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Articles in October 2001 issue of History Today

• The remains of an early Iron Age fortress have been uncovered alongside the Wallace Monument in the Scottish town of Stirling.(Brief Article)
• UNESCO has rebuked China for failing to protect the World Heritage site.(Brief Article)
• The Body Politic ~ Diseases and Discourses.(history of doctors in cartoons)
  by Porter, Roy
• Death of Tycho Brahe.(astronomer)(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Child's Play in Medieval England.(analysis)
  by Orme, Nicholas
• Roy FOSTER.(Robert Fitzroy Foster)
  by Snowman, Daniel
• The remains of Dark Age `beach parties' have been found in Devon.(Brief Article)
• Yale University Celebrates 300 Years of Academic History.
  by D'Eugenio, Rosalind
• Django, Jazz and the Nazis in Paris.(Django Reinhardt's music and World War II)(Excerpt)
  by Pelzer, John D.
• Painted Ladies.(Peter Lely's art exhibition on the women of Charles II)
  by Smith, Charles Saumarez
• The wreck of the Mary Celeste, the `ghost ship' that sparked a great maritime mystery.(ship found off Haiti)(Brief Article)
• The National Archives in Washington have released the extensive records of the notorious `House Un-American Activities Committee' of the late 1940s.(Brief Article)
• The 1951 General Election.(Brief Article)
  by Street, Peter
• ENGLAND'S PAST FOR EVERYONE.(Victoria History of the Counties of England)(Evaluation)
  by Fletcher, Anthony
• Obituaries.
• Revisionist historian, David Irving, has lost his appeal against the libel ruling last year which branded him a `Holocaust denier'.(Brief Article)
• Death of St Bruno.(biography)(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Other October Anniversaries.
• The Strange Death of Dag Hammarskjold.(airplane accident)
  by Hughes, Matthew
• Another Brick in the Wall.(Berlin Wall falling narrative)(Column)
  by Lang, Sean
• The last known British veteran of the ill-starred Gallipoli campaign has died in an Australian nursing home at the age of 106.(Brief Article)
• Round and About: October 2001.
• Churchill is Prime Minister again.(events of October 26, 1951)(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Bismarck and the Cartoonist.(Otto von Bismarck)
  by Coupe, W. A.
• Work has begun to restore Carnforth railway station -- made famous as the location for the 1945 film Brief Encounter.(Brief Article)
• Restoration is to begin this autumn of George V's 1911 coronation durbar site in Delhi.(Brief Article)
• Rome in Poland.(filming of Quo Vadis)(Brief Article)
  by Monte, Richard
• A first edition copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.(copy found and given to the Boston Public Library)(Brief Article)
• A Failed Truth -- A Reporter's View of Vietnam.(Brief Article)
  by Laurence, John
• LETTERS.
• The British government has agreed not to tax the construction of a new national war memorial.(Brief Article)
• GOODBYE, MR CUBE.(corporate advertising logo and politics)
  by Noon, Ron
• The Athelney cartulary, documenting the 9th-century foundation of a monastery on the Somerset island by Alfred the Great, has been discovered on a dusty shelf at Petworth House in West Sussex.(Brief Article)
• Much Ado?(possible portrait of Shakespeare at the Art Gallery of Ontario)
  by Dean, David