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Articles in July 2006 issue of History Today

• 'Sommewhere in France': in welcoming a new publication of the collected numbers of The Wipers Times, Malcolm Brown wonders why we find the idea of humour in the trenches so shocking.
  by Brown, Malcolm
• A capital idea.(renovation of Museum of London )(Brief article)
• Little short of a miracle.(Great War)
  by Wells, Brigid
• Great Endeavours.(18th-century ship found in Rhode Island coast)(Brief article)
• The Somme battlefield: Peter Furtado introduces one of the most traumatic places in British military history.
  by Furtado, Peter
• Rome's oldest catacombs.(Brief article)
• July's anniversaries.(fall of Roman Empire)
• Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970.(Absent Minds Intellectuals)(Book review)
  by Bevir, Mark
• Historians and the public: David Bates asks what professional historians can do to satisfy the popular craving for history.(Institute of Historical Research)
  by Bates, David
• The bombing of the King David Hotel: James Barker considers the role of terrorism in the establishment of Israel, on the 60th anniversary of the attack on the British military headquarters in Jerusalem.
  by Barker, James
• High society humour.(Vanity Fair)(Company overview)
• England and the octopus: Tristram Hunt looks at the development of conservation and environment movements in the twentieth century, and particularly at the achievements of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, which celebrates its 80th anniver
  by Hunt, Tristram
• William Blackstone and the historians: Wilfrid Prest unravels myths perpetrated by historians about the great 18th-century lawyer.
  by Prest, Wilfrid
• Cold War past.(secrets of nuclear history displayed for public )(Brief article)