The HA Virtual Branch is a great way to keep your history up-to-date, whether you are working or relaxing, all from the comfort of your home. The Virtual Branch is free and open to everybody, and recordings of the talks are made available online after the event for HA members....

One of the HA’s aims is to bring you accessible and enjoyable history wherever you are based and whatever amount of time you have to dedicate to it. That's why we work to put together a regular programme of events with a variety of formats and delivery. You might prefer...

The Assassins and the Templars are two of history’s most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Violently opposed, they had vastly different reputations, followings, and ambitions. Yet they developed strikingly similar strategies―and their intertwined stories have,...

Historians use maps a lot - or at least they should. They help us to understand global relations, environmental and social change and they help to reveal how the world was understood and explored in the past. This webinar series is an opportunity to hear three world class academics explore...

A specialist in late-Imperial Russian society and ethnicities, including the Cossacks, Dr O’Rourke will explore society under the last three Tsars, examining Russification in the western Russian borderlands, Russian settler colonialism, the Caucasus and deportation, and current historiographical trends.

In confinement to shared community events - childbirth with its magic and its dangers is key to society. Some societies have celebrated it and others hidden it away. For many women it can be a defining moment in their lives both positive or negative. This discussion will be about Lucy...

Hag-ridden dreams, pacts with the devil, demonically-inspired music, diabolical skill, rumours of murder – the world of witches, magicians and demons still fascinated artists and writers after the end of the European witch persecutions in the seventeenth century. This paper discusses how myths and stories about the Italian composers and...