Volume: 48 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 1998 |
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Nicholas Bourbon was a humanist, poet and religious reformer, and a member of Anne Boleyn’s circle. Eric Ives shows how his work throws new light on the Henrician... |
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August 1st, 1798 |
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The American Civil War provided commercial opportunities for the sailors and industrialists of Glasgow, not all of them in line with official government policy.... |
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August 3rd 1948 |
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The author of 'Wuthering Heights' died on December 19, 1848, aged 30. |
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One of Elizabeth I's court favourites died on August 4th, 1598, aged 77. |
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The 1954 lawsuit brought against the US Army by Joseph McCarthy marked a turning point in public attitude towards the ‘Red Scare’ Senator. Thomas Doherty tells how... |
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Richard Cavendish visits Traquair House, in Peeblesshire |
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John Adler explores the changing interpretations of Shakespeare’s history plays on stage - from Garrick to the new Globe. |
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Before 1867, Alaska was a Russian fur-trading colony, its values and laws derived from Moscow and, in part, from the European Enlightenment. Ernest Sipes looks at the... |
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Women as perpetrators of crime, rather than its victims, were figures of especial fascination and loathing in the Victorian popular press. Judith Knelman delves... |
