Volume: 58 Issue: 10
Contents of History Today, October 2008 |
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Mark Bryant examines the wartime work of Osbert Lancaster, the centenary of whose birth this year is marked with a new exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London... |
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Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits Tempelhof which is about to close for ever as an airport. |
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Sir John Reeves Ellerman was No.1 on the UK’s 1916 rich list. William D. Rubinstein looks at the careers of this reclusive, but fabulously rich, British man of... |
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A.D. Harvey thinks the world of academia is letting down the thousands who make Black History Month such a popular success each year. |
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To coincide with ‘Cold War Modern’, a major new exhibition at the V & A in London, its consultant curator, David Crowley of the Royal College of Art, looks back... |
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John Paul II was elected on October 16th, 1978. He was the first non-Italian pope to be elected in four centuries. |
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Helen Rappaport samples this biography of the Lady with the Lamp. |
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Oct 15, 1858 |
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Pressure in the nineteenth century to introduce artificial lighting was as much about enhancing privacy as about reducing crime, according to Chris Otter. |
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A selection of readers' correspondence. |
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The famed radio broadcast of HG Wells' War of the Worlds took place on October 30th, 1938. |
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Andrew Roberts reflects on the often stormy relationship between Churchill and the Chiefs of Staff during the Second World War. |
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An exotic London theatre funded the building of the first Eddystone lighthouse. Alison Barnes has discovered what kind of shows it staged. |
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Neil Taylor discusses how political change has left its mark on the Latvian capital’s Town Hall Square. |
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Sheila Corr marks the advent of a permanent home for the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, London. |
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Today’s obsession with 18th-century femmes fatales distorts the history of women, says Hannah Greig. |
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Ian Mortimer, who has been an archivist and a poet before becoming a medieval historian and biographer, describes why a blend of empathy and evidence is the key to... |
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Daniel Beer looks at how much Soviet labour camps owed to the theories of Russian liberals on crime, its causes and how to treat it. |
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Elizabeth Stephens examines how the surprise invasion of Israel by Egypt and its allies started the process that led to Camp David. |
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Nick Pelling suggests that credit should go not to the Netherlands but much further south to Catalonia. |
