Volume: 59 Issue 9
Contents of History Today, September 2009 |
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Twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall Martin Evans introduces a short series looking at changing attitudes to history in the former Communist states.... |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the death of England's only pope, on September 1st, 1159. |
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Editor Paul Lay introduces the September issue of History Today |
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Two hundred and fifty years ago a British Army under General James Wolfe won a momentous battle at Quebec. But, as Stephen Brumwell argues, a crucial – and... |
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Recent research by medical scientists and historians suggests that George III had manic depression rather than porphyria. Scholars will need to take a fresh look... |
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A curious relationship exists between the Caucasus state and the West, explored by Nigel Fountain. |
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Catherine Merridale examines competing versions of Russia's troubled past in the light of present politics. |
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Terry Deary’s hugely popular Horrible Histories have leapt beyond the page onto airwaves, stage and screen. Peter J. Beck considers the success of the format and what... |
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Frances Spalding on John Piper’s pursuit of an English vision during the Second World War. |
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According to the will of Henry VIII, it was the younger sister of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey who would follow Elizabeth I to the throne of England. Yet few now know... |
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A selection of your letters this month |
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On the tercentenary of the famous London writer’s birth, Peter Martin celebrates the legacy of a man admired for his insight and humanity, qualities forged in the... |
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Since at least the 18th century, the traditional English summer sport has inspired cartoonists, as Mark Bryant demonstrates. |
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The repatriation of British soldiers’ bodies from Afghanistan goes against a long tradition of burying the war dead in some foreign field and brings the conflict... |
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The German army’s training, discipline and Blitzkrieg tactics – directed by the supremely confident Führer – swept away Polish resistance in 1939. It took the... |
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Richard Overy examines recent analyses of how Europe became embroiled in major conflict just two decades after the trauma of the Great War and we look at events... |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of September 21st, 1809. |
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Paul Cartledge reviews a biography of the ancient historian Herodotus by Justin Marozzi |
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Richard Cavendish explains how, on September 12th, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 2, the first spacecraft to successfully reach the Moon. |
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John Haywood explains why the tactics adopted by the Gallic leader Vercingetorix to resist Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul played into Roman hands. |
