Volume: 56 Issue: 6
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Neil Taylor suggests that the starting point from which to explore the full and varied history of Berlin is the apparently empty space at its centre. |
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Kevin Halloran puts forward a new suggestion for the location of one of the most disputed questions of Anglo-Saxon history: the site of Athelstan’s great battle... |
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Richard Cavendish describes how Caliph Uthman was murdered on June 16th, 656. |
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Gary Baines explains that the ANC government has institutionalized memories of the Soweto uprising in its efforts to build a new national identity in South Africa. |
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In March 1966, a few months before the England football team won the World Cup, the Football Association lost the trophy. Martin Atherton tells the full, often... |
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Gareth Jenkins looks for continuities in American foreign policy from the 1960s to the 2000s. |
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We are all invited to select seven new wonders of the world. Mary Beard investigates the list of candidates and reflects on what makes a monument a myth. |
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Editor Peter Furtado introduces this month's magazine. |
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Thoughts from our readers on previous articles in History Today. |
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Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller on June 29th, 1956. The marriage lasted five years. |
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Jane Bowden-Dan explores medical links between the Caribbean and London that throw important light on the position of blacks in eighteenth-century British society. |
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Helen Strudwick, Curator of the Egyptian galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, explains the new refurbishment at the museum and the opportunities it has... |
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Rhiannon Looseley uncovers the forgotten history of the evacuation of over 100,000 French soldiers from Dunkirk to Britain in May 1940, and describes what happened... |
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Romans have reacted passionately to the new presentation of one of the Eternal City’s key historic monuments, Charlotte Crow explains. |
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Richard Cavendish describes how British prisoners were held captive by the army of the Nawab of Bengal, for one night, in the 'black hole' of Fort William in... |
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Cartoon historian Mark Bryant explores the visual satire emanating from both sides of the conflict between Russia and Japan in the first decade of the 20th century.... |
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David Lowenthal argues that in recent years there has been a retreat from engagement with many aspects of the past. He suggests that, in turn, this points to an... |
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Susie Green finds in the fate of the last truly wild community of Bengal tigers a metaphor for humanity’s treatment of the planet. |
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Nicholas Orme returns to the classroom to find out how boys, and girls, were educated from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors; and finds that the foundations of our... |
