Volume: 48 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 1998 |
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New research suggests the Beowulf poem can be traced to North Kent. |
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Jim Broderick looks at the crisis management of two moments when the spectre of nuclear war shadowed relations between the superpowers. |
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December 31st, 1928 |
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A sample selection of books and gifts for children and adults with a historical theme. |
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Attempts to regrow the Glastonbury thorn after it died in 1991. |
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Dominic Janes describes how the early Church reconciled its teaching of holy poverty with the accumulation and display of spectacular wealth. |
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Prince Louis Napoleon was forty when he won the election for the French presidency on December 10th, 1848. |
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Tony Aldous considers the Landmark Trust: an organisation that maintains historic properties and lets them out to holidaymakers.Enthusiasts for holidaying in... |
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The importance of teaching history to younger children and the risks of its removal as a key subject from the primary curriculum |
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Ronald Hutton describes the origins of his historical quest for self-discovery. |
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Ian Bradley reflects on the origins and development of Christmas carols. |
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Jeremy Black looks at the Royal Mail’s decision to devote all their stamps in 1999 to British history over the last millennium. |
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Gordon Marsden on the origins and future of the project to chart the history of the Houses of Parliament. |
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On December 20th, 1898, Pierre Curie scrawled the word 'radium' in his notebook as the name for a new element he and his wife Marie had discovered in their... |
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How did Britain, though assumed to be bankrupt, pursue an anti-Communist economic war from 1945. Ian Locke examines the case. |
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Laura Rodriguez finds that, in spite of the devastating outcome for Spain of the Cuban conflict of 1898, there were some positive consequences. |
