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Articles in March 2003 issue of History Today

• Inauguration of President Pierce: March 4th, 1853. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Sir Robert Dudley: Duke of Northumberland: this swashbuckling chancer lived two lives, the first English, the second Italian. Raymond E. Role chronicles the chameleon career which ranges from Elizabethan privateer, explorer and courtier to Stuart expatria
  by Role, Raymond E.
• Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82.(Book Review)
  by Black, Jeremy
• Death of Robert Hooke: March 3rd, 1703. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• History and the media: are you being hoodwinked? Documentary film-maker Martin Smith calls for makers of history programmes for television to reassess their standards.(Column)
  by Smith, Martin
• Great and good? (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Dabby, Benjamin
• A Greek ship that may once have supplied fish to Alexander the Great's army and the markets of Athens has been found off the coast of Bulgaria by Dr Robert Ballard, the deep-sea explorer who found the wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck. (News).(Brief Arti
• Liverpool's famed waterfront and civic buildings have been chosen as Britain's 2003 nomination for world heritage status. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850.(Book Review)
  by Armitage, David
• Heraldry and the medieval gentlewoman: Maurice Keen looks at the significance of female lines of descent in heraldic arms, and what this tells us about women of noble and gentle birth in medieval England.
  by Keen, Maurice
• Round and about: March 2003. (Frontline).(history seminars)
• The mysterious case of Elizabeth Canning: Bevis Hillier investigates the alleged abduction 250 years ago, of a young servant girl, which divided London society at the time and has puzzled historians ever since.
  by Hillier, Bevis
• Who's our best teacher? (Frontline).(history teacher award)
• A triangular, purple rock axe-head, which has prompted a debate over the evolution of the human mind, has gone on show in New York's American Museum of Natural History. (News).
• The wreck of HMS Ark Royal one of the most famous wartime ships, has been found in 3,500ft of water by divers filming a BBC documentary. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• A medieval carved angel in Lincoln Cathedral library is to be frozen at -50[degrees]C in order to destroy an army of death watch beetles which are currently devouring it. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• A forensic police artist has drawn a portrait of the novelist Jane Austen, based on letters and pictures of her family. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Personal possessions of the Scottish inventor James Watt (1736-1819) are to be auctioned at Sotheby's this month. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• The charting of the Red Sea: Sarah Searight tells how the efforts of the little-known Robert Moresby, together with the innovation of the marine steam engine, revolutionized trade and transport for the British Empire in the perilous waterway.
  by Searight, Sarah
• M15 has chosen Christopher Andrew, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to write an authorised history of the Secret Service, to mark its centenary in 2009. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• The mystery of Stalin: Paul Wingrove examines the starkly different interpretations that seek to explain the career of Joseph Stalin, who died fifty years ago this month. (Cross Current).(Biography)
  by Wingrove, Paul
• Cardnal Richelieu: hero or villain? Robert Knecht looks at the `eminence rouge' and considers how his image, carefully crafted during his lifetime, has become that of a demonic schemer.
  by Knecht, Robert
• Obituaries.(Brief Article)
• Back to narrative at the History Today Awards. (Frontline).
  by Furtado, Peter
• Spinning out of control: Ian Hargreaves traces the origins, and deplores the impact, of the unholy alliance between public relations and politics, business and journalism.(Column)
  by Hargreaves, Ian
• Archaeologists have raised a well-preserved Roman warship from a former riverbed close to Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa. (News).(Brief Article)
• Demolition work has begun after six bunkers, which once formed part of Hitler's infamous West Wall, were decreed a safety hazard and a potential meeting point for neo-Nazis. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Archaeologists in Scotland have unveiled a 17th-century iron cannon recovered from the wreck of the Swan, a 200-ton Cromwellian warship which sank off Mull while attacking the royalist stronghold of Duart Castle in 1653. (News).(Brief Article)
• Gazettes-Online: http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/.
• The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil.(Book Review) (book review)
  by Black, Jeremy
• The Victorians.(Book Review)
  by MacKenzie, John M.
• The Thomas Paine Society. (Frontline).
  by Morrell, Robert
• A 15th-century wall painting of a woman in a low-cut gown has been uncovered at the Bishop's Palace in Wells. (Shorts).(Brief Article)
• Sewn up. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Piper-Rustad, Patricia
• The Vatican has announced that it will declassify its archives relating to the years leading up to the Second World War in an attempt to prove the Roman Catholic Church was opposed to the Holocaust. (News).(Brief Article)
• Death of Joseph Stalin: March 5th, 1953. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• War of words. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Urwin, Gregory J.W.
• Other March anniversaries.
• Tired of London? Then read on ...: Lord Harmsworth tells how an accident of birth resulted in his running Dr Johnson's House in London. (Point Of Departure).
  by Harmsworth, Lord
• Kulturkampf: the German quest for penicillin. (Frontline).
  by Shama, Gilbert