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Articles in January 2007 issue of History Today

• The man of many parts: Martin Evans talks to historian, biographer and novelist Peter Ackroyd.(POINT OF DEPARTURE)(Interview)
  by Evans, Martin
• The panther at Agadir: The Agadir Crisis of 1911 was one of a number of incidents that raised international tensions in the years before 1914. Nigel Falls describes the European powers' interests in Morocco and their response to the crisis.
• Catch a Crabb.(History in the Media)(documents about the disappearance of Lionel Crabb, a royal Navy diver)(Brief article)
• Against the Draft Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War.(Book review)
  by Robbins, Keith
• Wolseley's journal.(Letter to the editor)
  by Harvie, Ian
• Germ warfare: Robert Bud says we should remember the Asian flu epidemic of 1957 as a turning point in the history of antibiotics.(CROSS CURRENT)
  by Bud, Robert
• Museum joins eBay.(History in the Media)(British Museum)(Brief article)
• Companion to Women's Historical Writing.(Book review)
  by Purvis, June
• Cross purpose.(Letter to the editor)
  by Williams, Keith; Kennedy, Susan
• Stoking the Fire: Jorg Friedrich's horrifying account of the Allied bombing raids caused a stir on its first publication in Germany. Now it has been translated into English, and York Membery has canvassed some leading British historians for their views.
  by Membery, York
• Liverpool's St Peter's?(History in the Media)(Sir Edwin Lutyens' model of proposed Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral to go on display)(Brief article)
• At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68.(Book review)
  by Ling, Peter
• Henry IV and personal piety: Debbi Codling looks at the beliefs and spiritual life of the man who usurped Richard II, an anointed king.(Biography)
  by Codling, Debbi
• Imperial measures.(Letter to the editor)
  by Hallows, John
• Hadrian's hall: Charles Freeman visits the eternal city, and finds the Castel Sant'Angelo, home to emperors and popes, to be the clue to unravelling its fabulously rich and complex history.(ANOTHER COUNTRY)
  by Freeman, Charles
• Red cross Nazi files.(History in the Media)(Red Cross' collection of documents from Nazi concentration camps)(Brief article)
• Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao.(Book review)
  by Mitter, Rana
• Great fall.(History in the Media)(Brief article)
• Round & about: January 2007.(FRONTLINE)
• January's anniversaries.(MONTHS PAST)
• Medieval fashion.(History in the Media)(University of Manchester to catalogue midieval clothing)(Brief article)
• 'Napoleon is Dead': following our article in November about Thomas Cochrane's plans for chemical warfare, Richard Dale, author of a new book on Cochrane, reveals how the maverick naval hero was disgraced over his association with a stock market scandal.(F
  by Dale, Richard
• The satirical eye.(Private Eye, satirical journal )
  by Bryant, Mark
• Tudor footprint.(History in the Media)(Tudor architecture had less impact on environment according to a survey)(Brief article)
• Box Populi: Charlotte Crow reports a recent debate between historians and programme makers on the state of history on the small screen, and a television success in that field.(FRONTLINE)(Discussion)
  by Crow, Charlotte
• The boys from Malagasey: in the first of a number of articles marking the bicentenary of the bill of March 1807 to abolish the slave trade, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones tells the remarkable story of the boys from Madagascar who were sent to England to be educate
  by Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie
• 3D war fleet.(History in the Media)(Scapa Flow Maritime Archaeology Project created 3D images of the German High Seas Fleet wrecks)(Brief article)
• The Court of Chivalry 1634-40: Richard Cust introduces a new website with details of a wide-ranging court of Charles I's reign.(FRONTLINE)
  by Cust, Richard
• Into Tibet: trade and illusions: Fraser Newham finds a connection running from the East India Company's first mission to Tibet to the completion of the Golmud to Lhasa railway by the Chinese today.(CROSS CURRENT)
  by Newham, Fraser
• Roman Sweden?(History in the Media)(archeological excavations point to interactions between Sweden and Rome)(Brief article)
• Death by firing squad.(FRONTLINE)(Edouard Manet's art exhibition)
  by Reiss, Ben
• King Philip of England: David Loades looks at the man who was king of England in his youth, and her bitter enemy thirty years later.
  by Loades, David
• King among presidents.(History in the Media)(construction of a monument in memory of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.)(Brief article)
• Emancipation from the past.(FRONTLINE)(bicentenary of the act for the abolition of the slave trade )
  by Furtado, Peter