Volume: 59 Issue: 12
Contents of History Today, December 2009 |
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For centuries, Africans were shipped to the Indian subcontinent and sold as slaves to regional rulers. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones tells the story of those who went to... |
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The Antarctic Treaty, signed 50 years ago, kept the cold continent out ofthe Cold War and fostered collaboration on scientific research. The world now faces a... |
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Wallowing in misery over this admittedly awful year betrays a lack of historical perspective, argues Derek Wilson. |
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As bankers gain pariah status, William D. Rubinstein discusses Britain’s changing attitudes towards the wealthy. |
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Did the first Christian Roman emperor appropriate the pagan festival of Saturnalia to celebrate the birth of Christ? Matt Salusbury weighs the evidence. |
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Mark Bryant on the lesser-known caricature work of the German-born Gerard Hoffnung, one of postwar Britain’s best-loved cartoonists. |
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Editor Paul Lay introduces the last issue in our 59th Volume |
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Kevin Haddick Flynn looks at the attempt of the Grand Old Man of Liberalism to solve the Irish question and his conversion to Home Rule in the mid-1880s. |
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A selection of your correspondence |
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The legendary ruler of Pontus and creator of a formidable Black Sea empire was, until recently, one of the most celebrated figures of the Classical world, a hero... |
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December 14th, 1809 |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 4th, 1959. |
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A round-up of all the book, film, radio and DVD reviews this month. |
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The writer and director Stephen Poliakoff talks to Charlotte Crow about how his view of the recent past has informed his new film, Glorious 39, a historical thriller... |
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David Loyn, the only reporter with the Taliban when they took Kabul in 1996, takes issue with military historian Thomas Tulenko’s analysis of Britain’s 19th-... |
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In 1759, Admiral Hawke secured a daring victory over the French fleet at Quiberon Bay. It surpasses Nelson’s triumph at Trafalgar in its significance, claims Brian... |
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For 400 years the delivery of letters has been integral to British life. As Royal Mail confronts an uncertain future, Susan Whyman charts the Post Office’s... |
