Volume: 52 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 2002 |
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Roland Quinault discusses Gladstone’s view of the Second Afghan War both in opposition and during his premiership. |
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John M.D. Pohl reviews recent scholarship about the empire swept away by Cortes. |
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December 31st, 1502 |
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Conrad Russell looks at the perks and pitfalls of public office-holding in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. |
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Gavin Menzies explains how a life as a submarine commander gave rise to the revolutionary notion that Europeans were not the first to sail round the globe. |
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David Welch looks at the dramatisation of Führerprinzip in the Nazi cinema, and how history films were used to propagate themes of anti-parliamentarianism... |
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George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, became Prime Minister on December 19th, 1852. |
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Pamela Pilbeam celebrates the bicentenary of the arrival of Madame Tussaud's waxworks in Britain. |
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Andrew Barclay marks the 300th anniversary of the death of William III. |
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Joan Perkin discusses the impact on women’s lives of the advent of the sewing machine. |
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Kevin Manton regrets the political decision to remove direct democratic control over education a hundred years ago. |
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Luke McKernan introduces the British Universities Newsreel Database, together with plans for its development. |
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December 14th, 1702 |
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Devra Davis looks at the London Smog disaster of 1952-53. |
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As a new channel dedicated to history opens up in the UK, Tom Stearn excoriates current fashion and points the way to a more historical past on TV. |
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Howard Baker explains how the chance convergence of two vessels produced tragedy and disaster. |
