Volume: 53 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 2003 |
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Alastair Dunn discusses the battle and its repercussions in its 600th anniversary year. |
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Kents Cavern, Devon, is famous throughout the world for its wealth of archaeology and geology. Margaret Powling investigates the cave’s prehistoric past and looks... |
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Peter Furtado opens the August 2003 issue of History Today. |
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James Williams considers hunting as the ideal pastime for the nobility in the sixteenth century. |
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News and views from History Today readers. |
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Richard Cavendish describes James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor's wedding on August 8th, 1503. |
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Peter Furtado on the appointment of a new Director of the Institute of Historical Research. |
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Adrian Mourby reviews three new works connecting music and politics. |
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Richard Cavendish explores the papacy of Pius X, who was elected on August 4th, 1903. |
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Simon Sebag Montefiore describes an unlikely project to create an English village in Belorussia involving Catherine the Great’s lover and the philosopher Jeremy... |
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Andrew Cook compares notes from Soviet sources and recently released MI5 files on Klaus Fuchs, the British nuclear physicist and spy who helped the Soviet Union... |
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Jonathan Conlin considers the history of heritage panics, from relics to Raphaels. |
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August 31st, 1803 |
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Mikhail Safonov argues that the Beatles did more for the break up of totalitarianism in the USSR than Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. |
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Andrew Smyth recalls the vision and enterprise of one of Louis XIV’s chief ministers and a Béziers businessman. |
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Emily Burns introduces a new weekend event run by English Heritage to bring history – particularly living history in many and varied forms, reaching well beyond the... |
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Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent. |
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Janet L. Nelson argues that the study of medieval history in British schools is just what the twenty-first century requires. |
