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Articles in November 2001 issue of History Today

• Archaeologists working at the Soutra Hospital site near Edinburgh have discovered a medieval cure for hangovers. (News).(Brief Article)
• Elizabeth I's `Golden' Speech: November 30th, 1601. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The Norsemen in the Viking Age. (The Medieval World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Bury Bible. (The Medieval World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Nation and Province in the First British Empire. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Second World War: A People's History. (The Second World War).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Lemonade Socialism. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Walford, William
• Catherine the great: a personal view.(Critical Essay)
  by de Madariaga, Isabel
• A.G. Dickens and his reformation. (Frontline).
  by Haigh, Christopher
• Round and about: November.
• The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Land Warfare: An Illustrated World View. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Death of Kate Greenaway: November 6th, 1901. (Months Past).(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The Life of Max Mallowan: Archaeology and Agatha Christie. (Ancient history and archaeology).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex and the Crisis of Belief. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The King's Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• A History of Britain -- The British Wars 1603-1776. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Island Fortress: The Defence of Great Britain 1603-1945. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Bloody Tenant of Persecution for Cause of Conscience: Classics of Religious Liberty, vol II by Roger Williams (1603-1683). (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Life of Sir John Eldon Gorst: Disraeli's Awkward Disciple. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Annotated Bibliography Of Works About Sir Winston Churchill. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Gifts to Tsars: Treasures from the Kremlin. (Russia).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed. (Russia).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• View Across the River: Harriette Colenso & the Zulu Struggle against Imperialism. (The Wider World). (book review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Morituri te salutant? (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Wiseman, Peter
• Joachim von Ribbentrop `The most brainless boy' in Hitler's class? Richard Wilkinson considers the character and standing of the much-despised Nazi Foreign Minister.
  by Wilkinson, Richard
• Unknown amazon. (Frontline).(Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil)
  by McEwan, Colin
• Other November anniversaries. (Months Past).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
• City status in the United Kingdom: John Beckett investigates the thorny, and sometimes illogical, issue of what makes a City. (Cross Current).
  by Beckett, John
• Roger Morrice and his entring book: Mark Goldie reveals some vivid insights into London life before and during the Glorious Revolution, from a little-known contemporary of Pepys. (Cover Story).(Review)
  by Goldie, Mark
• The Godwins. (The Medieval World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Knights Templar in Britain. (The Medieval World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• English Farmworkers and Local Patriotism, 1900-1930. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Gallipoli 1915. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The War Within World War II: the United States and International Cartels. (The Second World War).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• L'Anglaise et Le Duc, a new film by director Eric Rohmer. (News).(Review)
• Deep time and Australian history: Tom Griffiths continues our series on history and the environment, travelling into the longue duree of the Australian past.
  by Griffiths, Tom
• Burial Practice in Early England. (Ancient history and archaeology).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Waterloo Companion. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Emperor Charles V, 1500-1558. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Coronation Book of Charles V. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Renaissance Monarchy: The Reigns of Henry VIII, Francis I and Charles V. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• In the Shadow of the Throne: The Lady Arbella Stuart. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 1720-1892. (Scottish history).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Living on a Deadline. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• De Valera, Fianna Fail and the Irish Press. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War 1939-1940. (Russia).
  by Pointer, Anne
• Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. (The Second World War).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Global History: A Short Overview. (The Wider World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century. (The Wider World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Chile, Pinochet, and the Caravan of Death. (The Wider World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• A new computer-scanning technique has been used at Oxford University to decipher faint markings on Roman writing tablets found close to Hadrian's Wall. (News).(Brief Article)
• Images beyond history: photographs of the Western Front: in the second article in the Picturing History series, Sander L. Gilman reflects on images of the First World War and the photographs of Alan Cohen. (Cover Story).(Cover Story)
  by Gilman, Sander L.
• Archaeologists have reconstructed what is believed to be a 660-year-old glass portrait of Lady Godiva from the ruins of Coventry's first cathedral. (News).(Brief Article)
• Scottish Nationalists have called for the inclusion. (Shorts).(worker uprising part of curriculum)(Brief Article)
• Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture. (Ancient history and archaeology).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Kings and Queens of Scotland. (Scottish history).
  by Pointer, Anne
• The German Offensives of 1918. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• By Order Of The President: FDR and the Internment Of Japanese Americans. (The Second World War).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Glasgow in 1901. (Scottish history).
  by Pointer, Anne
• An ancient Chinese city, destroyed by flooding following a massive earthquake in AD 110. (News).(Brief Article)
• An interview with Edda, daughter of Benito and Rachele Mussolini. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• The ministry and the malady: Paul Brassley puts MAFF's policy towards foot and mouth disease into historical perspective. (Cross Current).(Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
  by Brassley, Paul
• Proper history and sixth-form history: Martin Roberts regrets lost opportunities in the recent reform of A-level syllabuses. (Today's History).
  by Roberts, Martin
• Josephine Butler. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis. (The Medieval World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Murder in the Tower and other tales from the State Trials. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament: House of Commons, III. 21 March 1640 - 17 April 1641. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Battles of The Thirty Years War: From White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618-1635. (Early Modern Europe).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Britain and Empire: Adjusting to a Post-Imperial World. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Class Against Class: The Communist Party in Britain Between the Wars. (Enlightenment, Industry and Empire).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939. (Russia).
  by Pointer, Anne
• Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia. (Russia).
  by Pointer, Anne
• Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000. (Russia).
  by Pointer, Anne
• Nasser's Egypt, Arab Nationalism, and the United Arab Republic. (The Wider World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement. (The Wider World).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne
• An economy geared to war: Richard Overy argues that the lesson Hitler drew from 1914-18 was not that a major war should be avoided, but that Germany should prepare more systematically so that, next time, she would win.
  by Overy, Richard
• Handel's houses. (Frontline).
  by Snowman, Daniel
• Minotaur. (Ancient history and archaeology).(Review)
  by Pointer, Anne