Volume: 61 Issue: 1
Contents of History Today, January 2011 |
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As the TV series Ancient Worlds reaches its conclusion, its writer and presenter Richard Miles looks at the challenges of making a historical documentary... |
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Asa Briggs has been associated with History Today from its beginning. In an interview to celebrate our 60th anniversary, he tells Paul Lay about his... |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the assassination of Caliph Ali, on January 24th, 661. |
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In writing a young person’s history of Britain Patrick Dillon found himself wondering where myth ends and history begins. |
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Richard Cavendish describes Edward the Confessor's canonisation, on January 5th, 1161. |
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Paul Lay introduces the Janaury issue of our 61st volume, which marks the 60th anniversary of History Today. |
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Few English monarchs have such a poor reputation as Henry VI. Yet he was held in high regard by the Tudors, says Michael Hicks, despite losing the Wars of the... |
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Outremer, the crusader kingdom, and its capital Jerusalem entered a golden age during the 1130s. Simon Sebag Montefiore portrays its extraordinary cast of kings,... |
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The linguistic legacy of the King James Bible is immense. But, David Crystal discovers, it is not quite the fount of common expressions that many of its admirers... |
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Between 1954 and 1958 Ann Moyal was a research assistant to the press baron Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Here she offers a personal recollection of the political... |
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Ian Bradley on the precarious past of a pure Worcestershire water. |
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At what point did it begin to matter what you wore? Ulinka Rublack looks at why the Renaissance was a turning point in people’s attitudes to clothes and their... |
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As a compelling exhibition at the British Museum opens a new window on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, History Today takes a broad view of... |
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In 1538, believing his kingdom to be under threat, Henry VIII brutally settled scores dating back to the dynastic conflicts of the 15th century, as Desmond Seward... |
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Four hundred years after it was first published, the Authorised Version of the Bible remains hugely influential, especially in the US. Derek Wilson examines its... |
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Stauss' 'musical comedy' was first performed in Dresden on January 26th, 1911. It was a sensation. |
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David Mattingly revisits an article by Graham Webster, first published in History Today in 1980, offering a surprisingly sympathetic account of Roman... |
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The death of Cabinet government has been a near constant theme of British politics in the 20th century. But it came closer to reality under the premiership of Tony... |
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Taylor Downing, one of the review judges of the recent History Today Grierson Trust award for best historical documentary, discusses this year’s... |
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Joyce Tyldesley reviews Duane W. Roller's biography of Cleopatra. |
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Derry Nairn gives some video previews of the history television programmes and film, touched on in January's Taylor Downing article ... |
