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Articles in August 2004 issue of History Today
- Without reservations: Peter Furtado visits the British Museum to see a newly-acquired collection of Native American objects.(Frontline)
by Furtado, Peter - A recent study has shown that the British government deliberately attempted to conceal the fact that 250,000 underage British soldiers--some as young as fourteen--were recruited into the army during the First World War.(News)(Brief Article)
- A previously unstudied letter by Elizabeth I's most trusted adviser has indicated that the Turkish fleet may have played an important role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada.(News)(Brief Article)
- Documents uncovered from the Vatican archives have indicated that far fewer individuals may have suffered under the Spanish Inquisition than was previously thought.(News)(Brief Article)
- Smyrna eyewitness.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Shonfield, David - Inside out Jersey.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Haydon, F.E.W. - A Titian for the National Gallery: August 14th, 1904.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - Ferdinand Columbus: print collector: Mark McDonald introduces an earlier Spaniard with a famous name who made an art collection in the Low Countries.
by McDonald, Mark - The French prime minister has attended a 60th anniversary service commemorating the victims of an SS massacre in a French village.(News)(Brief Article)
- The eye-opener of 1939: or how the world saw the Nazi-Soviet pact: George Watson considers how news of a political and moral bombshell was received, particularly by intellectuals on both the Left and the Right.(Cover Story)
by Watson, George - Partners at the Creation: the Men Behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments.(Book Review)
by Stolz, Richard - The pistol used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has been discovered in a Jesuit community house in Austria.(News)(Brief Article)
- Accounting for Taste: the Triumph of French Cuisine.(Book Review)
by Leech, Michael - Topolski's brush with the United Nations: gallery owner John Martin appeals to readers to help identify figures in a significant work 'The Opening Session of the United Nations' by the twentieth-century artist Feliks Topolski.(Frontline)
by Martin, John - Birth of Louis XVI of France: August 23rd, 1754.(Months Past)(Biography)
by Cavendish, Richard - For valour.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Bates, Tom - Marlborough country: Charles Spencer tells how the victories of his great ancestor John Churchill have always fascinated him.(Point Of Departure)
by Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of - Troop withdrawals from Korea: August 18th, 1954.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - Sir Thomas Gerrard (1584-1630).(Commons Sense)(Biography)
- 1704: Blenheim, Gibraltar and the making of great power: Jeremy Black recalls two events, 300 years ago this summer, that heralded the emergence of Britain as a Continental power.
by Black, Jeremy - Archaeologists believe a Bronze Age family from Wales whose skeletons were uncovered near Stonehenge are very likely to have been involved in the construction of the ancient monument.(News)(Brief Article)
- 4,000 war veterans and their families have benefited from over 1m [pounds sterling] in Lottery money enabling them to travel to the D-Day anniversary commemorations in Normandy.(News)(Brief Article)
- A rare portrait of Henry VIII dating from the early 1530s has been revealed beneath an 18th-century painting of the Tudor monarch.(News)(Brief Article)
- History and the Media.(Book Review)
by Snowman, Daniel - Crisis in the classroom: David Nicholls calls for curriculum reform so that the past may have a future in England.(Today's History)
by Nicholls, David - Crimea in Finland: Her Majesty's Ambassador to Finland, Matthew Kirk, describes the impact of the Crimean War on that country and how it is being commemorated.(Frontline)
by Kirk, Matthew - Professor Olwen Hufton, historian of the 18th century and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College.(News)(Brief Article)
- Erratum.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
- What if ... Philip II had gone to the Netherlands? Geoffrey Parker considers the far-reaching consequences of a sudden change of plan by the king of Spain in 1567.
by Parker, Geoffrey - Newly published KGB and Stasi files have indicated that Peter the Great's Amber Room may have been destroyed by the Red Army.(News)(Brief Article)
- Over 20,000 pages of transcripts of telephone calls made by Henry Kissinger have been released by the US National Archives.(News)(Brief Article)
- Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England.(Book Review)
by Walsham, Alexandra - An officer on the Western Front: Anthony Fletcher reads his grandfather's correspondence from the Western Front to see how he maintained morale and developed his leadership.
by Fletcher, Anthony - The 1980s and the age of Reagan: Glen Jeansonne sees the former president as a mirror of his age.(Cross Current)
by Jeansonne, Glen - The heart of Louis XVII, the son of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI who died in prison in 1795, has been laid to test in the crypt of Saint-Denis Basilica.(News)(Brief Article)
- The 2003 Wolfson History prizes, made annually to encourage standards of excellence in the writing of history for the general public, have been awarded to Diarmaid MacCulloch.(News)(Brief Article)
- Bridge that gap.(Frontline)
by Furtado, Peter - Coming to terms with the past: India: Latha Menon deplores the effects of religious extremism on Indian society and the writing of history.(Today's History)
by Menon, Latha - Round and about: August 2004.(Frontline)(Calendar)
- Alberta Martin, the last known widow of a veteran from the American Civil War, has died in Alabama at the age of 97.(News)(Brief Article)
- Other August anniversaries.(Months Past)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
- Entertaining the Nation: a Social History of British Television.(Book Review)
by Chapman, James - Time and tithes: Patricia Wright revisits the career of a 14th-century abbot who ruthlessly protected the interests of his abbey and who built a remarkable celestial clock.
by Wright, Patricia