Volume: 55 Issue: 5
Contents of History Today, May 2005 |
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The Roman emperor abdicated on May 1st, 305. |
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Russell Chamberlin describes the revelations of a recent conference on the archaeology of Cleopatra’s Alexandria. |
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Jamie Oliver is the latest in a long line of food reformers. John Burnett looks at the campaign of the Reform Bread League to improve the nation’s loaf. |
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James Robertson investigates the Lord Protector’s ambitious plans for war with Spain in the Caribbean. |
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Andy Lynes announces a new venture by the renowned chef Heston Blumenthal and a team of historians based at Hampton Court Palace who specialise in Tudor cookery. |
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Kevin Kennedy highlights a controversial project to rebuild a one-time Prussian ‘national monument’. |
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A selection of your responses. |
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Neil Gregor looks at Germany and the legacies of war. |
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Sarah Searight highlights the problem of pillaging for those trying to piece together Mali’s rich heritage. |
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Mike Huggins investigates the origins of Britain’s morass of sporting rivalries. |
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Guy de la Bédoyère, perhaps better known for his work on Roman Britain, pursues the life of John Evelyn, and his correspondence with Samuel Pepys. |
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Beryl Williams marks the centenary of the revolutionary year 1905, and discusses the impact of the massacre outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and the... |
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Party strategists are no new phenomenon, Dominic Wring says; the Labour Party has always been concerned with marketing its brand image. |
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Anthony Pollard, on the 550th anniversary of the battle of St Albans, describes what happened, and asks whether the battle should rightly be seen as the launch of the... |
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Mihir Bose investigates the case of Subhas Chandra Bose in Bengal in 1924 to show what can happen when a government is able to lock people up on the suspicion of... |
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Umej Bhatia discusses Muslim memories of the Crusades and their resonances in Middle Eastern politics today. |
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The mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on May 14th, 1955. |
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May 2005 is going to be noteworthy for at least two reasons – the general election and the 60th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. |
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As the rest of Britain gears up for the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day on May 8th, Peter Tabb describes the last moments of the German Occupation of the Channel... |
