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  • Trewarthenick, Cornwall

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    Christine North provides a fascinating insight into the history of Trewarthenick mansion and the resident Gregor family. Trewarthenick, the home of the Gregor family for nearly 400 years, lies on the north bank of the river Fal, in the tiny parish of Cornelly, near what used to be the rotten...
    Trewarthenick, Cornwall
  • The Historian 70: Myth and Reality: A necessary marriage at 12th Century Glastonbury

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    Featured articles: 4 Novelty and Amusement? Visiting the Georgian Country House - Richard Wilson (Read Article) 10 The Tower and The Victorians: Politics and Leisure - Peter Hammond (Read Article) 15 The Duke of Wellington and the little man on the cob - Patrick Abbott (Read Article) 18 Myth and...
    The Historian 70: Myth and Reality: A necessary marriage at 12th Century Glastonbury
  • The Historian 36

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    Featured articles: 3 Feature: Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier, Margaret Walsh 10 Update: Medieval Women, Patricia Skinner 13 Anniversary: Tunnel Under the Thames, R.A. Buchanan 18 Project: Interviews with Historians, Pat Thane
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  • The Historian 68: Eighteenth Century Britain and its Empire

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    Featured articles: 4 The Wonderful Land of Oz - Douglas Horlock  12 Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire - P. J. Marshall (Read Article) 18 ‘The Generous Turk’: Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes - Hugh Dunthorne (Read Article) 23 ‘The Mouth Of Hell’: Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, c.1660-c.1800 - Colin Haydon (Read Article)
    The Historian 68: Eighteenth Century Britain and its Empire
  • The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement

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    Featured articles: 4 William Morris, art and the rise of the British Labour movement - Chris Wrigley (Read Article) 11 Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb - Z.A.B. Zeman (Read Article) 18 Bombing and the air war on the Italian Front 1915-1918 - A.D. Harvey (Read Article) 22 The reign of Edward VI:...
    The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement
  • The Historian 40

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    3 Feature: China's Communist Revolution, Michael Dillon 10 Update: The Nobility in Early Modern Europe, H.M. Scott 13 Record Linkage: New Dictionary of National Biography, Colin Matthew 16 Anniversary: William Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode, H.T. Dickinson 18 Biography: Prince Arthur and the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir 1882, Noble Frankland 22...
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  • The Historian 63: Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?

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    Featured articles: 4 Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War? - Professor The Earl Russell (Conrad Russell) (Read article) 10 What's new about 'New Labour'? - Andrew Thorpe (Read article) 16 1939 after sixty years - Patrick Finney (Read article) 22 Louis, John and William: The 'Dame Europa'...
    The Historian 63: Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?
  • The Historian 37

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    Featured articles: 3 Feature: Byron, Romanticism and the Independence of Greece, Julian Robinson  9 Update: Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1500-1707, Michael Lynch 12 Education Forum: Museum Education and the National Currculum, Maureen Lochrie
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  • The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War

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    Featured articles: 4 Vichy France and the Jews - Julian Jackson (Read article) 10 The Press and the Public during the Boer War - Jacqueline Beaumont Hughes (Read article) 16 Cambridge - Elisabeth Leedham-Green (Read article) 21 The Vikings in Britain - Henry Loyn
    The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War
  • The Historian 60: The Knights Templars

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    Featured articles: 4 The Rise and Fall of The Knights Templars - Malcolm Barber (Read article) 10 The Resistible Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte - Malcolm Crook (Read article) 16 The Pilgrimage of Grace - Michael Bush (Read article) 21 The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899 (Read article)
    The Historian 60: The Knights Templars
  • The Historian 58: Photography in Korea

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    Featured articles: 2 Jawaharlal Nehru: the last viceroy? - Judtih M. Brown (Read article) 8 Travelling the 17th-century English Economy: a rediscovery of Celia Fiennes - Pam Sharpe (Read article) 12 War Plan Red: The American Plan for war with Britain - John Major (Read article) 15 Photography in Korea...
    The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
  • The Historian 33

