Volume: 59 Issue 10
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 two German nations became one for the first time in almost half a century. Paul Betts looks at the further consequences of... |
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The Glorious Revolution was the result of a contest between two competing visions of the modern state, argues Steven Pincus. The springboard for Britain’s eventual... |
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On the Mediterranean at the western edge of the Nile delta stands the most important and enduring of all the many cities founded by Alexander. Though much of its... |
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The continuing use of AD and BC is not only factually wrong but also offensive to many who are not Christians. |
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Eadwig died on October 1st, 959, still in his teens, in circumstances which remain unknown. |
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Mark Bryant profiles the brilliant wartime cartoonist who chronicled the actions of Italy’s Fascist leader. |
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Editor Paul Lay introduces the October 2009 issue. |
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George V retained his throne by learning a lesson ignored by most of his European contemporaries – relinquish all power, writes Miranda Carter. |
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The West Indies is home to a large and vibrant South Asian population descended from indentured labourers who worked the plantations after the abolition of slavery... |
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How children acquire language is a question that continues to be of fascination to medical scientists and educationists. They all owe a debt to Charles West, 19th-... |
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Embarking on a study of the Russian revolutionary’s long years in exile, Helen Rappaport unveiled the strangely compelling and sometimes surprising private life of a... |
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India’s rulers demonstrated what power they had by adopting the crafts of their conquerors – first the Mughals, then the British. Corinne Julius looks at the... |
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Richard Cavendish recalls the slave liberation movement in 19th-century Kansas. |
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A selection of your correspondence this month. |
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Ed Dutton looks at how the experience of Finland during the period 1945 to 1989 has led to a historical identity crisis for the nation that remains unresolved.... |
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The Allies may be regarded as the ‘good guys’ of the Second World War, but the hypocrisy apparent in their treatment of colonial peoples drove many subjects into... |
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Juliet Gardiner analyses the recent explosion in interest in historical novels |
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Andrew Roberts analyses Lord Beaverbrook's memories of Lloyd George... |
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By challenging the very idea of a continuous Anglo-French medieval war Ian Mortimer reveals the remarkable complexities of a series of distinct conflicts that... |
