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Articles in September 2002 issue of History Today

• Taken at face value. (Letters Page).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Sohn, Steven
• A cookbook dating from 1500 has been discovered at Longleat House, the ancestral home of the Marquis of Bath. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Declassified documents have revealed a division between Winston Churchill and General Dwight D Eisenhower concerning security over the D-Day landings. (News).(Brief Article)
• The Kamikaze mindset. (Frontline).
  by Axell, Albert
• New light on The Lady with the Lamp: Susan-Mary Grant looks at Florence Nightingale's influence on medical care in the Crimea and the US Civil War.
  by Grant, Susan-Mary
• Mistaken identity. (Letters Page).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Worthing, D.
• Drawing from history. (Point Of Departure).(book illustrating)
  by Ambrus, Victor
• Two new theories about the identity of the informant who gave away the hiding place of Anne Frank in 1944 have prompted a fresh investigation by Dutch government historians. (News).(Brief Article)
• The Gregorian calendar adopted in England: September 2nd, 1752. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Last post. (Letters Page).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Allington, Les
• Americanisation or globalisation? David Ellwood argues that the attempts of British politicians to copy an American `role model' are likely to fail. (Cross Current).(Column)
  by Ellwood, David
• Shameless: the Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols.(Review)
  by Jean L. Silver-Isenstadt, author.
• Seven golden `angel' coins dating from the 1460s have gone on display at the Museum of London after being discovered in Spitalfields. (News).(Brief Article)
• Rodney Hilton. (Frontline).(Obituary)
  by Wickham, Chris
• Monsieur Garnerin drops in: John Lucas extols the pioneers who helped develop the parachute, two centuries ago. (Cross Current).(Column)
  by Lucas, John
• An 18th-century lottery ticket, calculated to be worth 177 million [pounds sterling] today, has been found by a Devon man. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• British Museum scientists have discovered two head-dresses from the Great Death Pit at Ur in Iraq, dating from around 2500 BC, on an archive shelf. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Round and about: September 2002.
• The battle of Homildon Hill: September 14th, 1402. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World.(Review)
  by Throwing Fire Projectile Technology Through History. Alfred W. Crosby
• Big brother. (Letters Page).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Bishop, Alan J.
• Captain Cook's relatives may undergo DNA tests to determine whether a 200-year-old arrow in the Australian Museum collection was made from the explorer's thighbone. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Archaeologists have discovered that Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire may have had the technology in the early 16th century for large-scale iron production, prompting claims that Henry VIII's Reformation and dissolution of the monasteries may have delayed Brita
• Rock art in Egypt. (Frontline).
  by Young, Penny
• The Schlieffen plan--fantasy or catastrophe? Terence Zuber argues that the German army's rigid plan for a quick victory in France in 1914 was a postwar fabrication.(Column)
  by Zuber, Terence
• Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II.(Review)
  by Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II. Gerd Horten
• `A most felicitous foray': Dean Juniper shows the power of a `green' Victorian pressure group in action.(Column)
  by Juniper, Dean
• Amiens 1802: the phoney peace: David Johnson reconsiders the nature of the peace treaty between Britain and France and the tarnished reputation of prime minister Addington.(Column)
  by Johnson, David
• The long farewell: Russell Chamberlin observes as Menorca celebrates the bicentennial of Treaty of Amiens.(Column)
  by Chamberlin, Russell
• State of the nation. (Letters Page).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Venning, George
• Republican soldiers who were shot and buried in temporary roadside ditches by Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War are being systematically researched and identified by a memorial organisation. (News).(Brief Article)
• Archaeologists have found a jar of Roman fish paste, complete with a clay label, while building a subway in north-west England. (News).(Brief Article)
• An American memorial group is to compile a list of all the Allied combatants who died during the Normandy landings. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Serbia: the History behind the Name.(Review)
  by The Balkans From Constantinople to Communism. Dennis P. Hupchick
• Death of Emile Zola: September 20th, 1902. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Everyday life in a German town: Panikos Panayi explores the conditions endured by the people of Osnabruck between 1929 and 1949.(Column)
  by Panayi, Panikos
• Replicas of dilapidated and threatened ancient Egyptian sites are to be created using advanced technology in a new 36 million [pounds sterling] scheme. (News).(Brief Article)
• Anne de Montmorency: great master, great survivor: Glenn Richardson explores the talents and fortune of the 16th-century French courtier who served five kings.(Column)
  by Richardson, Glenn