Volume: 57 Issue: 8
Contents of History Today, August 2007 |
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Neil Faulkner and Nick Saunders, Co-directors of the Great Arab Revolt Project, tell how a recent field trip to southern Jordan sheds light on the theories and... |
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Towards the end of his career with a radio microphone, the old Yorkshire fast bowler Fred Truman was notorious for his less-than-helpful commentary on the cricket. |
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August 17th, 1657 |
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Richard Barber describes the discoveries he made when Channel Four’s Time Team uncovered Edward III’s huge circular building at the heart of Windsor Castle.... |
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As a young man, he had little interest in politics and rejected the embedded racism of fellow southerners in his affinity for blues music. What drove him into the... |
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Lucy Riall discusses the life and career of the Italian nationalist and soldier Giuseppe Garibaldi, and the circumstances by which he became the first celebrity of... |
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The independent Federation of Malaya came into being on August 31st, 1957. |
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York Membery interviews the eminent historian Norman Stone about his life in Turkey and his latest book. |
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Charles Hind looks at the work of one of the most influential architects in the world, in his home city of Vicenza, northern Italy. |
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Mark Bryant takes a look at a pioneering magazine that acted as a school for a whole generation of cartoonists. |
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Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, explains how a seventeenth-century Duke stole her heart while she was still at university. |
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Robert Fulton's North River Steam Boat (later named the Clermont) made a trial run up the Hudson from New York to Albany on August 17th, 1807. |
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As Britain gets used to the ban on smoking in public spaces, Virginia Berridge looks at the way attitudes to public health have changed in the last fifty years,... |
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Is the US President as a republican substitute for royalty? Frank Prochaska explores the relationship between George III and the Founding Fathers, and the... |
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Our prehistoric ancestors survived rapid climate change and rising temperatures as extreme as those we face today, says Kate Prendergast. What can they tell us... |
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Peter Furtado meets Robert Opie, chronicler of everyday life, who will be opening the doors of his treasure-trove museum of ephemera for a special event for History... |
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For the duration of the Second World War, the British fought a covert battle against a large-scale influx of forged bank notes that threatened to bust the economy... |
