Volume 33 Issue 6 June 1983

Sallie Purkis shows how oral history sources were used by schoolchildren in a Cambridge local history project.

Jeffrey Daniels wants museum-going to be a more selective activity.

Alan Sked surveys the historiographical treatment of the notoriously long-winded Habsburg politician.

Paul Thompson looks at the newest and oldest form of history.

Daniel Bertaux presents an oral history of a traditional French industry.

Gladiatorial shows turned war into a game, preserved an atmosphere of violence in time of peace, and functioned as a political theatre which allowed confrontation between rulers and ruled.

Douglas Johnson asks what political or military intrigues lay behind the sudden recall to power, twenty-five years ago this month, of Charles de Gaulle, the wartime leader of the Free French.