Volume: 51 Issue: 6
Contents of History Today, June 2001 |
To read any piece marked 
, you'll need a subscription to our online archive
|
Peter Furtado on the collecting bug, and Robert Opie's threatened museum of packaging and advertising. |
|
David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government. |
|
Anthony Kersting, architectural photographer, describes how his passion for buildings was fuelled by a Middle Eastern posting during the War |
|
Beatrice K. Otto finds court jesters across the world and in every age. |
|
June 16th, 1701 |
|
Robert A. Lambert explains the problems arising from a nature conservation success as part of our series on History and the Environmment. |
|
Philip Lyndon Reynolds considers the battle between faith and reason in approaching a key subject of human existence. |
|
Simon Craig finds that bribery scandals in cricket are nothing new and that even Englishmen are not incorruptible. |
|
Richard Godfrey previews the Gillray exhibition at Tate Britain this summer. |
|
Dan van der Vat discusses Jerry Bruckheimer's 2001 film Pearl Harbor and the lessons the US has learned from the attack. |
|
June 5th, 1851 |
|
Helen Rappaport tells the story of James Abbe, a little-known American photographer, whose images of the USSR in the 1930s record both the official and unofficial... |
|
Richard Cavendish explains how the Act of Settlement, signed by William III on June 12th, 1701, brought the Hanoverian dynasty to the throne. |
|
Robert Bickers reviews the legacy of the 1900 uprising. |
|
Michael Hunter tells how a mysterious phenomenon in the Highlands sparked a debate between scientific virtuosi and urban sceptics, in an episode that helps shed light... |
|
Andrew McCulloch draws attention to an important omission from a recent television reconstruction on 1940s London |
|
David Moulson looks at the history of pewter, as a new dedicated museum opens in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
|
|
