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Articles in June 2006 issue of History Today

• Round and about: June 2006.(Calendar)
• Paradise after hell: Rhiannon Looseley uncovers the forgotten history of the evacuation of over 100,000 French soldiers from Dunkirk to Britain in May 1940, and describes what happened to them on their brief sojourn across the Channel and return to France
  by Looseley, Rhiannon
• Kicked into touch.(forgotten history)
  by Furtado, Peter
• Tiger tiger: Susie Green finds in the fate of the last truly wild community of Bengal tigers a metaphor for humanity's treatment of the planet.
  by Green, Susie
• England loses the World Cup: in March 1966, a few months before the England football team won the World Cup, the FA lost it. Martin Atherton tells the full, often farcical, story of the theft and recovery of the Jules Rimet Trophy.(Football Association)
  by Trophy, Jules Rimet
• Revolution The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720.(The Glorious Revolution: 1688, Britain's Fight for Liberty)(Book review)
  by Beddard, Robert
• It's a wonderful world: we are all invited to select seven new wonders of the world. Mary Beard investigates the list of candidates and reflects on what makes a monument a myth.(new seven wonders to be selected)
  by Beard, Mary
• Half pint.(Letter to the editor)
  by Myers, Vic
• Coming to terms with the past: Soweto, June 16th 1976: Gary Baines explains that the ANC government has institutionalized memories of the Soweto uprising in its efforts to build a new national identity in South Africa.(African National Congress )
  by Baines, Gary
• Caliph Uthman Murdered: June 16th, 656.(Uthman ibn Affan)(Biography)
• Benefit of hindsight.(Letter to the editor)
  by Etheridge, William
• What did medieval schools do for us? Nicholas Orme returns to the classroom to find out how boys, and girls, were educated from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors; and finds that the foundations of our education system were laid during this period.
  by Orme, Nicholas
• The past of the future from the foreign to the undiscovered country: David Lowenthal argues that in recent years there has been a retreat from engagement with many aspects of the past. He suggests that, in turn, this points to an unwillingness to contend
  by Lowenthal, David
• Consuming Splendor Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
  by Berg, Maxine
• Berlin: Neil Taylor suggests that the starting point from which to explore the full and varied history of Berlin is the apparently empty space at its centre.
  by Taylor, Neil
• Wearing Propaganda Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain and the United States, 1931-1945.(Book review)
  by Gardiner, Juliet
• The Black Hole of Calcutta: June 20th, 1756.
• Clive's pet dies.(Aldabra tortoise gifted to Lord Robert Clive dies)(Brief article)
• A Royal Affair George III and his Troublesome Siblings.(Book review)
  by Black, Jeremy
• The floating world at war: cartoon historian Mark Bryant explores the visual satire emanating from both sides of the conflict between Russia and Japan in the first decade of the 20th century.
  by Bryant, Mark
• The Ara Pacis: romans have reacted passionately to the new presentation of one of the Eternal City's key historic monuments, Charlotte Crow explains.(Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Peace))
  by Crow, Charlotte
• Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.(Book review)
  by Linton, Marisa
• Marilyn Monroe Marries Arthur Miller: June 29th, 1956.
• To buy or not to buy ...(First Folio by William Shakespeare)(Brief article)
• Mr Guy's Hospital and the Caribbean: Jane Bowden-Dan explores medical links between the Caribbean and London that throw important light on the position of blacks in eighteenth-century British society.
  by Bowden-Dan, Jane
• New light on ancient Egypt: Helen Strudwick, Curator of the Egyptian galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, explains the new refurbishment at the museum and the opportunities it has afforded.
  by Strudwick, Helen
• La Vie en Bleu France and the French Since 1900.(Book review)
  by Evans, Martin
• The Preston front.(musicians dedicate the song to the lancastrian heroes of the Battle of the Alamo)(Brief article)
• From Kennedy's Cold War to the war on terror: Gareth Jenkins looks for continuities in American foreign policy from the 1960s to the 2000s.
  by Jenkins, Gareth
• Brunanburh reconsidered: Kevin Halloran puts forward a new suggestion for the location of one of the most disputed questions of Anglo-Saxon history: the site of Athelstan's great battle against Alba, Strathclyde and the Vikings.
  by Halloran, Kevin