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From the editor.(British history)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2009; Lay, Paul ... When the Staffordshire Hoard, as it has come to be known, was put on public display at the end of September, thousands of people descended upon Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to view this remarkable collection of Anglo-Saxon metalwork. Suddenly, a neglected and mysterious period of ...
What does the Staffordshire Hoard mean to historians? The public unveiling of an extraordinary collection of Anglo-Saxon metalwork was reported in a crass and trivial way, says Justin Pollard. He considers its true significance.(History Matters)
Nov 01, 2009; Pollard, Justin ... The media spotlight swung on to the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon metalwork when this remarkable treasure was revealed to the world's press in Birmingham on September 24th. Then, just as quickly, it moved on, leaving anyone with an interest in the period wondering what exactly it all ...
Sarko's shock to research: the French president's decision to introduce a competitive Anglo-Saxon model for research funding has led to mass revolt. But few disagree that Gallic higher education is in need of reform.(History Matters)(Nicolas Sarkozy)
Nov 01, 2009; Evans, Martin ... In the spring and summer France's universities were paralysed by strikes by academics and students. The trigger for revolt was the research revolution proposed in January by the right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy. Describing the present top-down framework as 'infantilising ...
City of (red) lights: as a new installation at the National Gallery recreates Amsterdam's red-light district, Melanie Abrams traces the history of Dutch liberalism.(History Matters)
Nov 01, 2009; Abrams, Melanie ... There is a vibrant area in the heart of Amsterdam which dates from the 13th century. It is characterised by canals, narrow streets and even narrower alleyways and is lined with tall, thin 17th-century houses built during the city's Golden Age. Inside the windows of these elegant houses ...
The birth of television.
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View Viking treasure.(History as it happens)(Vale of York Viking Hoard)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Vale of York Viking Hoard, one of the UK's most significant ...
History of milk drinking.(History as it happens)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... A genetic mutation which enabled the digestion of milk sugar lactose first occurred in ...
Give us back the Berlin Wall.(History as it happens)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... A recent survey has revealed that one in seven Germans want the ...
Churchill's value is debated.(History as it happens)(Winston Churchill)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Historians argue whether the British leader was a liability for ...
Veggie gladiators.(History as it happens)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Bone analysis from a gladiator graveyard reveals a diet of barley ...
DNA fingerprinting's 25th.(History as it happens)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Alec Jeffreys, of Leicester University, discovered genetic fingerprinting 25 years ago. An ...
Death of Russian poet.(History as it happens)(Sergei Mikhalkov)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Sergei Mikhalkov, who wrote the words for the Russian national anthem, ...
Medieval mapping.(History as it happens)(Mapping Medieval Chester)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; ... A new website features a multi-layered map of Chester at the end of the Middle Ages with links to medieval ...
House of Lords rejects the 'people's budget': November 30th, 1909.(Months Past)(David Lloyd George)
Nov 01, 2009; Cavendish, Richard ... Brought up in poverty in Wales after his father's death when he was a baby, David Lloyd George grew up with a magnetic personality and a profound sympathy with the poor. He visited the House of Commons when he was 18 and confided to his diary that he viewed the assembly in the same spirit ...
Turks delight in change: November 24th, 1934.(Months Past)
Nov 01, 2009; Cavendish, Richard ... After Turkey's defeat in the First World War and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire the sultanate was abolished and in 1923 the country became a republic with the army's commander-in-chief, Mustafa Kemal, as president. Ruling Turkey as virtual dictator until his death in 1938, he ...
'That daring young man on the flying trapeze ...': November 12th, 1859.(Months Past)(Jules Leotard)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2009; Cavendish, Richard ... Jules Leotard, the French acrobat who performed the first flying trapeze act on record at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris in 1859, was the daring young man who 'flies through the air with the greatest of ease' in the music hall song. He also left his name to the leotard, the tight, sleeveless ...
The call of the Crusades: an idea promoted by Pope Urban II at the end of the 11th century continues to resonate in modern politics. Jonathan Phillips traces the 800-year history of 'Crusade' and its power as a concept that shows no sign of diminishing.(Crusades)
Nov 01, 2009; Phillips, Jonathan ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Crusade: according to circumstance, either a toxic byword for conflict between Christians and Muslims or a shorthand for what people believe to be a good and worthy cause. In the former context one might quote Osama bin Laden or, in parallel, the ...
The passing of a dynasty: the careers of the three Kennedy brothers defined the politics of America in the 1960s, a decade that began amid vigour and optimism and ended in scandal and cynicism. Yet still they fascinate.(Today's History)(Jack, Robert and Edward Kennedy)
Nov 01, 2009; Stanley, Tim ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The death earlier this year of Edward Moore Kennedy prompted many pundits and historians to revisit and reevaluate the Kennedy phenomenon. How has a family with such a chequered public reputation managed to dominate the American imagination? This folk ...
Genius eclipsed: the fate of Robert Boyle: the natural philosopher and scientist Robert Boyle was revered in his time for his pioneering enquiry into a wide range of natural phenomena. Yet within half a century of his death he was almost forgotten, overshadowed by his contemporary Isaac Newton.(Biography)
Nov 01, 2009; Hunter, Michael ... In April 1733 the Gentleman's Magazine announced a competition to celebrate the installation of a bust of the natural philosopher, Robert Boyle (1627-91), in the Hermitage, a structure erected in the royal gardens at Richmond by Queen Caroline, wife of George II. The Hermitage was 'very ...
Hanging on to the jewel in the crown: a century ago, the British authorities in India passed a series of reforms that they hoped would appease the subcontinent's increasingly confident political movements. But, writes Denis Judd, it was too little, too late.(Today's History)
Nov 01, 2009; Judd, Denis ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] India was Britain's greatest and most prestigious imperial possession. The achievement of ruling roughly 80 per cent of the empire's population with a few hundred British administrators and an army drawn primarily from the population of the Indian ...
