Volume: 51 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, April 2001 |
Contents of History Today, January 2001 |
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Robert Poole contributes to our occasional Film in Context series, with a look at the way in which Stanley Kubrick redefined our views not only of the future, but... |
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Paul Dukes takes a fresh look at the Cold War in the light of some recurring themes of Russian and American history since the 18th century. |
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Started in 1947, to grow peanuts in Tanganyika as a contribution to both the African and British economies, the Groundnuts Scheme was abandoned four years later on... |
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Stephen D. Behrendt marks the advent of an electronic database for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. |
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Guiseppe Verdi, described by the Italian parliament as 'one of the highest expressions of the national genius' died on January 27th, 1901, aged 87. |
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Anthony Bryer takes a Byzantine view of time and identity. |
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History Today celebrates 50 years in print |
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Daniel Snowman meets the biographer of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, media don and constitutional expert. |
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Lyn and Michael Hymers explain what made them reconstruct life during the Blitz for the benefit of television cameras. |
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Lynne Stembridge looks beyond the homespun image of the Shakers, to reveal the substance of the original movement and its sometimes turbulent past. |
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Unearthing the Cumbrian city's Roman past. |
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Annual competition for essays on Oliver Cromwell. |
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The Prussian Kingdom was founded on January 18th, 1701, when the Elector Frederick III had himself crowned Frederick I at Konigsberg. |
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Richard Vinen shows how events of the last 10 years have forced him to rethink his own assumptions about the past. |
