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Articles in November 2003 issue of History Today

• Heavy rains have caused serious damage to the Unesco-designated world heritage city Timbuktu in Mali, West Africa.(News)(Brief Article)
• Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
  by Pollard, A.J.
• The Dancer Defects: the Struggler for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
  by Beckett, Francis
• Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, postmodernism and history.(Book Review)
  by Snowman, Daniel
• Death of Ibn Saud; November 9th, 1953.(Months Past)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Tests on bones excavated from Wharram Percy, a Yorkshire village abandoned in 1500, have led scientists to believe that medieval babies who were breastfed were just as healthy as modern children.(News)(Brief Article)
• Norway may begin a search for the wreck of the seaplane in which Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, died in 1928 while searching for a fellow Italian explorer.(News)(Brief Article)
• The early Stuarts and Hampton court; Simon Thurley explains why the first Stuarts kept the great Tudor palace virtually intact.
  by Thurley, Simon
• British sports in imperial Russia: as part of our Britain and Russia series, and also our Sport and Society series, Anthony Cross describes the introduction of British games to Russia.(Sport & Society)
  by Cross, Anthony
• Early Modern Britain and Europe.(Bibliography)
• The Postwar World.(Bibliography)
• A Modern History of Japan from Tokugawa Times to the Present.(Book Review)
  by Waswo, Ann
• Sydney rock art.(Frontline)
  by Mattila, Samantha
• Lone assassins: forty years after the fatal assassination of JFK, during which time conspiracy theories have flourished, Andrew Cook returns to the idea of the unaided assassin, and finds several twentieth-century examples.
  by Cook, Andrew
• The German people's day of mourning.(Frontline)(Brief Article)
  by Fawcett, Gabriel
• Experts from the British Museum have revealed the name of a previously unknown Romano-British goddess after analyzing treasure found in a field near Baldock, Hertfordshire.(News)(Senua)(Brief Article)
• Other November anniversaries.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
• The Vatican has drawn attention to a newly found letter in its archives which it argues shows that the Church did not harshly persecute Galileo.(News)(Brief Article)
• A British scientist claims to have rediscovered how the Romans created imperial purple--one of the oldest dyes known to man.(News)(John Edmonds)(Brief Article)
• Canada and the Americas.(Bibliography)
• The Eighteenth Century.(Bibliography)
• Eastern Europe and Russia.(Bibliography)
• The Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 is to go on public display in Washington in December after months of restoration work.(News)(Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's hangar)
• Kiss me, Horatio: Margarette Lincoln and Colin White debate the significance of a recently discovered cache of letters from Frances Nelson to her husband's prize agent written at the time of the collapse of her marriage to Britain's greatest naval hero.(C
  by White, Colin
• More sense.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Usick, Patricia
• Stand up and be counted: Mark Steel, stand-up comedian and presenter of history on television and radio, describes how punk rock helped politicise a generation, and whet his own appetite for enquiring about the past.(Point of Departure)
  by Steel, Mark
• The Complete Roman Army.(In the Name of Rome)(Book Review)
  by Shadrake, Susanna
• The Measure of All Things: the Seven-Year Odyssey That Transformed the World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
  by Black, Jeremy
• The shrine of Islam's tragic divisions.(Frontline)
  by Atkins, Corinne
• Greek archaeologists excavating on the Aegean island of Chios have found evidence of successful brain surgery--or trepanning--dating back to as early as 250 BC.(News)(Brief Article)
• The great storm; November 24th, 1703.(Bibliography)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The ideal of unity; Russell Chamberlin examines the origins and development of Europe's persistent vision of unity from the birth of the Holy Roman Empire to its fall.
  by Chamberlin, Russell
• The Rose of Martinique.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
  by Porter, Linda
• Papers detailing an extravagant banquet laid on for Elizabeth I by one of her favourite courtiers have gone on public show.(News)(Brief Article)
• The Longest Shadow: in the Aftermath of the Holocaust.(Book Review)
  by Cole, Tim
• Taking Flight: Inventing the aerial age from antiquity through the first Word War.(Book Review)
  by Harvey, A.D.
• Researchers have revealed that the ancient Greeks copied the system of alphabetic numerals from an earlier Egyptian counting system.(News)(Brief Article)
• 9/11 ... 1910: Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now.(Cross Current)
  by Porter, Bernard
• The Medieval world.(Bibliography)
• General History.(Bibliography)
• The Americas: a Hemispheric History.(American Colonies: the Settling of North America)(Book Review)
  by Ling, Peter J.
• Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939-1945.(Book Review)
  by Gardiner, Juliet
• Trench art: Nicholas J. Saunders explores the ways in which humans make art from objects of death, in conflicts spanning the Napoleonic to Bosnian Wars.(war materials turned into art)
  by Saunders, Nicholas J.
• Round and about: November 2003.(Frontline)(Calendar)
• An English manor house has been named as the oldest continuously occupied house in England.(News)(Saltford Manor House)(Brief Article)
• The Bolshevik-Menshevik split; November 16th, 1903.(Months Past)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The dictators, the Second World War and the Holocaust.(Bibliography)
• Coming to terms with the past.(Frontline)(Editorial)
  by Furtado, Peter
• The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.(Bibliography)
• Viewers of the BBC television series Restoration have voted to save Manchester's Victoria Baths from ruin.(News)(Brief Article)
• Military history today: Jeremy Black calls for a more wide-ranging, inclusive approach to the history of warfare.(Today's History)
  by Black, Jeremy
• A series of notes taken during science lessons given by Marie Curie have been published to mark the centenary of her receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics.(News)(Brief Article)
• Publish or be damned: David Johnson describes the infamous Marriage Act of 1753, which made marriage a tightly-regulated institution governed by church and state.
  by Johnson, David
• Archaeology and the ancient world.(Bibliography)
• John, 3rd Baron Lovelace.(Commons Sense)
  by Eagles, Robin
• The Book People.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Pickles, Stephen
• The Origins of World War I.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
  by Rubinstein, William D.
• A historian of microbiology has claimed that Hitler survived the July 20th, 1944, assassination attempt after being treated with penicillin from the Allies.(News)(Milton Wainwright)(Brief Article)
• Transition, history and human rights; 'a country without justice or memory does not have a destiny.'.(Today's History Coming To Terms With The Past)(related article: Algeria: Islam, Democracy and Violence)
  by Evans, Martin
• London and England.(Bibliography)
• Paperback choice.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
• Asia, Central Asia and the Far East.(Bibliography)
• Top of the pots.(Frontline)
  by Crow, Charlotte
• The First World War.(Bibliography)