Volume: 53 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 2003 |
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Jerry Brookshire shows that the ‘special relationship’ in 1945-51 was in safe, and curiously similar, hands. |
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Steve Smith shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past. |
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Adrian Mourby shows that the nightmare scenario can be both dire warning and escapist fantasy. |
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A.D. Harvey recalls the career of the Swedish king whose assassination inspired a famous opera. |
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Scot McKendrick introduces a major new exhibition of Flemish manuscript illumination opening at the Royal Academy. |
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Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was executed on December 23rd, 1953. He was fifty-four, if it was really him. |
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David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.... |
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In the final article in our series on Britain and Russia, Stuart Thompstone visits the long-lasting community of Britons in the Russian capital. |
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Charlotte Crow glimpses the British Museum’s new exhibition of its own original collections in the great King’s Library. |
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Peter Furtado introduces the December 2003 issue of History Today. |
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Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past. |
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It was the Gadsden Purchase on December 30th, 1853, that settled the main boundaries of the USA. |
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December 27th, 1703 |
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Colin Cook looks at the political, philosophical and cultural impact of the idea of aviation in the first half of the 20th century. |
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David Jordan recalls the career of the man Brazilians claim to have been the true pioneer of powered heavier-than-air flight. |
