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Articles in May 2005 issue of History Today

• Freedom not empire.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Toyne, D.R.
• The Price of Victory.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Tanner, J.
• General history.(Bibliography)
• The making of a 'terrorist': Mihir Bose investigates the case of Subhas Chandra Bose in Bengal in 1924 to show what can happen when a government is able to lock people up on the suspicion of terrorism.
  by Bose, Mihir
• Battle of St Albans, 1455: Anthony Pollard, on the 550th anniversary of the battle of St Albans, describes what happened, and asks whether the battle should rightly be seen as the launch of the Wars of the Roses.
  by Pollard, Anthony
• Russia 1905: Beryl Williams marks the centenary of the revolutionary year 1905, and discusses the impact of the massacre outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and the complex events throughout Russia that preceded and followed Bloody Sunday.
  by Williams, Beryl
• The Three Richards Richard I, Richard II and Richard III.(Book Review)
  by Boyle, David
• Memory, History, Forgetting.(Book Review)
  by Evans, Martin
• Vote for the past.(FRONTLINE)(School curricula does not offer enough knowledge of the basic events of British history)
  by Furtado, Peter
• A project to discover more about the working conditions of ancient techniques begins in May.(News)(Brief Article)
• General theory.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Bennett, Paul
• The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon.(Book Review)
  by Mason, John
• Paperback choice: Robert Pearce looks at a selection of the season's titles newly out in paperback.(Book Review)
  by Pearce, Robert
• Living with loss dealing with shame: Neil Gregor looks at Germany and the legacies of war.
  by Gregor, Neil
• 250,000 trees are to be planted to mark the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar.(Trafalgar Woods Project)(Brief Article)
• A set of 22 photographs published in Picture Post in the 1940s have returned to a local museum in South London.(Brief Article)
• Blenheim Palace is attempting to trace 400 boys evacuated there during the Second World War.(Brief Article)
• The sea speaks Arabic: Umej Bhatia discusses Muslim memories of the Crusades and their resonances in Middle Eastern politics today.
  by Bhatia, Umej
• The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages.(Book Review)
  by Saul, Nigel
• The Second World War.(Book Review)
• The eighteenth century.(Book Review)
• What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany: An Oral History.(Book Review)
  by Culbert, David
• The postwar world.(Book Review)
• Tomorrow's History: Made in the North East.(MONTHS PAST)(Public participation in research of local history, North Eastern counties of England)
  by Pointer, Anne
• 'You and I will eat grass ...': as the rest of Britain gears up for the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day on May 8th, Peter Tabb describes the last moments of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, where the end of the War came twenty-four hours later
  by Tabb, Peter
• Soyer memorial.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Mellersh, Nicolas
• Nelson and Napoleon.(Book Review)
• Scientists have suggested that the young pharaoh Tutankhamun could have died from complications arising from a leg wound.(Brief Article)
• The medieval world.(Book Review)
• The nineteenth century.(Book Review)
• Waterloo Napoleon's Last Gamble.(Book Review)
  by Latimer, Jon
• Cromwell and the conquest of Jamaica: James Robertson investigates the Lord Protector's ambitious plans for war with Spain in the Caribbean.(Oliver Cromwell)
  by Robertson, James (Presbyterian leader)
• The Royal Academy of Music has begun a campaign to save a rare Stradivari violin for the nation.(Viotti Stradivari)(Brief Article)
• Brown is best: Jamie Oliver is the latest in a long line of food reformers. John Burnett looks at the campaign of the Reform Bread League to improve the nation's loaf.
  by Burnett, John
• More than story.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Fisher, Trevor
• Archaeology and the ancient world.(Books)(Book Review)
• The British Seaborne Empire.(Book Review)
  by MacKenzie, John
• Witch Craze Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany.(Book Review)
  by Maxwell-Stuart, P.G.
• The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.(Book Review)
• Particular friends: Guy de la Bedoyere, perhaps better known for his work on Roman Britain, pursues the life of John Evelyn, and his correspondence with Samuel Pepys.(POINT OF DEPARTURE)
  by de la Bedoyere, Guy
• Garrison Church, Potsdam: Kevin Kennedy highlights a controversial project to rebuild a one-time Prussian 'national monument'.
  by Kennedy, Kevin
• England's major local history research centre has been boosted with a grant of 3 million [pounds sterling] from the Heritage Lottery Fund.(Brief Article)
• Oop for t' coop: sporting identity in Victorian Britain: as the climax of the football season approaches, Mike Huggins investigates the origins of Britain's morass of sporting rivalries.
  by Huggins, Mike
• Round and about: May 2005.(FRONTLINE)(Calendar)
• The 1871 census for England and Wales has gone online.(Brief Article)
• Israel's new $56 million Holocaust Museum has been inaugurated at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.(News)(Brief Article)
• Friend or Foe An Anglo-Saxon History of France.(Book Review)
  by Richardson, Glen
• Selling socialism: marketing the early Labour Party: party strategists are no new phenomenon, Dominic Wring says; the Labour Party has always been concerned with marketing its brand image.
  by Wring, Dominic
• Mali's history at risk: Sarah Searight highlights the problem of pillaging for those trying to piece together Mali's rich heritage.
  by Searight, Sarah
• Alexandria below the waves: Russell Chamberlin describes the revelations of a recent conference on the archaeology of Cleopatra's Alexandria.
  by Chamberlin, Russell
• The early twentieth century.(Book Review)
• John Chester alias Wryxworth (fl. 1440s): David Grummitt introduces one of the least known Members of Parliament to have been covered in this series, but a man whose role as herald made him an important figure in mid-15th century England.(Biography)
  by Grummitt, David
• Abdication of the emperor Diocletian: May 1st, 305.(MONTHS PAST)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Dine team: Andy Lynes announces a new venture by the renowned chef Heston Blumenthal and a team of historians based at Hampton Court Palace who specialise in Tudor cookery.
  by Lynes, Andy
• The Warsaw Pact is signed: May 14th, 1955.(MONTHS PAST)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The first phase of the excavation of the Medici tombs from the crypt of San Lorenzo in Florence has uncovered new discoveries about the dynasty.(Brief Article)