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Articles in October 2003 issue of History Today
- Black people in Tudor England: Marika Sherwood reveals the state of our knowledge--and ignorance--about a period of our multi-racial past.(Cross Current)
by Sherwood, Marika - Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium.(Book Review)
by Freeman, Charles - Restoration work has begun on the London house of Benjamin Franklin.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- A newly found shipwreck from the American Civil War era could be laden with gold coins worth up to 110m [pounds sterling], underwater explorers believe.(News)(Brief Article)
- A researcher from Oxford's English faculty has discovered a design for one of seven triumphal arches which were to have been built along a procession route celebrating James I's coronation in 1603.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- An epic swim by John F. Kennedy has been re-enacted in the Solomon Islands.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- Gulag: a History of the Soviet Camps.(Book Review)
by Rappaport, Helen - Robert Grosseteste dies October 9th, 1253.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - A private notebook belonging to Thomas Hardy is to be published for the first time.(News)(Brief Article)
- Art and patronage in late medieval England: to accompany the major exhibition opening at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Janet Backhouse explores the varied roles of patronage in the art of the later Middle Ages.
by Backhouse, Janet - A favour from Fuchs.(Letters)(Klans Fuchs)(Letter to the Editor)
by Tomlinson, David S. - Filming the First World War: Jonathan Lewis and Hew Strachan point out the daunting challenges and exciting opportunities involved in producing a new major TV series.(Today's History)
by Strachan, Hew - New DNA research on the body of the Bronze Age mummy discovered in the Alps in 1991 has revealed he could have killed up to four people before his death.(News)(Brief Article)
- An archaeological team from Glasgow University has located Roman farms and forts in Transylvania with the use of aerial archaeology.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- Other October anniversaries.(Calendar)
- One of the final missing sections of the Mary Rose may have been discovered in the Solent by marine archaeologists.(News)(Brief Article)
- Women at war: Penny Ritchie Calder of the Imperial War Museum introduces a major new exhibition for this autumn.(Frontline)
- Round and about: October 2003.(Frontline)(Calendar)
- Our friends from the East: Russian revolutionaries and British radicals, 1852-1917: John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political emigres to British life in the half-century before 1917.
by Slatter, John - War stories.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Griffin, John - Fortune of war: as the government prepares to bring casinos to our high streets, John Childs looks at a gambling craze of the 1690s.
by Childs, John - Thomas Westrowe (1616-53).(Commons Sense)(Biography)
- Anglo-American archaeologists have discovered a holy temple in Rome's Forum constructed by the emperor Caligula to imply that he himself was a god.(News)(Brief Article)
- Monkey puzzle: Hugh Miles assesses the significance of the Piltdown hoax, exposed fifty years ago this autumn.(Frontline)
by Miles, Hugh - Experts from the British Museum and Egypt have deciphered a 3,500-year-old inscription found earlier this year in a tomb at El Kab which reveals that a heavy defeat inflicted on the ancient Egyptians may have been removed from their historical records.(Ne
- Volunteers from the Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory have uncovered a pit near the northern town of Villaviciosa in Asturias containing the bones of 16 nurses executed during the Spanish Civil War.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- British Maritime History Seminars 2003-2004: cultures and commerce.(Calendar)
- End of the hundred years war October 19th, 1453.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - A monumental list: Martin Petchey outlines a proposed new scheme by the government to protect our heritage.(Frontline)
by Petchey, Martin - Lisa Jardine: in the 20th article in his quarterly series about today's historians, Daniel Snowman meets the Renaissance and Shakespeare scholar, historian of science and biographer of Erasmus, Bacon, Wren and Hooke.(Today's History)
by Snowman, Daniel - Fascinating papers detailing the furore over a pioneering 18th-century clock used to navigate at sea have been acquired by the National Maritime Museum.(Shorts)(Brief Article)
- Robert Emmet uninscribed: Marianne Elliott examines the facts and the myth of the unlikely Irish nationalist hero who vowed his 'tomb remain uninscribed until my country takes her place among the nations of the earth'.
by Elliott, Marianne - Protection from the Tyranny of Treatment: Natasha McEnroe shows that a new exhibition provides insights into both medical and sexual practices in the eighteenth century.(Frontline)
by McEnroe, Natasha - People of the book success in the English Reformation: Kari Konkola and Diarmaid MacCulloch use the evidence of book publishing to contribute to the debate about how widely the English Reformation affected ordinary men and women.
by MacCulloch, Diarmaid - Albert Schweitzer's nobel prize October 30th 1953.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - Harvard University is hoping to make the entire archive relating to the Nuremberg war-crimes trials available to the public on the Internet.(Shorts)(Brief Article)