colony was founded by Scottish emigrants on November 3rd, 1698. But it all went horribly wrong. |
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Peter Furtado examines a long-term internet project to chart every known Canadian war grave. |
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The latest multimedia innovations and their usefulness to historians. |
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The troubled history of the region, and the deep-rooted antagonisms between the different ethnic groups laying claim to it. |
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Ian Bremner reviews the Steven Spielberg film about D-Day and after |
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Marina Warner traces the origins of a lifetime’s curiosity in the power of stories. |
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Richard Cavendish highlights a new exhibition at the Tate which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Historic Houses Association. |
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Brian Catchpole remembers the sufferings and heroism of the Commonwealth Division in the first major conflict of the Cold War. |
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Isaac Watts died on November 25th, 1748, aged seventy-four, in Stoke Newington, Hackney. |
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John Adamson argues that the importance of the Celtic fringe in the events of the 1640s has been exaggerated. |
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Seeing the potential of the new technology, William Henry Smith opened his first railway bookstall on November 1st, 1848. |
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Stephen Williams and Gerard Friell analyse why Constantinople survived the barbarian onslaughts in the fifth century, whereas Rome fell. |
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Jane Ohlmeyer argues that the English Civil War was just one of an interlocking set of conflicts that encompassed the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century |
