Volume: 59 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, January 2009 |
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Roger Moorhouse takes issue with the secular sainthood bestowed on Claus von Stauffenberg, subject of the film Valkyrie. |
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The rupture of a giant molasses tank in Boston just after the First World War caused devastation and led to the longest legal case in the city’s history, writes... |
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Richard Willis charts how order was brought to the medical profession by the foundation of the General Medical Council 150 years ago. |
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Andrew Roberts introduces the remarkable memoir of Magdalene De Lancey, wife of Wellington’s chief of staff, who accompanied her husband on a campaign that... |
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Mark Bryant on the work of Soviet cartoonists engaged in the epic struggle against Nazi Germany. |
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The visually spectacular Scottish capital witnessed fierce dynastic struggle before it welcomed the spirit of the Enlightenment, as Patricia Cleveland-Peck... |
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A spate of recent films suggest that the scars of Germany’s history show little sign of healing. Markus Bauer reports. |
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Terry Brown explores the arborial legacy of a penny-pinching duke. |
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John Shepherd looks back to the turbulent Winter of Discontent, which heralded the demise of James Callaghan’s Labour government and paved the way for Margaret... |
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A selection of readers' correspondence. |
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Robert MuchembledTranslated by Jean Birrell Polity Press 224pp £17.99 ISBN 978 0745 638768 |
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Michael Dunne reflects on past US presidential Inaugurals, and the words which still resonate. |
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In his twenties, Philippe Maurice was sentenced to death by guillotine for murdering a policeman. Saved by a change of government, he transformed himself through... |
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Byron’s love affair with bare-knuckle boxing was shared by many of his fellow Romantics, who celebrated this most brutal of sports in verse. John Strachan... |
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The British Museum opened on January 15th, 1759. |
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The popular image of Socrates as a man of immense moral integrity was largely the creation of his pupil Plato. If we examine evidence of his trial, argues Robin... |
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Beautiful, clever and determined, Yolande of Aragon was at the heart of the diplomatic and military campaigns that united 15th-century France. Margaret L. Kekewich... |
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January 5th 1919 |
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Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979. |
