Volume: 55 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 2005 |
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Jonathan North introduces the story of the warm reception Bonaparte received from one St Helena resident, a story that will soon be the subject of a feature film... |
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July 13th, 1705 |
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Martin Evans mourns the loss of Douglas Johnson, doyen of French political history in Britain. |
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The twentieth anniversary this month of the 1985 Durham Miner’s Gala, the first to be held after the end of the miners’ strike of 1984-85, will be a time for... |
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Richard Cavendish describes how Major-General Edward Braddock arrived in Virginia to take command against the French in North America, but was defeated on July 9th... |
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Peter Furtado introduces the July 2005 issue of History Today. |
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The journey that led N.A.M. Rodger from a schoolboy passion for warships to his becoming the historian of the British Navy took some unexpected turns. He regrets none... |
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Graham Gendall Norton travels in search of those who fought for the rights of all. |
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History Today readers lend us their thoughts on previous articles published in the magazine. |
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Christopher Woodward considers the continuing power exerted by Napoleon on the French and British during his exile on St Helena up till, and beyond, his death.... |
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Laurent Joffrin looks at the paradoxes surrounding a man who has fascinated the French for two hundred years. |
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Claire Warrior, of the National Maritime Museum, previews the themes of the exhibition opening on July 7th. |
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Colin White uncovers a more complex and liberal side to Nelson than was previously appreciated. |
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Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Poland, Europe and ‘The Isles’. |
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Mark Roodhouse finds a dark secret in one of the champions of the 1945 Labour landslide. |
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David Welch looks at the way that public art was used in both France and Britain to celebrate Napoleon and Nelson as national heroes, during their lifetimes and... |
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David Prior of the Parliamentary Archives explains why we should be thinking about the Gunpowder Plot unseasonably early, this year. |
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Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged for murder in Britain. She was excecuted on July 13th, 1955. |
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Maxine Berg looks at the commercial battle to dominate Europe that ran alongside the wars with France, and the product revolution that gave Britain the edge in... |
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Peter Furtado introduces a history-lovers’ festival with a difference. |
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History Today readers select the greatest political cartoon of all time. |
