In the November issue of History Today

In the November edition of History Today, Charles Freeman, in a remarkable piece of historical detective work, reveals the truth about the origins of the Shroud of Turin.

Also in this issue:

Matt Carr asks if General Sherman, the great American Civil War general, invented Total War with his March to the Sea in 1864;Christopher Harding challenges Allied stereotypes of Japanese society and culture during the Second World War;Amy Bowles examines a revolution in book-selling and reading in 17th century Holland and England;Daniel E. Thiery asks how much influence religion had on Henry V’s actions at the Siege of Rouen in 1418;Mira Bar-Hillel recalls childhood memories of one of Zionism’s most ruthless operators;Helen Castor examines a theory that Joan of Arc’s ‘visions’ were caused by a medical condition;Larry Hannant describes how Canada and India clashed over issues of race and immigration in the early days of the First World War;June Purvis wonders what a TV drama series of 40 years ago tells us about women’s history in the 1970s;And Richard Weight considers the future of the United Kingdom in the light of 19th-century liberalism.

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