Volume: 50 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 2000 |
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The High Street Londinium exhibition at the Museum of London |
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A reflection on the life of this great historian, who died in April 2000. |
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Robert Bickers shows how the history of British and European imperialism in China helps explain the ferocious Boxer War of 1900. |
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Harriet Jones considers the impact of the new Freedom of Information Act on students of contemporary history. |
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David Chandler describes his first encounters with matters military that led him to abandon his plans to join the clergy to become a military historian. |
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The remains of the Roman fort of Segedunum, marking the eastern end of Hadrian’s wall and its new interpretation centre. |
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History Today’s review of current trends in historical study at British universities. |
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Richard Monte looks at the history and heritage on show in Kracow, one of the European Cities of Culture 2000. |
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Mike Corbishley explains how English Heritage, custodian of much of the best of England’s built historical environment, makes the past accessible to young... |
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Erica Fudge explores a shift in attitudes towards bestiality in the sixteenth century and how this impinged on wider issues concerning human status. |
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Steven Gunn looks at the condition of Britain at the beginning of the Tudor era, and finds a society that was increasingly cohesive, confident and cosmopolitan.... |
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Sarah Searight finds that, in the past as in the present, Caspian oil has produced political conflict as well as economic development. |
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The State Trials on CD Rom |
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John Marriott looks at attitudes to the London poor since the 17th century. |
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August 17th, 1850 |
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August 2nd, 1100 |
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Wilbur Miller investigates the historical background to law enforcement in the United States. |
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August 5th, 1600 |
