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Vintage Sunday Times Magazine September 12th 1999
HISTORY ISSUE
History has never been hotter. As Kansas drives Darwin from the curriculum, museums are turning into theme parks, and conspiracy theories are eating into the old values of patriotism and pride. This week we reassess our attitudes to the past. Who is the greatest figure of the millennium? Who has been forgotten? What is left for archeologists to discover? And how is posterity going to judge the way we live today?
9 Relative Values – The exiled son of Umberto II, Italy’s last king, and his son, the Prince of Venice
16 The missing link – Man has found a new ancestor. And he is monkeying with our ideas about evolution
26 Most wanted – Here are the top 10 holy grails of archeology – including the tomb of Nefertiti, and Columbus’s flagship
34 Memory boxes – The time capsule is an idea whose time has come. What will we unearth next year?
40 Hero gravity – The most influential human being of the past 1000 years, say the experts, was an English scientist and mathematician, born in Lincolnshire in 1642
46 Clever misses – Rescued from the footnotes of history: the forgotten women who changed the world
54 Ripping yarns – Are the tales of romantic of bygone days all true, or just a load of old embroidery?
67 Brain Power – Our historic puzzles page features Bookwise, Chess, Bridge and the Mephisto crossword
70 A Life in the Day of – Nicolas Kinloch, the head of history at a Cambridge comprehensive school
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