Volume: 50 Issue: 10
Contents of History Today, October 2000 |
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Samantha Riches describes the role of St. George as a patron saint in medieval England |
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On October 8th 1600, Thomas Fisher published A Midsummer Night's Dream in quarto format thought to have been printed from Shakespeare’s own handwritten copy.... |
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Jeffrey Green argues that to ignore the diverse black presence in Britain prior to the 1940s is to perpetuate a distorted view of British history |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, the most famous historian of his time, was born on St Crispin's Day, October 25th, 1800. |
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Simon Young recounts the history of the long-forgotten British Celt colony off the Galician coast |
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Leah Marcus shows the Tudor queen to have been a mistress of the English language as much as of the English people. |
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Joan Perkin tells the rags-to-riches story of Harriet Mellon, the actress who married the banker Thomas Coutts. |
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History Today’s new prize for the best historical audio-visual work |
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Daniel Snowman meets the biographer of Tudors and Stuarts, and the author of The Weaker Vessel and The Gunpowder Plot. |
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Perry Biddiscombe traces the historical background to the contemporary neo-Nazi and skinhead violence in Germany. |
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Paul Cartledge explores the differences between today’s interpretation of the Olympic Games and their significance in the ancient world |
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Allan Macinnes investigates the state of the islands at a crucial moment in British state formation. |
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Juliet Gardiner former editor of History Today, describes the first steps on her path to becoming a historian. |
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October 7th, 1950 |
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John Ray reviews books by Rosalie David and Joyce Tyldesley |
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John F.M. Clark looks at the changing fortunes of the house sparrow |
