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Articles in September 2003 issue of History Today
- House of collection: Will Palin recalls the labour of love behind the architect and collector Sir John Soane's efforts to create his home and museum on London's Lincoln's Inn Fields, and tells of the major restoration project that marks the 250th annivers
by Palin, Will - Plant and rock specimens collected during Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the Antarctic have enabled biologists to establish a theory about how forests survived in the South Pole.(News)(Brief Article)
- A rare Bronze Age cup has been acquired for 250,000 [pounds sterling] by the British Museum with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund and The National Art Collections.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity a History of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras.(A Century of Russian Violence in Soviet Russia )(Book Review)
by McCauley, Martin - Marriage of Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy: September 12th, 1953.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League baseball.(Sport & Society: America's national sport)
by Rubinstein, William D. - Venice barriers.(Frontline)(Venice in Peril Fund conference "Flooding and Environmental Challenges for Venice and its Lagoon: State of Knowledge 2003")(floods and sinking of Venice political as well as scientific problem)
by Furtado, Peter - A tin, found on the site of a Roman complex in Southwark, has been opened to reveal 2,000-year-old face cream.(News)(Brief Article)
- The search for the 17th-century warship HMS Sussex is to continue with the use of an exploratory robot.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- Never alone with a strand.(Editorial)
by Furtado, Peter - On top of the world: R.I. Moore celebrates the life and achievements of John Roberts, leading scholar of world history.(Frontline)(Roberts wrote for the layman, advancing public appreciation of history)(Obituary)
by Moore, R.I. - A government grant of 400,000 [pounds sterling] has been given to the Somme Association to help purchase a wood in France where thousands of British troops were killed during the First World War.(News)(Brief Article)
- William John Bankes (1786-1855).(Biography)
by Hayter, George - The 1947 diary of former US President Harry Truman has been rediscovered by an archivist in the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- Round and about: September 2003.(Frontline)(calendar of cultural events, London and UK)(Calendar)
- The discovery of an asteroid crater in the Italian Apennine mountains has prompted speculation that it may have been the cause of the legendary conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine.(News)(asteroid could have been the vision seen by Constantine)(Bri
- Edward, Mrs Simpson and the divorce law: Stephen Cretney investigates whether the government colluded in the suppression of evidence that might have prevented Wallis Simpson's divorce and royal marriage.(Cross Current)(Edward. Duke of Windsor and Wallis W
by Cretney, Stephen - Songs recorded by singer Edith Piaf in the Second World War and bought by the National Library in Paris in the 1960s have resurfaced after thirty years.(Shorts)(plans to re-release the songs on the 40th anniversary of Piaf's death)(Brief Article)
- A 17th-century mirrored palace in Pakistan, neglected for centuries, has been granted 600,000 [pounds sterling] for restoration from UNESCO.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- Excavations carried out over the past fifteen months at Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 site have found evidence of human activity dating back to the Stone Age, together with 80,000 objects, including 18,000 pieces of pottery, 40,000 pieces of worked fl
- Striking a blow for freedom: Jad Adams traces the momentous and paradoxical consquences of a failed assassination attempt.(Cross Current)(Felice Orsini)
by Adams, Jad - The Fall of France the Nazi invasion of 1940.(Book Review)
by Evans, Martin - To bury a myth.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Freeman, I.P. - Red-Color News Soldier: what led Li Zhengsheng, a Chinese newspaper photographer, to preserve vivid images of the Cultural Revolution, even at enormous personal risk?(Point Of Departure)(China under Mao Zedong)
- Meeting the costs of the hunt: Kyle Jones unearths the real expense involved in riding to hounds.(Cross Current)(fox hunting)
by Jones, Kyle - Turner and Venice.(Frontline)(Tate Britain's exhibition of J.M.W. Turner sponsored by Barclays PLC)
- A 7.5m [pounds sterling] memorial cathedral and museum has opened at the site of Ipatiyev House, Yekaterinburg, in the Urals, where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- The meaning of Magna Carta since 1215: Ralph V. Turner considers how and why Magna Carta became a beacon of liberty in Britain and, increasingly, in the United States.
by Turner, Ralph V. - The Unending Frontier an Environmental History of the Early Modern World.(Book Review)
by Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - What if Napoleon had landed? John Cookson asks what might have happened had Napoleon actually landed on British soil in 1803-5.(Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France)
by Cookson, John - The Sycharth Research Project has undertaken the first geophysical surveys at Sycharth, the Welsh border home of Owain Glyndwr, leader of the last major Welsh revolt against English rule.(News)(Brief Article)
- Magical mystery tour.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Clenaghen, Wenda - The battle of Assaye: September 23rd, 1803.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - Other September anniversaries.(Calendar)
- The Russians shall not have Constantinople: Roman Golicz looks at English attitudes to Russia during the Eastern crisis of 1870-78.
by Golicz, Roman - Joseph Chamberlain resigns as colonial secretary: September 14th, 1903.(Months Past )
by Cavendish, Richard - Propaganda and the first cold war in North Russia, 1918-1919: Antony Lockley examines the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and the propaganda battle between the Bolshevik and British forces on the Archangel front.
by Lockley, Antony