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Articles in July 2003 issue of History Today

• The roots of reform: Patrick Dillon identifies the mid-18th century as a watershed in ideas about reforming society. (Today's History).
  by Dillon, Patrick
• Thousands of American Indian and European artefacts found at a site in Virginia have prompted speculation that it could have been the village ruled by Powhatan, the Indian chief who was the father of the legendary Pocahontas. (News).(Brief Article)
• Britain and Russia. (Frontline).(issue contents)(Editorial)
• A wine produced in Pompeii has been recreated using botanical and archaeological research. (News).(Brief Article)
• Gloucester Cathedral's newly-restored 650-year-old stained glass Great East Window has gone on show, with the public now able to view it from four nearby vantage points in the choir. (News).(Brief Article)
• Canadian memorabilia. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Davies, Stephen
• Red House: Denise Silvester-Carr visits the house that proved an inspiration to many in the Arts and Crafts movement, and which opens to the public on July 16th. (Frontline).(purchased by the National Trust)
  by Silvester-Carr, Denise
• Round and about: July 2003.(Calendar)
• Britain and Russia 450 years of contact: Paul Dukes looks at the ups and downs of the relationship between the land of the lions and that of the double-headed eagle.
  by Dukes, Paul
• The Schrippenfest incident: Godfrey Hodgson tells of a little-known episode in which an unofficial American diplomat attempted to redraw the political map in the summer of 1914, bringing peace to Europe and development to the Third World.(Edward Mandell H
  by Hodgson, Godfrey
• King Alfred and the cult of St Edmund: Anna Chapman considers what lies behind the cult of an East Anglian king killed by the Vikings in 869.
  by Chapman, Anna
• Over 900 pamphlets from the English Civil War have been discovered at the Home Office. (News).(Brief Article)
• Evidence from the Warsaw Ghetto may be buried under the Chinese Embassy in the Polish capital. (News).(Brief Article)
• The globalisation of sport: Mike Cronin and Richard Holt, discover the roots of international sport in France. (Sport & Society).
  by Holt, Richard
• Anglo-Russian friendship. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Geekie, John
• Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II.(Book Review)
  by Gregor, Neil
• A campaign to canonise Queen Isabella of Castile is to be undertaken by Spain's Roman Catholic bishops. (News).(Brief Article)
• Orwell and Burke: strange bedfellows? Gordon Marsden sees an identity of outlook between two writers generally seen as occupying opposite ends of the political spectrum in Britain. (Cross Current).
  by Marsden, Gordon
• Lady Jane Grey proclaimed queen: July 10th, 1553. (Months Past).(Tudor England)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Stern reprimand. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Trent, Edmund K.
• Britons in Moscow in 1812: A.A. Orlove looks at the Britons who stayed in Moscow when Napoleon invaded, and those who visited after the destruction.
  by Orlov, Alexander A
• A new 1.2m [pounds sterling] museum devoted to the Barnardo's charity is to be built on the original site of the Village Home for Orphaned, Neglected or Destitute Girls in Barkingside, Essex. (News).(Barnardo Homes)(Brief Article)
• Five portraits have been stolen from Anne Boleyn's childhood bedroom in Hever Castle. (News).(Brief Article)
• English Heritage has purchased the disused quarry in Boxgrove, West Sussex, one of the county's most important Stone Age sites, for 100,000 [pounds sterling]. (News).(Brief Article)
• Writing on the wall. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Nichols, John
• The Irish Revolution and its Aftermath 1916-1923 Years of Revolt.(The Irish War of Independence)(Armed Struggle: A History of the IRA)(Book Review)
  by Townshend, Charles
• A rare palm tree, planted by Queen Victoria on her 32nd birthday in the garden of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, has died. (News).(Brief Article)
• Other July anniversaries. (Months Past).(historical dates)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
• Photographs of Alice Liddell--the real-life Alice in Wonderland--taken by Lewis Carroll have gone on public display for the first time at a new gallery at Bodelwyddan Castle in North Wales. (News).(Brief Article)
• An RAF pilot who went missing on a sortie in April 1944 has been buried at Durnbach War Graves Cemetery near Munich with full military honours. (News).(Commander Adrian Warburton )(Brief Article)
• Constantinople. .(Letter to the Editor)
  by Stretch, Lewis
• Edward Hull (d. 1453). (Commons Sense).(English leader of the 15th century)(Biography)
• One of the largest artificial pre-historic caverns has been discovered in North Wales. (News).
• Finish of the first Tour de France: July 19th, 1903. (Months Past).(byproducts of French bicycling craze )
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Liberated from the dead hand ... Lev Anninskiy describes his encounters with censored and uncensored history in Soviet Russia. (Point Of Departure).
  by Anninskiy, Lev
• Points of the Compass: Matthew Howells introduces History Compass, a new concept in history publishing. (Frontline).
  by Howells, Matthew
• An extensive Roman settlement has been uncovered near Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire. (News).(Brief Article)
• Less than Gloriana. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
  by Gallagher, Matthew
• Daniel Defoe put in the pillory: July 29th/31st 1703. (Months Past).
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The Cross and the Crescent Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation.(Infidels: The Conflict between Christendom and Islam)(Book Review)
  by Hamilton, Bernard
• The Special Operations Executive file on one of the most famous British spies in the Second World War has been declassified. (News).(Brief Article)
• Newly-published diaries hint at the possibility that Queen Victoria married her servant John Brown in a secret ceremony. (News).(diaries of Lewis Harcourt)(Brief Article)
• Erratum.(Correction Notice)
• Liverpool in the Blitz: Simon Jones describes 'Spirit of the Blitz: Liverpool in the Second World War', a new exhibition created by National Museums Liverpool which opens at the Merseyside Maritime Museum on July 10th. (Frontline).
  by Jones, Simon
• Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Columbus, Barcelona, the Millennium, Truth, Civilisations, Food and the Americas. (Cross Current).(Interview)
  by Snowman, Daniel