Volume: 49 Issue: 9
Contents of History Today, September 1999 |
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Christopher Harvie examines Scottish cultural identity since the Act of Union, and argues that writers and intellectuals have been the real keepers of the national... |
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Clarissa Campbell Orr explains the recent revival in the history of courts, from those of the Byzantine emperors to that of Hitler. |
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September 19th, 1899 |
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Paul Dukes welcomes the current boom in historical fiction - but says novelists need to ground their stories in a soil of solid fact. |
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The sorry history of ethnic conflict in the Balkans, concluding that forgeign intervention has needlessly fanned the flames of nationalism. |
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Peter Catterall dives into the history of the alphabet soup in which electoral reform has become enmired. |
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Richard O. Collin tells the story of Italy’s parallel police forces, and how they have contended with Mussolini, the Red Brigades – and the Mafia. |
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C.S.L. Davies writes an obituary of the social historian. |
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Loyd Grossman explains how a gifted teacher from Maine inspired his love of the past, and encouraged him to plunge his hands into a mixing bowl of Plaster of Paris.... |
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Mao Zedong was elected Chairman of the Central People's Government on September 30th, 1949. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of September 22nd, 1499. |
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Tony Aldous on the changes afoot for a historic area of south London in Millennium Year and beyond. |
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Nigel Saul explores the deposition of Richard II, arguing that the king’s malice and misrule forced Henry Bolingbroke to destroy him. |
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Fernandez-Armesto reviews "Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleet in the Sixteenth Century" by Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina, translated by Carla Rahn... |
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On June 13th the historian, Walter Rodney, died in a car explosion in Georgetown. Mystery surrounds his death, with the Guyanan regime claiming he was killed by a... |
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Stewart Binns introduces the new series which uses colour film footage found of the conflict. |
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Toby Osborne looks back over the career of Van Dyck, on the 400th anniversary of his death. |
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Simon Fowler describes the huge upsurge in charity work in Britain in the First World War, concluding that it was an important way of uniting the nation behind the... |
