Volume: 61 Issue: 7
Contents of History Today, July 2011 |
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For much of the British Civil Wars the colony of Barbados remained neutral, allowing both Parliamentarian and Royalist exiles to run their plantations and trade... |
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The 50th anniversary of the trial and execution of the Final Solution’s master bureaucrat has inspired a number of books, exhibitions and films. David Cesarani... |
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Richard Cavendish explains how Europe's earliest modern-style banknotes were introduced by the Bank of Stockholm in the 17th century. |
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Though superb works of art in themselves, the wildlife paintings of Francis Barlow are full of rich metaphors that shed light on the anxieties and concerns of a... |
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James Walvin praises Arnold Whitridge's study of the Atlantic slave trade, first published in History Today in 1958 |
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The Italian Renaissance republics are regarded by many as pioneers of good governance. Yet republican rule often resulted in chaos and it was left to strong... |
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What became of the baby daughter of Henry VIII's widow Katherine Parr and her disgraced fourth husband Thomas Seymour after their deaths? Linda Porter unravels a... |
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A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. |
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Richard Cavendish provides an overview of the life of the French monarch who was nicknamed 'the Universal Spider'. |
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Despite numerous attempts by radicals to reform the calendar, it is usually commerce that decides the way we measure time, as Matthew Shaw explains. |
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Taylor Downing offers a tribute to the military historian who was a television natural. |
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Though their appeal seems bizarre to the modern mind, relics and reliquaries reflected an entirely logical system of belief bound up in the medieval worldview,... |
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The death of Stalin in 1953 marked a shift in the Soviet Union. Robert Hornsby discusses the underground groups that mushroomed in the aftermath and how the state... |
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Throughout its 350-year history the British army has been vulnerable to economic pressures and political interference. Its strength lies in the loyalty of its... |
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It is a deeply unfashionable thing to ask, says Tim Stanley, but might a nation's history be affected by the character of its people? |
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Richard Cavendish explains how Hiram Binham discovered the 'lost city of the Incas'. |
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A mid-Victorian competition to design new Government Offices in Whitehall fell victim to a battle between the competing styles of Gothic and Classical. The result... |
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Edward Royle reviews a biography of Charles Bradlaugh. |
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Ian Bradley books which consider the historical context and background of the work of Gilbert and Sullivan. |
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E.L. Devlin reviews a book on the history of Medieval Europe. |
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Ian Burney reviews Judith Flanders' study of murder in Victorian Britain. |
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Anthony Bale reviews a fascinating book on the Jewish experience in medieval England. |
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John Foot reviews two books on Italian history. |
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Jeffrey Richards discusses the recent historical blockbuster. |
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Jerome de Groot, Linda Porter, David Waller, Gary Sheffield and Ted Vallance share their holiday reading choices. |
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Which books are Britain’s top historians packing in their suitcases to read on the beach? |
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Continuing our summer reading special, Helen Rappaport, Richard Weight, Malcolm Gaskill, Owen Dudley Edwards and Joyce Tyldesley share their holiday choices.... |
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In the second part of our summer reading special, Nick Poyntz, Tom Holland, Chris Wrigley, Alan Powers and Lucy Worsley share their holiday reading choices. |
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