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Articles in August 2003 issue of History Today
- The Canal du Midi: Andrew Smyth recalls the vision and enterprise of one of Louis XIV's chief ministers and a Beziers businessman. (Frontline).
by Smyth, Andrew - University history.
by Pearce, Robert - Prince Potemkin and the Benthams: Simon Sebag Montefiore describes an unlikely project to create an English village in Belorussia involving Catherine the Great's lover and the philosopher Jeremy Bentham and his brother.
by Montefiore, Simon Sebag - A dilapidated building in a Tanzanian village once inhabited by the explorer Dr David Livingstone is to be renovated. (News).(Brief Article)
- The graves of thousands of soldiers from the First World War have been saved from destruction. (News).(Brief Article)
- Many antiquities feared lost during the recent war in Iraq have been found, allowing the Baghdad museum to re-open sooner than expected. (News).(Brief Article)
- Churchill's Cold War: the Politics of Personal Diplomacy.(Book Review)
by Pearce, Robert - History classes.
by Furtado, Peter - Pius X elected Pope: August 4th, 1903. (Months Past).
by Cavendish, Richard - A brooch discovered at an Anglo-Saxon burial ground at West Heslerton, close to Malton in North Yorkshire, is thought to contain the earliest type of written English. (News).(Brief Article)
- Archaeologists working in Edinburgh's Old Town after a recent fire have called for the re-examination of the 16th-century murder of Lord Darnley. (News).(Brief Article)
- Peace activists and historians have gathered in Bavaria to campaign for the prosecution of a German regiment responsible for a massacre on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 1943. (News).(Brief Article)
- The remains of Christopher Columbus have been removed from Seville Cathedral for DNA testing in the hope that the dispute over the explorer's final resting place may finally be solved. (News).
- A kingdom in crisis: Henry IV and the battle of Shrewsburry: Alastair Dunn discusses the battle and its repercussions in its 600th anniversary year.
by Dunn, Alastair - British archaeologists believe they may have identified the mummy of Queen Nefertiti, stepmother of Tutankhamun. (News).(Brief Article)
- Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1772-1840). (Common Sense).
- Round and about: August. (Frontline).
- A team of maritime archaeologists from the University of St Andrews is to search for the final resting place among the Essex marshes of HMS Beagle, the ship Charles Darwin served on as a naturalist. (News).
- Marriage of James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor: August 8th, 1503. (Months Past).
by Cavendish, Richard - A tiny dolls house, made in 1944 by a German prisoner of war for his Scottish guard, has been donated by his family to the Gordon Highlanders Museum. (News).(Brief Article)
- Domesday Book: a Complete Translation.(Book Review)
by Dunning, Robert - Tom Tucker, historian at the Isothermal Technical College in Northern Carolina, has questioned the experiment by the 18th-century US statesman Benjamin Franklin which led to the invention of the lightning conductor. (News).
- Raiders of the Lost Art: Jonathan Conlin considers the history of heritage panics, from relics to Raphaels. (Today's History).
by Conlin, Jonathan - Dog eat dog world. (Letter).(Letter to the Editor)
by Baldwin, Elmer D. - A British surgeon has put forward an intriguing explanation for the damage to the ear of the Dutch master Rembrandt which is evident in forty or so of his self portraits--a botched attempt at ear piercing. (News).(Brief Article)
- The festival of history: Emily Burns introduces a new weekend event run by English Heritage to bring history--particularly living history in many and varied forms, reaching well beyond the tradiitonal military re-enactments--to a wide public. (Frontline).
by Burns, Emily - Deep time in Kents Cavern: Kents Cavern, Devon, is famous throughout the world for its wealth of archaeology and geology. August 2003 marks the centenary of ownership by four generations of the Powe family. Margaret Powling investigates the cave's prehist
by Powling, Margaret G. - 'You say you want a revolution' Mikhail Safonov argues that the Beatles did more for the break up of totalitarianism in the USSR than Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. (Cover Story).
- Hunting, hawking and the early Tudor gentleman: James Williams considers hunting as the ideal pastime for the nobility in the sixteenth century.
by Williams, James - Why study the medieval past? Janet L. Nelson argues that the study of medieval history in British schools is just what the twenty-first century requires. (Today's History).
by Nelson, Janet L. - Start of the Lewis and Clark expedition: August 31st, 1803. (Months Past).
by Cavendish, Richard - The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82: Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent.
by Fenn, Elizabeth A. - Tests carried out at Queen Mary, University of London, on five strands of George III's hair have revealed that he may have suffered from arsenic poisoning. (News).(Brief Article)
- Other August anniversaries. (Months Past).
- New boss for the IHR. (Frontline).(Professor David Bates to succeed David Cannadine as Director of the Institute of Historical Research.)(Brief Article)(Biography)
- Where credit is due. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
by Rawles, Stephen - Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth Century France: the Politics of Halevy's La Juive.(Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth Century France: The Politics of Halevy's La Juive)(Proof through the Night Music and the Great War)(The
by Mourby, Adrian - The bodies of four Bronze Age adults and two children have been unearthed close to the grave of the Amesbury Archer in Wiltshire. (News).
- Radioactive leak: Andrew Cook compares notes from Soviet sources and recently released MI5 files on Klaus Fuchs, the British nuclear physicist and spy who helped the Soviet Union develop the atom bomb. (Frontline).
by Cook, Andrew - Zhukov on set? (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
by Wroblewski, J.