Volume: 54 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 2004 |
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Mark Cohen and John Major describe how they approached the task of producing a ground-breaking volume of historical quotations. |
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David Cesarani examines the effects of a long history on a new nation state. |
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Peter Furtado introduces the February 2004 issue of History Today. |
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Terry Jones, former Python, describes how a perverse fascination with the boring bits of Chaucer converted him from being a clown into a historian of the 14th century... |
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Peter R. Neumann shows the relevance of ‘The Troubles’ to allied policy in Iraq. |
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The Battle of Port Arthur began on February 8th, 1904. |
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Robert Garland asks what murder meant to the apparently bloodthirsty Greeks and Romans. |
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Emelyne Godfrey looks at the latest trends in postgraduate historical studies. |
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Danny Wood visits Carranque Archaeological Park, near Madrid, recently opened to the public. |
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Nicholas Orme considers how the crowded cities of medieval England dealt with the death and burial of their citizens. |
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The clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley died February 6th, 1804, aged seventy-one. |
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The King of Sicily died on February 26th, 1154. |
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Historian and magician Peter Lamont considers what can be learned by studying the history of a famous conjuring trick – or con trick? |
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Rana Mitter recalls the career of a man who once ruled an area larger than France and Germany, but who spent forty years in Chiang Kai-shek’s gaols. |
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Charlotte Crow lifts the curtain on ‘juvenile drama’ – a 19th-century phenomenon, subject of a new exhibition on Regency toy theatre at Sir John Soane’s Museum in... |
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Archaeologist Keith Branigan uncovers clues revealing the patterns of emigration from the Isle of Barra to British North America, from 1770 to 1850. |
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C.A. Bayly looks at the opportunities presented to the historian in the 21st century when trying to write the history of the world. |