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    3 Feature: The Ending of a Myth: The Fall of Singapore, 1942, Joseph Kennedy 9 Update: The Conservative Party and British Politics 1902-40, Stuart Ball 12 Education Forum: The Job of an Archives Education Officer, Mary Mills  28 Spotlight: Sheffield
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  • The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong

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    Featured articles: Handing back Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997 - Andrew Whitfield (Read article) Elizabeth I - Susan Doran Western Dress and Ambivelence in the South Pacific - Michael Sturma (Read article) The Middle East in WWII and the British Co-operation with the Zionist Agency - Nicholas Hammond Painted Advertisements...
    The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong
  • Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

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    Medieval ‘Signs and Marvels': insights into medieval ideas about nature and the cosmic order. Many aspects of life in the Middle Ages puzzle the modern reader but some are stranger than others. What can possibly explain an event reported from Orford Castle, in Suffolk? This is an amazing tale and...
    Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'
  • The Historian 53: Queen Victoria

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    Featured articles: Queen Victoria - Dorothy Thompson (Read article) The Era of Dictators Reconsidered - Kenneth Thomson (Read article) The Military Historian and the Western Front - Ian Beckett The Migration of Indians to Guiana and Surinam - Ananda Dulal Sakar (Read article) Open the attachment below to read the...
    The Historian 53: Queen Victoria
  • The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics

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    2 The birth of the modern Olympics - Michael Biddiss (Read article) 8 The insanity of Henry VI - Carole Rawcliffe (Read article) 13 Trewarthenick, Cornwall: the ancestral home of the Gregor family - Christine North (Read article) 16 Minority Rights and Wrongs in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century -...
    The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics
  • The Historian 29

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    3 Feature: The Gods of Roman Britain, David Shotter 9 Update: Slavery and the Plantation System in the British Caribbean: The example of Jamaica, Verene A. Shepherd 12 In Memoriam: Dr Esmond de Beer 
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  • The Historian 23

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    3 Feature: Women in the Two World Wars, Penny Summer 10 Update: Modern India; Imperialism and Nationalism 1880 1947, Judith M Brown 13 Record Linkage: Heraldry and the Historian, Adrian Ailes 20 Anniversary: 150 Years of Photography
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  • The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire

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    Napoleon III - only one article of this journal remains. Open the attachment below to read the article.
    The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire
  • The Historian 24

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    3 Feature: Napoleon and the French Revolution, Irvne Collins 10 Update: The Causes of the Second World War, Michael Dockrill 13 Education Forum: Time for Change at 'A' Level, John Fines 14 Museums: Working From Museums, Gail Durbin 18 Portfolio: Medieval Emperors and the English Kings, Dorothy Meade
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  • The Historian 21

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    3 Feature: Sick people, health and doctors in Georgian England - Roy Porter 7 Portfolio: The life and death of Colonel Blimp - Kevin Jefferys 10 Update: The French Revolution - Norman Hampson 24 Education Forum: Pushing for the past - Nicholas Reeves
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  • The Story of the African Queen

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    Where fact and fiction intercept: the story of The African Queen(s) by C.S. Forester When the Königin Luise was hull down over the horizon and the dhow was close in-shore the lieutenant left his post and went down to the jetty to meet his senior officer. The dhow ran briskly in,...
    The Story of the African Queen
  • A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester

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    The Tirah memorial stands in a corner of Borough Gardens, a Victorian park in Dorchester, county town of Dorset. It is a granite obelisk decorated with a motif of honeysuckle and laurel wreaths standing 4.5 metres high on a square granite plinth. This in turn stands upon a circular concrete...
    A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester
  • The Historian 13

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    3 Feature: Fiume 1919, John di Folco  6 Feature: Republicanism in Victorian Britain, Robert Woodall 10 Update: The Origins of the Cold War, John Young 14 Education Forum: Michael Biddiss, Alex Cowan
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  • The Historian 12

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    3 Feature: A Prisoner's Pursuits: the Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, Gordon R. Batho 10 Record Linkage: Sir Lewis Harcourt and the Foreign Office Telegrams July 1914, Keith Wilson 13 Update: English Politics and Society in the Eighteenth Century, Bill Speck 16 HUDG: Middle Age Spread, John Boume
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