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Articles in June 2005 issue of History Today

• Television viewers in France have voted former President Charles de Gaulle as the Greatest Frenchman of All Time.(News)(Brief Article)
• A collection of photographs depicting the 1912 Varsity Boat Race--the only occasion on which both boats have sunk--has been found in the Daily Mirror picture archives.(Brief Article)
• A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599.(Book Review)
  by Worsley, Lucy
• The New-York Times goes to war: Jonathan Marwil describes the eye-opening experience of three young Americans who went to report from the battlefields of the Italian War of Independence.
  by Marwil, Jonathan
• Norway and 1905: Stuart Burch considers the significance to Norway--both in terms of the past and the present--of the anniversary of 1905, when the country at last won its independence from Sweden.
  by Burch, Stuart
• Don't lose it again! Donald Zec has written the life of his brother, the wartime political cartoonist Philip Zec, to remind the world of his rich collection of cartoons that caught the mood of the British people at war. The following is an extract from th
  by Zec, Donald
• War and rape.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Laws, John
• London.(Round and About: June 2005)(Calendar)
• Other June anniversaries.(MONTHS PAST)(Brief Article)
• A segment of the granite obelisk stolen from Ethiopia by Mussolini's troops in the 1930s has been returned to Axum by the Italian authorities.(Brief Article)
• A collection of Victorian and early-twentieth century film footage has been discovered shortly before it was due to be destroyed by its owners.(Brief Article)
• The first English Heritage Blue Plaque to honour a footballer--Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman--has been unveiled at Haslemere Avenue in Hendon.(Brief Article)
• DNA analysis of hair from the royal mistress of Charles VII of France has indicated that she may have been murdered in 1450 by mercury poisoning.(Brief Article)
• The mutiny on the Potemkin: June 14th, 1905.(MONTHS PAST)(Battleship Potemkin)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• The end of the Roman empire: did it collapse or was it transformed? Bryan Ward-Perkins finds that archaeology offers unarguable evidence for an abrupt ending.
  by Ward-Perkins, Bryan
• War--official! Lawrence Freedman describes how he came to write the official history of the Falklands campaign and tells us what he learned from the experience.(Falkland Islands)
  by Freedman, Lawrence
• The National Trust has been granted a 'Stage One Pass' by the Heritage Lottery Fund in its bid for a grant of 20m [pounds sterling] to restore the estate of Tyntesfield.(News)(Brief Article)
• Archbishop Scrope and Thomas Mowbray executed: June 8th, 1405.(MONTHS PAST)(Henry IV and his opposition)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• Celebrity in 18th-century London: to coincide with a major new exhibition at Tate Britain on the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, Stella Tillyard asks what fame meant to individuals and the wider public of Georgian England, and considers how much this has in
  by Tillyard, Stella
• Relative observations.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Batten, Alan H.
• Telly dons?(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Dack, C.N.
• First draft of history.(FRONTLINE)
  by Furtado, Peter
• A bundle of wartime documents relating to the planned Nazi invasion of Britain may have identified Bridgnorth, a small market town in Shropshire, as Hitler's intended headquarters.(Brief Article)
• Rethinking the Armenian genocide: ninety years ago this summer saw the start of the Armenian genocide in Turkey. In his account of the complex historical background to these events Donald Bloxham focuses on the issue of great power involvement.
  by Bloxham, Donald
• His Excellency George Washington.(Book Review)
  by Grant, Susan-Mary
• Birth of Giuseppe Mazzini: June 22nd, 1805.(MONTHS PAST)(Italian nationalist and intellectual champion of the movement for Italian unity- Risorgimento)(Biography)
  by Cavendish, Richard
• For those in Peril: Jonathan Fenby asks why the greatest maritime tragedy ever to affect Britain was hushed up at the time and has remained a virtually untold story for sixty-five years.
  by Fenby, Jonathan
• The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial council in Israel has posthumously honoured a German army major for sheltering 1,000 Jews in Lithuania during the Second World War.(Brief Article)
• The reality behind the merry monarchy: Tim Harris explores the political spin, intolerance and repression that underlay Charles II's relaxed image, and which led him into a deep crisis in 1678-81 yet also enabled him to survive it.
  by Harris, Tim
• Churchill and Black Africa: Roland Quinault examines the career, speeches and writings of Churchill for evidence as to whether or not he was racist and patronizing to black peoples.(Winston Churchill)(Biography)
  by Quinault, Roland
• The remains of thirty-two soldiers, sailors, marines, women and children who died during the victory over Napoleon's fleet at the Battle of the Nile and the subsequent 1801 land campaign have been re-interred in Alexandria.(Brief Article)
• The world according to Liverpool: Charlotte Crow visits the new World Museum Liverpool, which has been newly refurbished in time for the city's big year, 2008, when it will wear the mantle of European City of Culture.
  by Crow, Charlotte
• The precise location of William Blake's grave has been pin-pointed again after forty-five years.(Brief Article)
• Elsewhere.(Round and About: June 2005)(Calendar)
• Kingdom of Heaven.(Movie Review)
  by Furtado, Peter
• Infamy and duplicity.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Lorenz, Jim
• Shogun: the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Ian Bottomley introduces an exhibition which reflects a special moment in Anglo-Japanese relations in the 17th century, echoed today by a unique loan arrangement between the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and the Nikko
  by Bottomley, Ian
• Scotland's English clan: Murray Watson looks at the historical roots of a phenomenon few commentators have noted: the sizeable English presence in Scotland.
  by Watson, Murray
• An Emancipation Election: (Louth, 1826).(COMMONS SENSE)