Volume: 59 Issue: 5
Contents of History Today, May 2009 |
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Despite the seemingly endless celebrations of the events of 1968, it is the legacy of 1979 that lingers on, argues Jeremy Black. |
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Why do we have history and archaeology? In the light of our understanding of ‘deep time’ Daniel Lord Smail argues that it is high time that the two disciplines... |
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Stephanie J. Snow looks at four book releases on the topic of medicine, disease and surgery |
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Mark Bryant sketches the brief life of one of 18th-century London’s most prodigious and daring draughtsmen. |
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On the eve of the Second World War, the navies of Italy, France and Britain plotted for supremacy in the Mediterranean. Their actions resulted in the fracturing of... |
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Following her execution by firing squad in Belgium in 1915, Edith Cavell's body was eventually brought back from Brussels to England on May 15th, 1919. |
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Editor Paul Lay introduces the May 2009 issue of History Today magazine. |
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A subject and servant of Europe’s most cosmopolitan empire, the composer Joseph Haydn played an important role in the emergence of German cultural nationalism... |
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Simon Yarrow reviews a new release by Miri Rubin |
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Richard Cavendish looks back at the Capetian monarch, crowned aged seven. |
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More than two decades ago, Adam Zamoyski wrote a history of the Poles and their culture. As a major revision of the work is published, he reflects on the nation’s... |
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Ever since his own time it has been agreed that Richard Cromwell was not the man his father was, which may have been no bad thing. Richard Cavendish looks back.... |
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As the Roman Empire declined its leaders became interested more in personal survival than good governance. Sound familiar? Adrian Goldsworthy draws comparisons... |
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Past experiments with liberal democracy have led Russia to the brink of civil war, economic collapse and the plunder of state resources. Daniel Beer explains why... |
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Emelyne Godfrey explains the origins and current appeal of a hybrid martial art that flourished in fin de siècle London and was famously used by Conan Doyle’s... |
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Eamon Duffy explores the relationship between Mary I and her Archbishop of Canterbury Cardinal Pole. Pole’s advice to his queen about attitudes to Henry VIII and... |
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Wendy Moore catches a rare glimpse of a medical collection that includes tonsil guillotines and implements for trepanning. |
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Historical facts about the Druids are few, yet this very lack of tangible evidence has allowed their image to be reworked and appropriated by the English, Irish,... |
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Roland Quinault looks at how the Victorians saw the old English system of trial by jury as a defining feature of British good government and fair play and as an... |
