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Volume: 48 Issue: 9

Contents of History Today, September 1998

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The massacre of the army of Sudanese Dervishes on a plain near Omdurman on September 2nd, 1898, was an occasion that a new military technology by Britain in battle...

1930s Shanghai was notoriously populated by characters of dubious political and moral allegiances. Bernard Wasserstein shows how the Japanese used their contacts...

September 21st, 1898

Options on Heritage Open Days, including the Gunpowder Mills

New ownership plans for History Today.

September 30th, 1938

Peter Furtado on the creation of a vast online photographic library

The image of the American Civil War as a ‘white man’s fight’ became the national norm almost as soon as the last shot was fired. Susan-Mary Grant looks at the...

John W. Mason gives the historical background to this month's elections in Slovakia.

Pauline Croft on an art exhibition in Belgium on Albert and Isabella of Austria.

Mark Goldie celebrates a new Bill of Rights and looks at its precedent

Peter Monteach comments on German historian Christian Gerlach's study of Adolf Hitler's announcement of his "decision in principle" to murder all of Europe's Jews...

Christopher Dyer uncovers a hidden village in North Yorkshire.

Michael Camille shows how the marginal illustrations of a 14th-century psalter became some of our most familiar images of everyday life in medieval England.


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