History Today Volume 57 May 2007 Poisoning the Body Politic Guernica's Horrors

Description: Tight Binding. Cover shows shelf wear.10% of the final sale price goes to American Cancer Society. Some topics in this issue George Steer and Guernica Paul Preston remembers the journalist and Basque sympathizer who broke the news of the bombing of Guernica on April 26th, 1937.The Henry III Fine Rolls David Carpenter introduces a major new resource for the understanding of 13th-century history. The Falklands X-FactorTwenty-five years ago, British forces won an unlikely victory to drive the Argentinians out of the Falklands. Brian James searches for the Task Force’s secret weapon. The Luther LegacyDerek Wilson looks at the great religious reformer and asks why his life and work have seemed so significant to so many diverse people for almost 500 years. Victorian MakeoverThe ‘big red books’ of the Victoria County History are being transformed by an injection of £3.5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, says John Beckett. Pipes and DrumsR.S. Taylor Stoermer takes a transatlantic perspective on the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. Richard, Earl of Cornwall crowned King of the RomansRichard Cavendish recalls May 17th, 1257. Losing the Plot: The Trial of Alice WheeldonJohn Jackson exhumes the extraordinary case of a middle-aged woman from Derby convicted of plotting to murder the Prime Minister. Indian Voices from the 1857 RebellionThe Indian Mutiny and Rebellion, which broke out 150 years ago this month, was the greatest revolt against British imperialism of its century. Joseph Coohill uncovers some Indian accounts of what happened and why. Garden of SwedenPatricia Cleveland-Peck goes on the trail of the scientist Linnaeus, whose tercentenary this year is being marked in Sweden at a variety of locations associated with the great man.

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