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Articles in October 2004 issue of History Today
- A 15th-century grammar school in Birmingham has been chosen as the winner of the BBC's second Restoration series.(News)(Brief Article)
- Tom Wintringham: revolutionary patriot: Hugh Purcell tells the story of the man who inspired the Home Guard, taught it guerrilla warfare and paid a price for his political beliefs.(Critical Essay)
by Purcell, Hugh - Police files.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Rankin, Graham - Marine archaeologists have recovered a number of artefacts left on the seabed when the hull of the Mary Rose was lifted in 1982.(News)(Brief Article)
- Archaeologists have discovered evidence of industrial innovation predating the traditional beginning of the Industrial Revolution at a World Heritage Site in Shropshire.(News)(Brief Article)
- Cola di Rienzo murdered: October 8th, 1354.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - Scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California are adapting their work on subatomic particles to help archivists save 19th-century audio recordings.(News)(Brief Article)
- The preserved bodies of three Austrian soldiers killed in the First World War, still clad in their tattered uniforms, have been discovered at the foot of an Italian glacier.(News)(Brief Article)
- Animal biographies? Dee Robinson drafts short 'lives' of four famous animals.
by Robinson, Dee - Death of the Emperor Claudius: October 13th, AD 54.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - Digging ditched.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Henson, Don - Scope to speak for themselves: Catherine Allen describes a new oral history project that aims to create an archive charting the experiences of disabled people throughout the twentieth century.(Frontline)(Critical Essay)
by Allen, Catherine - Death of King Stephen: October 25th, 1154.(Months Past)
by Cavendish, Richard - Catherine de Medici: a Biography.(Book Review)
by Richardson, Glenn - Rediscovering Nelson: Colin White surveys current scholarship on the national hero and announces an autumn lecture series devoted to him.(Frontline)(Critical Essay)
by White, Colin - A computer model of the Cutty Sark tea clipper is to be created by the University of Greenwich to help determine the best way to restore the Victorian tea clipper without it collapsing.(News)(Brief Article)
- More than a cradle.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
by Godfrey, C.M. - Victorian values.(Frontline)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
by Furtado, Peter - The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.(Book Review)
by Harvey, A.D. - An archaeologist who has found a large cave near Jerusalem complete with a baptism pool, carvings and pottery believes it could be linked to John the Baptist.(News)(Brief Article)
- From the cracks of history: Philip Carter celebrates the lives reclaimed by the newly-published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.(Cross Current)(Critical Essay)
by Carter, Philip - John Locke icon of liberty: Mark Goldie traces the ways in which people across the political spectrum have used and abused the ideas of the philosopher who died 300 years ago this month.(Critical Essay)
by Goldie, Mark - Ghostly speaker: Richard Baynard, Speaker of the Commons of December, 1421.(Common Sense)
- What did they know of Empire? Bernard Porter argues that, through most of the nineteenth century, most Britons knew little and cared less about the spread of the Empire.(Cover Story)
by Porter, Bernard - A collection of 51 watercolour paintings depicting members of the English working class at the end of the Regency period has been found at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.(News)
- Animal lives: Erica Fudge asks if, and how, a biography of an animal might be written.(Critical Essay)
by Fudge, Erica - Two Roman mosaic floors have been discovered by archaeologists during the building of a new walkway at Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight.(News)
- Niall Ferguson: Daniel Snowman profiles the historian of War, Finance, Empire and 'Virtual' History.(Today's History)(Critical Essay)
by Snowman, Daniel - Naval grazing in Nelson's fleet: Janet MacDonald looks at the surprisingly good rations that kept the Jack-Tars jolly.(Frontline)(Excerpt)
by MacDonald, Janet - A temporary export bar has been put on the recently discovered Macclesfield Psalter, a 14th-century English illuminated manuscript.(News)(Brief Article)
- Great escapes: a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum unlocks the myths and realities behind historical bids for freedom.(Frontline)(Brief Article)
- Occidentalism: Alastair Bonnett discusses Eastern ideas of the West, and argues they form part of a non-Western debate on modernity and society.
by Bonnett, Alastair - Round and about: October 2004.(Frontline)(Calendar)
- English Heritage has purchased at auction rare photographs of the Crystal Palace, believed to date from the late 1850s or early 1860s.(News)(Brief Article)
- The great British pension: Steven King argues that government policy on pensions is returning to the principles and practice of the Old Poor Law.(Cross Current)
by King, Steven - The tangled web: America, France and Indochina 1947-50: Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina.
by Abouzahr, Sami - Other October anniversaries.(Months Past)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
- Away from Colditz: S.P. MacKenzie asks why Colditz, the prisoner-of-war camp that saw escape attempts by 316 men in the Second World War, has captured a particular place in the historical memory.(Frontline)
by MacKenzie, S.P.