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Articles in April 2006 issue of History Today

• Lasting memorial.(War Memorials Trust gets English Heritage and the Wolfson Foundation grants)(Brief article)
• Littlebury: A Parish History.(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Furtado, Peter
• Brunel anniversary.(stamps go on sale)(Brief article)
• 'Soldiers are we': the Easter Rising took place in Dublin ninety years ago this month. Charles Townshend has read hundreds of 'witness statements' from the men and women who took part, made available to the public in 2003 after decades in a government vau
• Round and about: April 2006.(paintings exhibition)
• Imperial City Rome, Romans and Napoleon, 1796-1815.(Book review)
  by Black, Jeremy
• First draft of history?
• Some talk of Alexander: Frederic Raphael explains how the isles of Greece, and the rest of the classical world, caught his imagination.(POINT OF DEPARTURE)
  by Raphael, Frederic
• Detecting 'death disguised': Krista Kesselring describes how coroners in the early modern period tried to establish the cause of death in disputed cases.
  by Kesselring, Krista
• Candid culture: Juliet Gardiner reviews the current exhibition at Tote Liverpool that celebrates the British flair for documentary film-making.(Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain Exhibition)(Book review)
  by Gardiner, Juliet
• New Valley of the Kings find.(KV63 found)(Brief article)
• April's anniversaries.(MONTHS PAST)
• History and histrionics.(FRONTLINE)
  by Furtado, Peter
• Reel Britannia: Linda Kaye describes a project to make accessible to the public the history of a series of 'cinemagazines' made by the Government in the 1950s and 60s to promote Britain overseas.(FRONTLINE)
  by Kaye, Linda
• New world slaves.(graves in Mexico speak of slaves)(Brief article)
• The art of lese majeste.(BEHIND THE LINES)
• Caroline Mathilde.(Letter to the editor)
  by Winch, T.B.C.
• In the meantime ...(FRONTLINE)(Brief article)
• Titanic 'finders-keepers'.(RMS Titanic Inc.'s case)(Brief article)
• England on Edge Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642.(Book review)
  by Coward, Barry
• Thomas Young: the man who knew everything: Andrew Robinson marvels at the brain power and breadth of knowledge of the 18th-century polymath Thomas Young. He examines his relationship with his contemporaries, particularly with the French Egyptologist Champ
  by Robinson, Andrew
• Loose change.(Letter to the editor)
  by Macy, Nicholas; Hodges, Richard
• Hooke's book; Michael Hunter, an authority on the natural philosopher Robert Hooke, describes his excitement at the recent discovery of an unknown manuscript in Hooke's hand. He explains its significance and why every effort should be made to keep it in B
  by Hunter, Michael
• Inca dispute.(Peru demands return of treasures from the Incan site )(Brief article)
• Bikinis and breastplates: Richard Vinen ponders the political significance of two of France's most potent female icons and finds there is more to them than meets the eye.(CROSS CURRENT)
  by Vinen, Richard
• Timeline.
• Civil War health.(soldiers' health aspects)(Brief article)
• How the West was lost: Chris Smallbone explains the effect of United States expansion on the native Americans of the Great Plains in the mid-19th century.
  by Smallbone, Chris
• Rulers and victims: the Russians in the Soviet Union: Geoffrey Hosking looks at the place of Russia within the Soviet Union, a position fraught with paradoxes that still resonate today.
  by Hosking, Geoffrey
• Recycled rubbish.(Letter to the editor)
  by Ward, L.S.
• Nazi biological warfare.(Brief article)
• The dirty a-word: Peter Neville says that Bush and Blair failed to draw the proper lessons from Munich 1938 when they raised the spectre of Chamberlain and appeasement to justify their war against Saddam.(CROSS CURRENT)
  by Neville, Peter
• Cesca: a young nationalist in the Easter Rising: Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising ninety years ago this month, to explore her youthful patriotism and
  by Fletcher, Anthony
• The Gambia: Graham Gendall Norton introduces an accessible but exotic land which has long been a cultural crossroads.(ANOTHER COUNTRY)(Country overview)
  by Gendall, Graham
• Act of courage.(Letter to the editor)
  by Kent, Bruce
• Joan of Arc tests.(Brief article)
• Anglo-Saxon gold coin.(History in the Media)(Brief article)
• The Spectacle of Flight Aviation, and the Western Imagination 1920-1950.(Book review)
  by Rieger, Bernhard
• History study down.(Brief article)
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945.(Book review)
  by Robbins, Keith