Volume: 49 Issue: 4
Contents of History Today, April 1999 |
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Denis Judd questions the role of Empire in defining Britain’s identity in relation to Europe and the rest of the world. |
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Robert Garland investigates the ancient origins of the calendar and time-keeping systems of the Western world. |
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The Hungarian Diet issued its manifesto for independence on April 14th, 1849. |
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Thirty years later, Douglas Johnson reconsiders the circumstances in which de Gaulle relinquished his position as President of France and his mythic legacy in... |
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John Sullivan charts the fortunes of the radical Basque nationalist movement in its attempts to gain independence from Spain. |
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Britain's relationship with the sea presented at the re-opened National Maritime Museum. |
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News of an exhibition of wall-painting that will travel around the country. |
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Oliver Cromwell was born on April 25th, 1599. Richard Cavendish charts his early life until his election as a member of parliament for Huntingdon in 1628. |
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Vladimir Batyuk describes how the Gorbachev reforms, and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union, changed Moscow’s view of the world. |
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was founded on April 4th, 1949. |
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Alfio Bernabei discovers evidence of a plot to kill the Italian dictator in the early 1930s. |
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Beginning our new series on the history and development of policing, Clive Emsley sets the scene with a broad discussion of the origins and issues of early... |
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Dr Nicholas Tate tells how an old-fashioned museum sparked a childhood, but lasting, interest in the past. |
