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Articles in July 2004 issue of History Today

• Lost city.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Pollack, Elliott B.
• Mary Queen of Scots and the French connection: Alexander Wilkinson considers what the French made of the controversial royal who played a pivotal role in the French wars of religion, both as Queen of Scots and Queen of France.
  by Wilkinson, Alexander
• A collection of unique Mughal treasures which once belonged to Clive of India has fetched three times its estimated value at auction.(News)(Brief Article)
• A new visitor centre is to be built at the battlefield of Waterloo in Belgium.(News)(Brief Article)
• United We Stand.(Book Review)
  by Wrigley, Chris
• Mr Marconi has whispered to me.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Brown, Stanley
• William Hodges, art and empire: Geoff Quilley shows how the work of Hodges, official artist on Cook's second voyage and subject of a major exhibition opening this month at the National Maritime Museum, sheds light on perceptions of the British Empire.(Cri
  by Quilley, Geoff
• Women in England 1760-1914: a Social History.(Book Review)
  by Purvis, June
• Round and about: July 2004.(Frontline)(Calendar)
• An award of almost 1m [pounds sterling] has been made by the National Heritage Memorial Fund to help establish the first British tribute honouring the millions of civilian and servicewomen involved in the Second World War.(News)(Brief Article)
• Simon Schama: Daniel Snowman meets the celebrated telly-don and historian of 17th-century Holland, 18th-century France and America, all of British history and much else besides.(Today's History)(Critical Essay)
  by Snowman, Daniel
• The Trans-Siberian Railway completed: July 21st, 1904.(Months Past)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The Winchester marriage, 1554: Michael Leech visits the city that is celebrating the anniversary of the marriage of Mary Tudor and the future Philip II of Spain, 450 years ago this month.(Frontline)
  by Leech, Michael
• A number of MPs are campaigning for a posthumous pardon for suffragettes who carried out the civil disobedience campaign in Edwardian Britain.(News)(Brief Article)
• A new investigation into the plague epidemics that ravaged medieval Europe has concluded that they were caused not by rodents, but by travellers moving between towns and villages.(News)(Brief Article)
• Alexander the Great: hunting for a new past? Paul Cartledge goes in search of the elusive personality of the world's greatest hero.(Cover Story)
  by Cartledge, Paul
• Wace without prejudice: Valentine Fallan offers a new look at a once-derided source for the Norman Conquest.(Frontline; Norman poet 's account)
  by Fallan, Valentine
• Cock and bull story.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Watson, David R.
• The former home of Benito Mussolini is to be turned into a museum to remember Italy's victims of the Holocaust.(News)(Brief Article)
• Veteran code-breakers from Bletchley Park have joined current experts in an attempt to unravel the code on a garden ornament in the grounds of the historic stately home of Shugborough.(News)(Brief Article)
• Macbeth defeated at Dunsinane: July 27th, 1054.(Months Past)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Other July anniversaries.(Months Past)(Calendar)
• The Fitzwilliam Museum re-opens its doors; museum director Duncan Robinson reintroduces the famous Cambridge museum that has undergone some major developments in recent months.(Frontline)
  by Robinson, Duncan
• The earliest reference to baseball has been unearthed in America, putting the origin of the sport back by more than half a century.(News)(Brief Article)
• Coloured ribbons for valour.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Sealy, D.L.F.
• Oak trees planted on the orders of Lord Nelson will be used to restore HMS Victory in time for the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar next year.(News)(Brief Article)
• Rumours that a Hawaiian arrow was carved from the bone of Captain James Cook have been disproved by DNA tests.(News)(Brief Article)
• William Gulston, Bishop of Bristol, 1679-84.(Commons Sense)
• The Republican Party founded: July 6th, 1854.(Months Past)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Lessons from history: Alan Ereira, producer of many broadcast historical documentaries and presenter of a new series on the Kings and Queens of England for UKTV History, explains why history is important, despite all doubts.(Point Of Departure)
  by Ereira, Alan
• Catastrophe at Smyrna: Matthew Stewart traces the roots of the Greco-Turkish war of 1921-22, and the consequent refugee crisis, to the postwar settlements of 1919-20.
  by Stewart, Matthew
• The great train crash of 1868: Robert Hume investigates the first of the major railway disasters in Britain, which took the lives of over thirty people in a collision in North Wales.(Cross Current)
  by Hume, Robert
• Alan Turing: codebreaker and computer pioneer: B.J. Copeland and Diane Proudfoot recall the contribution to the war effort in 1939-45 of the British computer scientist, whose death fifty years ago has recently been commemorated.(Frontline)
  by Proudfoot, Diane
• Moustaches and sandals.(Frontline)
  by Furtado, Peter
• A little of what you fancy.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by West, Stewart
• A working model of a 'car' drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1478 has been tested for the first time.(News)(Brief Article)
• A prehistoric mound should be reclassified as a building because it is manmade, a public enquiry has heard.(News)(Brief Article)
• Coming to terms with the past: Northern Ireland: Richard English argues that historians have a practical and constructive role to play in today's Ulster.(Today's History)
  by English, Richard
• Alexander's final resting place: Andrew Chugg pinpoints the Emperor's long-lost tomb.(Cover Story)
  by Chugg, Andrew
• Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England.(Book Review)
  by Saul, Nigel
• Wealth and Poverty: David Bates introduces the summer's major historical conference.(Frontline)
  by Bates, David