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Articles in August 2002 issue of History Today

• History at University 2002. (University History).
  by Pearce, Robert
• A newspaper in Rome has revealed that a tunnel beneath the city was planned as an escape route by Mussolini. (News).(Brief Article)
• Obituaries. (History in the Media).(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• Other August anniversaries. (Months Past).(European history)(Brief Article)
• To die for? Paul Cartledge sees ancient Spartan society and its fierce code of honour as something still relevant today.
  by Cartledge, Paul
• Round and about: August 2002. (Frontline).
• The remains of a wooden patrol boat captained by JFK. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Hussein made King of Jordan: August 11th, 1952. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Police and public service: Simon Kitson highlights the conflicting demands made on the police in postwar France. (Cross Current).
  by Kitson, Simon
• The realities of war: Mike Finn looks at the Liverpool press to find out what people back home were told about conditions on the Western Front.
  by Finn, Mike
• Royal Historical Society bibliography. (Frontline).
  by Archer, Ian W.
• Festival of Empire. (Frontline).(Commonwealth Games)
  by Burton, Nigel
• Ancient shipwrecks and other underwater historic sites off the English coast are to come under the protection of English Heritage for the first time. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Deciphering history: Andrew Robinson looks at some linguistic puzzles still facing historians.
  by Robinson, Andrew
• Famous history graduates: David Nicholls demonstrates that history, rather than being `irrelevant' is a passport to success in the world of work. (Cross Current).
  by Nicholls, David
• A convict surgeon has been named as Daniel Defoe's prototype for Robinson Crusoe. (News).(Brief Article)
• Prize books.(Brief Article)
• The US Supreme Court has ruled that four watercolours by Adolf Hitler, brought to the US as war booty in 1945, should be kept by the American army. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• England's lost houses: Giles Worsley explains why so many country houses were demolished in the last century. (Today's History).
  by Worsley, Giles
• The Myth of Nations The Medieval Origins of Europe.
  by Dyer, Christopher
• English Heritage has dedicated a garden at Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire to the sixteen conscientious objectors who were imprisoned there during the First World War. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• St Helena's 500th anniversary. (Frontline).(Brief Article)
  by Spencer, Pamela
• Birth of Leni Riefenstahl: August 22nd, 1902. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• By George. (Letters).(George III) (book review)
  by Wardroper, John
• A Roman amphitheatre in London has opened to the public for the first time since it was used for gladiatorial combat. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• A Century of Troubles: England 1600-1700.
  by Miller, John
• Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000. (book review)
  by Robbins, Keith
• Three blooms linked with the Wars of the Roses have been re-planted together in London's Temple Gardens for the first time in more than 500 years. (News).(Brief Article)
• Cambridge Modern History. (Frontline).
  by Bentley, Michael
• Intimacy and painting in Ming China.
  by Clunas, Craig
• The novelist Fanny Burney has been honoured with a memorial window in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Arthur of Brittany captured: August 1st, 1202. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• A hand-drawn sketch by Admiral Nelson, illustrating the detailed battle plan he was to use at Trafalgar, has been found during research at the National Maritime Museum. (News).(Brief Article)
• Edward IV and the alchemists: Jonathan Hughes looks at the significance, in alchemical terms, of this reign, and what the king himself made of alchemical prophecy.
  by Hughes, Jonathan
• Cota Coca, an Inca town thought to be one of the last strongholds against the Spanish conquistadors, has been uncovered in cloud-forest by a British and American expedition, the Royal Geographical Society has announced. (News).(Brief Article)
• Away with them. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Paterson, Raymond Campbell