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Articles in December 2002 issue of History Today

• Music for the People: Popular music and dance in Interwar Britain.(Book Review)
  by Martland, Peter
• The Children of Kali: Through India in Search of Bandits, the Thug Cult and the British Raj.(Book Review)
  by Wagner, Kim A
• A 2,000-year-old stone plaque engraved with the Latin word `Londiniensium'-the oldest physical proof of the Roman naming of London--is to go on display at the Museum of London. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Items belonging to William Bligh, the captain of the infamous Bounty who suffered mutiny at the hands of his crew, have been purchased by the National Maritime Museum at auction. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Beginnings and endings. (Letters).
  by Brodhurst, A.H.
• Image conscious. (Letters).
  by Mcmurray, Ralph
• In Egypt, the new Library of Alexandria has reopened near the site where the original famed learning centre once stood 2,500 years ago. (News).(Brief Article)
• Aztecs: a new perspective: John M.D. Pohl reviews recent scholarship about the empire swept away by Cortes. (Cover Story).
  by Pohl, John M.D.
• Obituaries.(Brief Article)
• Lord Aberdeen becomes prime minister: December 19th, 1852. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The 1902 Education Act: Kevin Manton regrets the political decision to remove direct democratic control over education a hundred years ago. (Cross Current).
  by Manton, Kevin
• An expert in ancient inscriptions believes a burial box, dated to AD 63, could be the earliest piece of evidence suggesting Jesus existed. (News).(Brief Article)
• A Roman era iron factory has been uncovered at Brayford, Exmoor. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• God and the Normans. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Brown, Ian
• When hell came to Halifax: Howard Baker explains how the chance convergence of two vessels produced tragedy and disaster. (Cross Current).(collision of two freighters in harbor resulted in historic explosion)
  by Baker, Howard H.
• Other December anniversaries. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
• The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England .(Book Review)
  by Chandler, David G.
• BUND: the British Universities Newsreel Database. (Frontline).
  by McKernan, Luke
• Sewing Machines: liberation or drudgery for women? Joan Perkin discusses the impact on women's lives of the advent of the sewing machine.
  by Perkin, Joan
• Comm@NET--the community archive network: www.commanet.org.(not for profit organization offeres online community archives)(Brief Article)
• Armour discovered at the earliest permanent English colony in America could date back to its foundation in the early 17th century. (News).(Brief Article)
• Hitler's history films: David Welch looks at the dramatisation of Fuhrerprinzip in the Nazi cinema, and how history films were used to propagate themes of anti-parliamentarianism and the concept of an individual leader of genius.
  by Welch, David
• The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History.(Forgotten Voices of the Great War )(Book Review)
  by Downing, Taylor
• Contracting out: administrative privatization: in the reign of James I: Conrad Russell looks at the perks and pitfalls of public office-holding in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. (Administration Under James I).
  by Russell, Conrad
• A set of prehistoric stone structures resembling Stonehenge have been discovered in the mountainous southern Italian region of Calabria. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• English Heritage has announced that Hadrian's Wall is to receive a 7 million [pounds sterling] cash boost to help the site's recovery from the foot-and-mouth crisis. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• A valuable 15th-century marble sculpture of Adam in Paradise by the Renaissance sculptor Tullio Lombardo has smashed after falling from its plinth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Puffing Billy. (Frontline).(King William III)
  by Barclay, Andrew
• Deep thought: Gavin Menzies explains how a life as a submarine commander gave rise to the revolutionary notion that Europeans were not the first to sail round the globe. (Point Of Departure).
  by Menzies, Gavin
• What's wrong with television history? As a new channel dedicated to history opens up in the UK, Tom Stearn excoriates current fashion and points the way to a more historical past on TV. (Today's History).
  by Stearn, Tom
• The Peninsular War: A New History.(Napoleon and Berlin; Napoleon)(Book Review)
  by Fox, Adam
• Annual excavations at the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu, near Lima in Peru, have this year revealed a complete burial site--one of the best preserved to have been found at the Inca citadel in nine decades. (News).(Brief Article)
• The Closing of the Western Mind: the Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason.(Book Review)
  by Edwards, Mark
• Black sailors. (Letters).
  by Hudson, Andrew
• The great smog. (Frontline).
  by Davis, Devra
• Apocalypse. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Concannon, James
• The forty-seven ronin incident: December 14th, 1702. (Months Past).(infamous occurence in Japanese history)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Afghanistan and Gladstone's moral foreign policy: Roland Quinault discusses Gladstone's view of the Second Afghan War both in opposition and during his premiership.(British prime minister William Gladstone)
  by Quinault, Roland
• Files have been reopened on a massacre of Second World War Italian soldiers on the Greek island of Cephalonia. (News).(Brief Article)
• Round and about: December 2002.
• Madame Tussaud and her waxworks. (Frontline).
  by Pilbeam, Pam
• After 25 years of research, the Museo Ideale Leonardo Da Vinci in Italy has concluded that Da Vinci's father was a craftsman called Ser Piero Da Vinci and his mother, not a local peasant girl as had previously been thought, but a female slave known as Cat
• Cesare Borgia at Sinigallia: December 31st, 1502. (Months Past).(legendary military leader thwarts conspiracy)
  by Cavendish, Richard