Coming Up

The Historical Association is an active organisation with events happening up and down the UK. The local branches all have a lively lecture programme open to both members of the association and any general member of the public wishing to come along. Formal events for Teacher CPD, professional forums and conferences are also organised by and for the HA. We have programmes and activities such as debates and conferences for school children and students. Find out what’s coming up and what’s of interest to you by exploring our events section.

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  • HA Webinar: Sickness, death and the 19th-century British Post Office

    19th March 2025

    Historians often conflate the causes of death with the causes of ill health. The two are related, but not necessarily the same. Sickness was not always fatal, and therefore to understand its history we must look beyond the causes of death to the nature and causes of ill health. This...

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  • HA Webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era

    25th February 2025

    For European states in the early modern era the Ottoman empire represented a huge trading bloc, stretching at its height from Hungary in the west to Iran in the east, from Ukraine in the north to Egypt in the south, and along the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the...

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  • Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2025

    11th December 2024

    Free online lecture by Dr Antoine Burgard 3 February 2025, 5pm As Allied Forces began their advance further into Europe 80 years ago they began to uncover places of unimaginable horror. They had known about the Concentration Camps and the Labour Camps before the war but the discovery of how...

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