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Articles in November 2002 issue of History Today

• General history.(Bibliography)(Bibliography)
• Racism: a Short History.(Interracial Intimacy The Regulation of Race and Romance)(Book Review)
  by Ling, Peter
• The 18th century.(bibliography)(Bibliography)
• The early 20th century.(Bibliography)
• The 1542 inventory of the Palace of Westminster. (Frontline).(Book Review)
  by Hayward, Maria
• Ancient wooden jetties in Poole Harbour have been dated to 250BC by archaeologists from Bournemouth University and the Poole Bay Archaeological Research group--revealing the oldest port in Britain. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• History books of the year: the view from waterstone's.(Critical Essay)
  by Higgs, Martin
• Plan of campaign. (Letters).(Brief Article)
  by Meadows, I.
• George Lansbury: at the Heart of Old Labour.(Book Review)
  by Pearce, Robert
• Berlin: the Downfall 1945.(Book Review)
  by Welch, D.A.
• The St Brice's Day massacre: November 13th, 1002. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Seven tearoom interiors designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which have been in storage for thirty years, are to be restored and rebuilt as part of a new 35m [pounds sterling] Museum of Transport in Glasgow. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's greatest statesman: Jonathan Wright looks at the career of the statesman who might have steered Germany safely through the Weimar era.
  by Wright, Jonathan
• London before London. (Frontline).(Museum of London exhibit)
  by Lohman, Jack
• Hieroglyphics in an ancient pyramid in Guatemala have been deciphered by scientists who believe they may help explain the demise of the Mayan civilisation. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• The Americas.(bibiliography)(Bibliography)
• The second world war.(bibliography)(Bibliography)
• Inside GHQ: the Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy.(Japan: A Modern History)(Book Review)
  by Sims, Richard
• The fabrication of madame de Pompadour: Colin Jones discusses the art and artifice of the leading mistress of Louis XV.
  by Jones, Colin
• International prize for US historian. (Frontline).(Anthony Grafton wins award from International Balzan Foundation)
• The search for the real 007. (Frontline).
  by Cook, Andrew
• The remains of a medieval wooden ship, discovered in June during construction of an arts centre on the banks of the River Usk in Newport, South Wales, are to be saved from destruction by the Welsh Assembly. (News).(Brief Article)
• Self-published history.(bibliography)(Bibliography)
• The Manchu Way: the Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China.(Book Review)
  by Mitter, Rana
• The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena.(Nixon's Civil Rights Politics, Principles, and Policy)(Book Review)
  by Fairclough, Adam
• Who dares wins: historians have famously been divided into parachutists and truffle-hunters. M.R.D. Foot explains how he began his careeer as a real parachutist in the SAS. (Point Of Departure).
  by Foot, M.R.D.
• A `prehistoric prince', complete with gold earrings, has been found near Stonehenge--just five yards away from the skeleton of the `Amesbury Archer', who was discovered earlier this year. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• No prize for history: John Klier reviews Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's recent venture into the history of his native country. (Today's History).(Two Hundred Years Together 1795-1995)(Book Review)
  by Klier, John
• The nineteenth century.(Bibliography)
• Rohl call. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Watson, Alda
• Making a Living in the Middle Ages: the People of Britain 850-1520.(Book Review)
  by Saul, Nigel
• Paperback reissues .(Book Review)(Brief Article)
  by Pearce, Robert
• Innocence Abroad: the Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670.(How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World )(Book Review)
  by Elliott, J.H.
• Thomas Gainsborough: artist of a changing world: Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone look beyond the traditional view of Gainsborough and argue for a view of the painter beyond that of society portraitist, as a modernist responding to the broader themes o
  by Myrone, Martin
• The remains of two Roman villas have been discovered under a school football pitch in Wiltshire. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Ancient history and archaeology.(bibliography)(Bibliography)
• Softback biography.(Critical Essay)
• Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self.(The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslas Hollar in reality and imagination)(Book Review)
  by Pierce, Patricia
• Interesting Times: a Twentieth Century Life.(Book Review)
  by Snowman, Daniel
• The remains of London's first Temple Church have been uncovered near High Holborn, on the edge of the medieval city of London--just yards from the famous Temple Church which gives its name to the Middle and Inner Temple, two of the four Inns of Court. (Ne
• The lost city of Cambay. ((Frontline).(India)
  by Charan, Anubha
• Round and about November 2002. (Frontline).(Calendar)
• A skull with almost two inches of bone missing--removed during a Bronze Age operation--has been found on the banks of the River Thames at Chelsea by the Institute of Archaeology. (News).(Brief Article)
• The post-war world.(bibliography)(Bibliography)
• In reverse. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Zaiden, Rabbi S.
• Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million.(Book Review)
  by Smith, S.A.
• History and Historians in the Twentieth Century.(What is History Now?)(Book Review)
  by Black, Jeremy
• The medieval world.(bibliography)(Bibliography)
• Streamlining shopping: Louise Curth, Gareth Shaw and Andrew Alexander explain how the British supermarket was born. (Cross Current).
  by Alexander, Andrew
• Letters to the editor: Judith Knelman uses correspondence columns to illuminate changing views on marriage in the second half of the nineteenth century. (Cross Current).(Daily Telegraph's letters analysed)
  by Knelman, Judith
• 400 years of the Bodleian Library. (Frontline).
  by Clennell, William
• The Great War: television history revisited. (Frontline).(Television Program Review)
  by Downing, Taylor
• Obituaries. (History in the Media).(Brief Article)
• A midget submarine, which may have been the first casualty of the Pacific War, has been found in Pearl Harbor. (News).(Brief Article)
• Other November anniversaries. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
• Early modern Britain and Europe.(bibliography)(Bibliography)
• The Wild Girl, Natural Man and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment.(A Poisoned Chalice)(The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia)(Book Review)
  by Fara, Patricia
• The thigh bone of a Stone Age woman, possibly dating back 7,700 years, has been discovered in a dried-up channel of the Trent by scientists from Sheffield University. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Boniface VIII's bull Unam Sanctam. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Shifting perspectives on the great rebellion: Austin Woolrych reflects on how historians' approaches to the events of 1640-60 have been changing over the half century that he has been working on the period.
  by Woolrych, Austin
• State opening of the new Houses of Parliament: November 11th, 1852. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Gibraltar: apple of discord: as Gibraltar conducts a referendum on its future, Martin Murphy shows the degree to which its status was determined by rivalries between the 18th-century Great Powers. (Cross Current).
  by Murphy, Martin
• DNA tests on `Otzi', the Stone Age man whose body was discovered in an alpine pass between Austria and Italy in 1991, have revealed that his last two meals consisted of venison, ibex meat and cereals. (News).(Brief Article)
• A letter from Captain Cook, informing the Admiralty that he had returned from his first voyage to Australia in June 1771, has been discovered on the back of a picture frame containing Cook's bill to the Treasury for supplies for a later journey. (Shorts).
• Danish historians are calling for a sealed national archive, which may hold the names of up to 300,000 Danish Nazis or Nazi sympathisers. (Shorts).(Brief Article)