Volume: 58 Issue: 1
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Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons published in imperial Japan during the Second World War. |
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Suzanne Bardgett, director of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, reports on this ambitious new facility which opened in October. |
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York Membery remembers John By, the brilliant British military engineer responsible for building the 175-year-old Rideau Canal. |
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The ill-suited couple were wed on January 25th, 1308. |
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A.S.H. Smyth witnesses the first Meskel Festival of Ethiopia’s Third Millennium, in the ancient capital of Gonder. |
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The History Today Film of the Year award has been awarded to the 60-minute documentary Hungary 1956: Our Revolution, written, directed and produced by Mark Kidel... |
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The other day a cousin I rarely see came to lunch, bringing with her the tree of my mother’s family which she has been researching; she had managed to get back to the... |
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Germany's new Chancellor took power on January 30th, 1933. |
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Nigel Jones reviews a book on Cold War history by Patrick Wright. |
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Burma became independent sixty years ago this month. Ben Morris asks if Britain could have done more for this unhappy country. |
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The editor answers your correspondence. |
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Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrssen describe how the pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh was increasingly disturbed by the tension between technology and its impact on... |
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Caroline Lawrence, author of the popular Roman Mysteries books, explains how the ancient world first grabbed her attention. |
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Gandhi was shot on January 30th, 1948, aged seventy-eight, by the Hindu fanatic Nathuram Godse. |
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Report by H.F. Ito a Japanese born close to Hiroshima In 1942, now living in France, on a conference held in December 2007 in Nanjing to commemorate the massacre of... |
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A.D. Harvey reviews a history of the Napoleonic Wars. |
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Rosalind Crone introduces a database of readers and reading habits since 1450. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers how France took Calais, the last continental possession of England, on January 7th, 1558. |
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Nicholas Orme reviews a book by Charles Nicholl |
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Mark Juddery introduces The Story of the Kelly Gang, possibly the first-ever feature film, now largely lost, that was made a hundred years ago in... |
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Peter Furtado finds out how hundreds of local historical initiatives are changing the political and cultural climate of Northern Ireland. |
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Ian J. Bickerton and Kenneth J. Hagan argue that, contrary to Clausewitz’ view of war as a means for achieving political ends, the United States’ participation in... |
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Jerome Kuehl reviews two books on the Second World War |
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John Styles considers whether the fashion for wearing pocket-watches flourished among working men in the eighteenth century because it was stylish, because they... |
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Helen Rappaport visits the town on the Russian-Siberian border that has become a focus for Romanov pilgrimage. |
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Gordon Brown’s promised written constitution – if it happens – won’t be the first in British history, as Patrick Little reminds us. |
