Volume: 51 Issue: 5
Contents of History Today, May 2001 |
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Jim Kelsey looks at the current transformation of the Royal Albert Hall. |
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Geoffrey Best, doyen of Victorian history, demonstrates that not all leading scholars start out as swots |
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On the 60th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Hood, Malcolm Gaskill looks at the prosecution of medium Helen Duncan for witchcraft in 1944. |
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Julian Swann reviews real and imagined conspiracies in early modern Europe. |
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David Brewer shows that while ‘ethnic truth’ does little to explain history, history does much to explain ‘ethnic truth’ |
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Richard Cavendish recalls the death of the pirate William Kidd, executed on May 23rd, 1701. |
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Siegfried Beer looks at the links between The Third Man and British intelligence. |
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Adam I.P. Smith casts a sceptical eye on the current craze for historical re-enactments |
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Philip Stott unravels the emergence of myths about the tropical rain forests. |
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Jan Bonderson describes a bizarre series of assaults on London ladies in 1790, and explores the effects of this and other heinous crime epidemics on the capital.... |
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David Cannadine sees the British Empire as a spectacular and colourful extension of the social order of the home country |
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May 3rd, 1751 |
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Daniel Snowman previews a new exhibition in Berlin. |
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Anthony Bryer considers the life and work of this great historian, who died in November 2000. |
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Richard Cavendish describes the events leading up to the nationalisation of Iranian oil fields on May 2nd, 1951. |
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Peter H. Wilson suggests that the aggressiveness of Wilhelmine Germany was not necessarily a direct consequence of the Prussian social system of the eighteenth... |
