Volume: 60 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 2010 |
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R.C. Richardson describes the fortunes of young women driven by poverty into domestic service. A number fell victim to predatory masters and ended up with... |
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R.C. Richardson describes the fortunes of young women driven by poverty into domestic service in early modern England. A number fell... |
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Sexually explicit jigs were a major part of the attraction of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration stage, as Lucie Skeaping explains. |
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Little remains of the great North African empire that was Rome's most formidable enemy, because, as Richard Miles explains, only its complete... |
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The great Russian author drew inspiration from the countryside and explored the practical and spiritual impact of trees on people, as well as on the environment... |
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America has struggled to reform public healthcare for over 100 years and now has a byzantine, costly system controlled by powerful, money-hungry interest... |
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The Bamburgh sword, a unique pattern-welded weapon found in Northumbria, has helped shed new light on a critical period of Anglo-Saxon. ... |
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Ruth Henig reassesses the importance of the League of Nations. |
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The League of Nations has been much derided as a historical irrelevance, but it laid the foundations for an international court and established bodies that the... |
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Roger Crowley finds that modern European concerns about Turkey are anticipated in an article by... |
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The English journalist Walter Bagehot was one of the few commentators to grapple with the constitutional issues behind the the American Civil... |
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The 2009 Nobel Prize winner for literature is well placed to describe the trials of Eastern European minorities through the maelstrom of the 20th century, writes... |
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The American soldiers who fought their way through the islands of the Pacific during the Second World War encountered fierce Japanese... |
