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Articles in November 2004 issue of History Today

• Maggie's lucky strike: David Metz recalls the dark days of the miners' strike and considers how close the Tory government came to defeat.(Cross Current)
  by Metz, David
• Nelson, Trafalgar and the meaning of victory: Andrew Lambert explains why Nelson's life and death should never be forgotten.(Cover Story)
  by Lambert, Andrew
• Asia and Africa.(Bibliography)
• Tolerating ideas.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Shackleton, William
• The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia.(Book Review)
  by Pearce, Robert
• A Chinese historian has uncovered evidence showing Genghis Khan to have been a highly literate scholar of Taoist philosophy.(News)(Brief Article)
• The Americas.(Bibliography)
• Earthy delights: Denise Silvester-Carr follows the path through literature, history, art and horticulture that leads to the British Library's latest exhibition.(Frontline)
  by Silvester-Carr, Denise
• They were the reason why: Hugh Small challenges the accepted view of why the Light Brigade charged the Russian guns at Balaclava on October 25th, 1854.(Frontline)
  by Small, Hugh
• A Viking arm ring, made from 95 per cent gold and weighing 325 grams, has been discovered in York.(News)(Brief Article)
• Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion.(Book Review)
  by Pitts, Mike
• Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.(Lucrezia Borgia Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy)(Book Review)
  by Picard, Liza
• The British government censored news stories and issued propaganda broadcasts to cover up the threat of the V-2 rockets to wartime London, according to declassified documents recently released by the National Archives.(News)
• Plans for a visitor centre two miles away from Stonehenge have been submitted by English Heritage to reduce traffic around the ancient megaliths.(News)(Brief Article)
• Early plastic surgery.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Bamji, Andrew
• One of London's landmark churches, Hawksmoor's Baroque masterpiece, Christ Church Spitalfields, has reopened following a 10m [pounds sterling] restoration project lasting twenty-five years.(News)(Brief Article)
• Prisoners of conscience: Juliet Gardiner looks at what it meant to refuse to fight or lend support to the war effort in the Second World War, the different reasons people asserted this right, and how their actions were interpreted in wartime Britain.
  by Gardiner, Juliet
• The postwar world.(Bibliography)
• The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth Century England.(Book Review)
  by Dillon, Patrick
• Doing our duty.(Frontline)(historical events celebrations)
  by Furtado, Peter
• Obituaries.
• Yellow peril.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Dove, B.
• Divers have discovered the wreck of the famed HMS Victoria standing vertically upright on the seabed just off the coast of Lebanon.(News)(Brief Article)
• The early twentieth century.(Bibliography)
• www.oldbaileyonline.org.(Website of the Month)
• The new $219m US National Museum of the American Indian has opened in Washington DC.(News)(Brief Article)
• The contending kingdoms of France and England 1066-1904: Glenn Richardson looks at almost nine hundred years of enmity, jealousy and mutual fascination, a hundred years after the Entente Cordiale.
  by Richardson, Glenn
• The Prince Rupert of Toryism.(Commons Sense)(Biography)
• Documents from a company believed to have supplied Queen Victoria with her underwear are to be handed over to Newtown council, Powys.(News)(Brief Article)
• Embedded empire.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Sherwood, Marika
• Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape.(Book Review)
  by Milner-Gulland, Robin
• 1914-1918: the History of the First World War.(Book Review)
  by Brown, Malcolm
• Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture.(Book Review)
  by Barnes, Stephen
• Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.(Bibliography)
• Death of Isabella the Catholic: November 24th, 1504.(Months past: this month in history)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Studying absurdity.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Jahn, Edward
• Analysis of the bones of a seaman who died while on a military expedition for Oliver Cromwell has revealed insights into 17th-century ship life.(News)(Brief Article)
• Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry the Nazis, and the Road to World War II. (Book Review)
  by Higgins, Patrick
• Women's history today: June Purvis looks back at thirty years of women's history in Britain.(Today's History)
  by Purvis, June
• Blood and Roses.(Book Review)
  by Pollard, A.J.
• The Second World War.(Bibliography)
• Insurrection in Algeria: November 1st, 1954.(Months past: this month in history)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Fascists.(Book Review)
  by Griffin, Roger
• School for scoundrels: Andrew Cook describes how a chance encounter with Houdini had a profound impact on the methods of Britain's leading First World War spymaster.(Frontline)
  by Cook, Andrew
• Medieval bridges: David Harrison considers one of the greatest but most underrated achievements of the medieval world: the hundreds of bridges that defined the British communication system up to the 19th century.
  by Harrison, David
• Read my lips: have politicians always been seen as liars? Mark Knights finds political spin at work in the early party politics of Queen Anne's England.(Cross Current)
  by Knights, Mark
• The Corporation of London has awarded a substantial restoration grant to St Paul's Cathedral.(News)(Brief Article)
• Truth is no stranger to fiction: historical novelist Linda Proud explains why she thinks fiction can be as truthful as 'fact'.(Today's History)
  by Proud, Linda
• The nineteenth century: Britain and Europe.
• The first Viking burial site in England has been uncovered in Cumbria.(News)(Brief Article)
• Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China.(Book Review)
  by Mitter, Rana
• General history.(Bibliography)
• Other November anniversaries.(Months past: this month in history)(Illustration)
• Theodore Roosevelt re-elected President of the United States: November 8th, 1904.(Months past: this month in history)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Paperback choice: Robert Pearce looks at a selection of the season's titles newly out in paperback.(Book Review)
  by Pearce, Robert
• Crisis, what crisis?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Fisher, Trevor
• Round and about: November 2004.(Frontline)(Calendar)
• Palmerston: "The People's Darling" (Book Review)
  by Taylor, Miles
• Taylor made: Giles Radice, for many years Labour MP for Durham and chronicler of the politics of his party, describes how the past became important to him.(Point Of Departure)
  by Radice, Giles
• Britain and Ireland.(Bibliography)
• The medieval world.(books about medieval history)(Bibliography)
• Temple Bar comes home: John Lucas rejoices at the return of Christopher Wren's Temple Bar to London after more than 120 years of 'exile' in Hertfordshire.(Frontline)
  by Lucas, John
• A new investigation by an Italian state television documentary team into the assassination of Mussolini has revealed evidence suggesting that the dictator may have been murdered by a two-man team led by a British secret agent on Churchill's orders.(News)(
• Two prints regarded as 'politically dangerous' in 1794 have been rediscovered and acquired by the National Maritime Museum.(News)
• The learning curve: the 46th North Midland Division on the Western Front: Andrew Syk investigates whether one British army division truly comprised 'lions led by donkeys', or whether its officers learned the lessons of their early mistakes.
  by Syk, Andrew
• Archaeology and the Ancient World.