Volume: 52 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, January 2002 |
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Margaret Brennand of the Public Record Office on the launch of a major online resource for local and family historians. |
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The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance, the first between a European country and an Asiatic power against a Western rival, was signed on January 30th, 1902. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of January 23rd, 1002. |
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Louis Braille died on January 6th, 1852, aged 43. |
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Continuing our History and the Environment series, Harriet Ritvo looks at the role of big-game hunting in spreading awareness of the need for conservation |
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Jonathan Williams and Andrew Meadows review the history of the various currencies that were replaced by the Euro. |
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Daniel Snowman meets the historian of witches and witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. |
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Richard Connaughton on the need to re-evaluate an over-looked conflict of the early 20th century. |
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Penny Young on new excavations in one of the most historically rich areas in the Middle East. |
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David Blaazer traces rival nationalisms within the British Isles from banknotes. |
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Vivienne Crawford examines the medicinal history of cannabis in Britain. |
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Ian Mabbett considers how Buddhism, while preaching the rejection of society, simultaneously became a popular religion. |
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In his recent Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture to the Royal Historical Society, Peter Hennessy analyses the power relationships within New Labour |
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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Mary Harlow introduce a major conference on clothing in ancient Greece and Rome. |
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Denise Silverster-Carr on the history of this unique resource for research. |
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A.D. Harvey assesses the role of the Soviet Air Force in the defeat of Nazism. |
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Melissa Lane looks at the reputation of the great philosopher. both at the time of is death and in subsequent debates about democracy. |
