Volume: 55 Issue: 6
Contents of History Today, June 2005 |
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Richard Cavendish explains how Archbishop Scrope and Thomas Mowbray were executed on June 8th, 1405. |
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Richard Cavendish charts the life of the Italian nationalist Guiseppe Mazzini. |
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To coincide with a major new exhibition at Tate Britain on the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, Stella Tillyard asks what fame meant to individuals and the wider... |
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Tim Harris explores the political spin, intolerance and repression that underlay Charles II’s relaxed image, and which led him into a deep crisis in 1678-81 yet... |
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Roland Quinault examines the career, speeches and writings of Churchill for evidence as to whether or not he was racist and patronizing to black peoples. |
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Donald Zec has written the life of his brother, the wartime political cartoonist Philip Zec, to remind the world of his rich collection of cartoons that caught the... |
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Jonathan Fenby asks why the greatest maritime tragedy ever to affect Britain was hushed up at the time and has remained a virtually untold story for sixty-five years... |
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Peter Furtado reviews Ridley Scott's new Crusades epic. |
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Letters from readers of History Today. |
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Stuart Burch considers the significance to Norway – both in terms of the past and the present – of the anniversary of 1905, when the country at last won its... |
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Ninety years ago this summer saw the start of the Armenian genocide in Turkey. In his account of the complex historical background to these events Donald Bloxham... |
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Murray Watson looks at the historical roots of a phenomenon few commentators have noted: the sizeable English presence in Scotland. |
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Ian Bottomley introduces an exhibition which reflects a special moment in Anglo-Japanese relations in the 17th century, echoed today by a unique loan arrangement... |
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Bryan Ward-Perkins finds that archaeology offers unarguable evidence for an abrupt ending. |
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Peter Furtado introduces the June 2005 issue of History Today. |
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A rebellion erupted on the Russian battleship Potemkin on June 14th, 1905 |
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Jonathan Marwil describes the eye-opening experience of three young Americans who went to report from the battlefields of the Italian War of Independence. |
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Charlotte Crow visits the new World Museum Liverpool, which has been newly refurbished in time for the city’s big year, 2008, when it will wear the mantle of... |
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Lawrence Freedman describes how he came to write the official history of the Falklands campaign and tells us what he learned from the experience. |
