Articles from History Today (June 1, 2010)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A divided past.	Foot, John	Book review	190
A free state of mind: Ben Wilson visits the History Today archive to examine Diana Spearman's analysis of the British constitution in the 18th century, an age characterised by liberty and individualism.	Wilson, Ben	Critical essay	755
A vanished imperialism.	Tillyard, Stella	Book review	190
A virtually limitless library: this month Nick Poyntz looks at how to access the wealth of digitised source material now available to historians.	Poyntz, Nick		752
A World By Itself: A History of the British Isles.	Lay, Paul	Book review	1150
Arms raised in shame: when the England football team visited Germany in May 1938, diplomatic protocol resulted in the team giving a Nazi salute.	Fisher, Trevor	Essay	1099
Bad taste.	Williams, Kate	Book review	187
Bees for keeps: the niches created for bees in some of Britain's castles were an important source of food, lighting and even defence.	Kritsky, Gene		816
Bending the arc of history: by taking a rational, global overview of the past, historians can better understand the challenges facing humanity.	Dukes, Paul	Essay	1486
Birth of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough: June 5th, 1660.		Biography	454
Born in the USA: a new world of war: the American Civil War transformed the nature of armed conflict. Its opening salvos harked back to Waterloo; its end anticipated the industrial warfare of the 20th century.	White, David	Essay	3843
Bugs and the Victorians.	Williams, Kate	Book review	362
Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made.	Addison, Paul	Book review	606
Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart.	Porter, Linda	Book review	962
Don't blame boomers.	Clenaghen, Wenda	Letter to the editor	380
Dr Trelawney's cabinet of historical curiosities ... as unlocked by Justin Pollard.	Pollard, Justin		644
Eric Ravilious the art of war: one of Britain's finest war artists, Eric Ravilious recorded the last days of the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious, which was sunk off Norway in June 1940 in controversial circumstances and with huge loss of life.	Kelly, Anthony		2669
Essayist extraordinary.	Kynaston, David	Book review	113
Excavations on vacation.	Judd, Denis	Book review	138
From Ranji to Rohan: Cricket and Indian Identity in Colonial Guyuna 1890s-1960s.	Judd, Denis	Book review	395
From the editor.	Lay, Paul	Editorial	411
Garibaldi takes Palermo: June 6th, 1860.		Biography	796
Goal!	Moran, Joe	Book review	172
Infrequently asked questions.	Teal, Adrian	Brief article	140
Inside Out: My story of Betrayal and Cowardice at the Heart of New Labour.	Beckett, Francis	Book review	715
Jesus lives, again.	Bamford, Daniel	Letter to the editor	413
Katyn: tragedy upon tragedy: in April, in the cruellest of ironies, many of Poland's political elite perished when their plane crashed on the way to a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre of an earlier generation of Polish leaders.	Fox, John P.	Report	2584
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery.	Whitelock, Anna	Book review	775
Majesty.	Mortimer, Ian	Book review	258
Making a martyr: William of Norwich and the Jews: the murder of a 12-year-old boy in Norwich in 1144 inspired Thomas of Monmouth, a monk from the city's cathedral, to create an anti-semitic account of the incident. his influential work reveals much about life and belief in medieval England, argues Miri Rubin.	Rubin, Miri		3139
Mercurius Politicus: a blog about early modern books, history and culture.	Lay, Paul	Website overview	221
Nation building.	Zamoyski, Adam	Book review	172
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World.	Gregor, Neil	Book review	559
Pastimes or amusement & enlightenment through quizzes, conundrums, historical facts & the crossword.		Brief article	265
Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown.	McWilliam, Rohan	Book review	389
Politics of memory.	Bourke, Joanna	Book review	115
Prize history.	De Groot, Jerome	Book review	133
Reflecting the past.	Tindall, Gillian	Book review	155
Round & about.			2064
Satnav's limited range: Britain's diverse landscape reveals much about the people who live in it, whether it is 'Constable Country' or Hounslow. We should all take a closer look.	Pryor, Francis	Viewpoint essay	809
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society.	Robinson, Andrew	Book review	720
Setting off.	Hutton, Ronald	Book review	150
Signposts: British general elections.	Gamble, Andrew	Essay	1265
Speak For Britain! A New History of the Labour Party.	Shepherd, John	Book review	595
The Arabs.	Evans, Martin	Book review	684
The Atlantic and its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War.	Priestland, David	Book review	768
The Battle of Britain Experience.	Gardiner, Juliet	Book review	215
The Bible society.	Rubin, Miri	Book review	195
The Churchills: A Family Portrait.	Quinault, Roland	Book review	391
The Cold War and me.	Roberts, Andrew	Brief article	135
The fall of Ramsay MacDonald: June 7th, 1935.		Brief biography	346
The free world's great parade: Dan Plesch describes how President Roosevelt's introduction of a global day of solidarity in June 1942 successfully promoted the ideals of the United Nations and his Four Freedoms, boosting morale in the worldwide fight against fascism.	Plesch, Dan		3143
The man who said 'non': exiled in London in June 1940, with France on the brink of defeat, Charles de Gaulle broadcast a speech that was to create an enduring bond between him and his country.	Fenby, Jonathan		3624
The power of the ancients: Bettany Hughes contemplates the vanity of her profession as she outlines the reasons why we must continue to engage with our very distant past.	Hughes, Bettany	Viewpoint essay	908
The road ahead.	Mandler, Peter	Book review	137
The Thirties: An Intimate History.	Horwood, Catherine	Book review	620
The vortex that was Paris.	Whitelock, Anna	Book review	171
The West finds its Voice: the Western musical tradition of trained and professional performers, conductors and composers can trace its origins to the forms of Christian worship that developed in Europe during the first millennium.	Page, Christopher		3587
Tolstoy's epic.	Stargardt, Nicholas	Book review	238
Too left foot.	Davison, Giles	Letter to the editor	159
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England.	Bale, Anthony	Book review	471
Tudor portraits.	MacCulloch, Diarmaid	Book review	166