Volume: 48 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 1998 |
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Charles Webster reflects on the achievements and shortcomings of fifty years of the National Health Service. |
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A 19th-century French novelist’s vision of the future included not just television, air transport and women in the workplace, but also biological warfare and... |
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Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of an important victory for the Habsburg empire, on July 25th, 1848. |
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Chris Wrigley, President of the Historical Association, tells of the new campaign to make history freely available to all who wish to study it. |
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The first chancellor of the German Empire died on July 30th, 1898, aged 83. |
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Penny Young reveals the recent archaeological finds on the Gaza Strip. |
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Charlotte Crow explores a new interactive museum devoted to the First World War. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the opening of the 'Austerity Olympics', July 29th, 1948 |
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Richard Vinen questions whether the recently convicted Maurice Papon was charged with the correct crime. |
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The social, sexual and demonic power of women was an important theme in the popular print of Germany and the Low Countries in the 16th century, as Julia Nurse shows... |
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One hundred years ago a French expedition struggled from the mouth of the Congo to southern Sudan, only to have their plans thwarted by the British. Sarah Searight... |
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Jean Wilson recounts the fascinating tale behind the stone pillar erected by Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke, on a roadside in Cumbria. |
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Roger Hennessy tells of a hundred years of investigation, imagination and speculation about life on Mars. |
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When in 1681 pirate Bartholomew Sharpe captured a Spanish ship and with it a detailed description of the west coast of the Americas, he gave English cartographers... |
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‘There’s no discouragement...Shall make him once relent...His first avowed intent... To be a pilgrim.’ Women, however, endured vexations of their own as... |
