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Articles in January 2003 issue of History Today

• Football, fainting and fatalities: 1923-1946: John Walton looks at the hidden problems of crowd safety off the pitch in England in the first half of the twentieth century. (Sport & Society).
  by Walton, John
• Historians and the Great Britons: Hugh Brogan looks at the BBC's great debate on the greatest Britons. (Today's History).(Television Program Review)
  by Brogan, Hugh
• The remains of six men who fought under Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 have been unearthed in Egypt. (Shorts).
• The Irish A Photohistory 1840-1940.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
  by Corr, Sheila
• Generalship: David Chandler considers what qualities a top soldier needs to be a winner. (Cross Current).
  by Chandler, David
• The Queen has inaugurated Britain's first national monument dedicated to the 5 million `forgotten' members of the Commonwealth who served in the First and Second World Wars. (News).(Brief Article)
• Two letters and an envelope containing pressed flowers collected after the Battle of Balaclava in 1854 have been acquired by the British Library. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Exploring Terra Australis: Peter Monteath recalls what happened when two explorers, whose nations were battling for supremacy, met on the other side of the world.
  by Monteath, Peter
• A dozen `secret' vaulted chambers linked by a network of narrow shafts and tunnels have been discovered in the stone structure supporting one of the towers of Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. (News).(Brief Article)
• A German historian has claimed that the Nazi regime developed a powerful drug based on cocaine that could have been used to boost the Wehrmacht towards the end of the war. (News).(Brief Article)
• A letter written in 1811 by Robert Adair, British Ambassador in Constantinople. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• The Casa de Contratacion established in Seville: January 20th, 1503. (Months Past).(international trade with the New World)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• `King of Scotland': Lauderdale and the Restoration North of the Border: Raymond Campbell Paterson re-examines the fortunes and friendships of a key figure of Charles II's administration.
  by Paterson, Raymond Campbell
• Henry Plantagenet arrives in England: January 6th, 1153. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Other January anniversaries. (Months Past).
• Indian cave art, discovered just outside the town of Shankargarh in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, has been dated to between 10,000 and 30,000 years old. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• The Antarctic Heritage Trust has revealed that fungus is destroying the early 20th-century huts used by Scott and Shackleton during their expeditions to Antarctica. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Correction.(Correction Notice)
• The Catalpa rescue mission. (Frontline).
  by Stevens, Peter
• Maudslay: the Maya man: Ian Graham celebrates the efforts of the archaeologist and photographer in opening up for study the Mayan civilisation of central America.(Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850-1931))
  by Graham, Ian
• The seventh man? (Letters).
  by Shipton, Frederick
• Tito elected president of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia: January 13th, 1953. (Months Past).(Biography)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• An impassioned love letter to Elizabeth I from the servant of a potential suitor will be on display for the first time since the Queen read it in 1581. (News).(Brief Article)
• Navigational aids for the history of science, technology and the environment.(Information Service Review)(Brief Article)
  by Fisher, Duncan
• One hundred and fifty years of The Field magazine. (Frontline).
  by Harvey, A.D.
• Spreading the gospel in the Middle Ages: Bernard Hamilton unravels the complex tale of the spread of the Christian faith and its competing hierarchies.
  by Hamilton, Bernard
• Black pudding: Jeremy Black, one of the most prolific historians of our time, explains the energy behind his perpetual-motion pen. (Point Of Departure).
  by Black, Jeremy
• Bethlehem 2002. (Frontline).
  by Young, Penny
• Linda Colley: Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Britons and Captives. (Today's History).(Book Review)
  by Snowman, Daniel
• Rock of ages. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Brownrigg, Henry
• John Knox-Democrat.(The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland by Margo Todd)(Book Review)
  by Brown, Keith M.
• Round and about: January 2003. (Frontline).
• The ownership of the 4 million [pounds sterling] limousine in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding when he was assassinated in 1914, is currently being disputed in court. (News).(Brief Article)
• Scientists have identified what are thought to be classic signs of leprosy in the skull of a Bronze-Age child who died in Scotland over 3,500 years ago. (News).(Brief Article)
• A stich in time. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Vincent, Don