Volume: 61 Issue: 6
Contents of History Today, June 2011 |
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Queen Victoria attends to matters in the presence of an Indian servant in her garden tent at Frogmore, July 1893. |
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During the seventh century the Arabs invaded North Africa three times, bringing not just a new religion but a language and customs that were alien to the native... |
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Richard Cavendish charts the life of the author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was born on June 14th, 1811. |
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Despite the popularity of shows like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Britain’s Gypsy Travellers still face longstanding prejudice, warns Becky Taylor. |
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Medieval knights were the sporting superstars and military heroes of their day, who performed before an adoring public in the tournament. Nigel Saul explains their... |
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John French died on May 22nd, 1925. In this article from our June 2011 issue, Adam Hochschild looks at his relationship with his sister, Charlotte Despard, a... |
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The Australian pioneer Robert O'Hara Burke died of starvation on June 30th, 1861. |
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John Swinfield describes the bizarre politics behind the British government’s attempt to launch a pair of airships in the 1920s and how a project that might have... |
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The anti-government protests in Egypt earlier this year swept through Cairo and Alexandria before measures could be taken to protect antiquities in museums and... |
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Brazil may be one of the 21st century’s emerging superpowers, but its history is a mystery to many. Gabriel Paquette tells the story of its early years as an... |
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History Today was launched in 1951, the year of the Festival of Britain. Barry Turner challenges Arthur Marwick’s impressions, first published in 1991, of... |
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Paul Lay introduces the June issue of our 61st volume. |
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Richard Cavendish describes how General Somoza organised an armed uprising and seized power in Nicaragua, on June 9th 1936. |
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In the late 18th century the merchants, manufacturers and traders of Liverpool founded one of the first chambers of commerce in Britain with the aim of promoting... |
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Adam Hochschild looks at an unlikely pair of siblings whose high profile yet very different approach to the events of the early 20th century reflect a turbulent... |
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Think you know your history? Try the History Today quiz from the June issue of our magazine. |
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A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
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David Cameron has called India Britain's 'partner of choice' and is anxious to forge stronger trade links with the country. Yet how well do the British understand... |
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The desire of western governments, most notably those of Britain, to apologise for the actions of their predecessors threatens to simplify the complexities of... |
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Richard Bosworth looks at the Vittoriano, the Italian capital’s century-old monument to Victor Emmanuel II and Italian unification and still the focus of competing... |
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The Aeneid, Virgil’s epic Latin poem, offers as profound an insight into the current Libyan crisis as any 24-hour news channel, argues Robert Zaretsky... |
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Diana Souhami reviews Kathleen Winters' biography of Amelia Earhart. |
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John Morrill reviews Andrew Barclay's account of Cromwell's election as MP for Cambridge in 1640. |
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Juliet Gardiner reviews this illustrated history of London in the 1920s. |
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Judith Brown reviews Patrick French's portrait of modern India. |
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Jacob Middleton reviews a book about the fear, real and imagined, of crime in the Victorian era. |
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Vyvyen Brendon reviews F.R.H. Du Boulay's account of his family's history in India. |
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Anna Sanderson reviews three accounts of imperial history from the point of view of the colonists. |
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Hugh Stephenson reviews David Cordingly's account of the 'golden age' of piracy in the Caribbean. |
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William S. McFeely reviews Eric Foner's account of Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery. |
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Rosie Llewellyn Jones reviews Bobby Singh's history of the Europeans who lived at the Lahore court of Ranjit Singh in the nineteenth century. |
