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  • Your HA Virtual Branch

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    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....

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  • Tiananmen Square – 35 years on

    28th March 2024

    20th-century Chinese history is both terrifying and fascinating; it is often overlooked by many or simply seen through an East-West Cold War prism. This has sometimes led to people in the West viewing the Chinese people as unfathomable communist groups and without individuality. Therefore, when serious acts of rebellion against...

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  • Haiti: the history behind the headlines

    28th March 2024

    Haiti has been famous over the centuries for a number of reasons: most importantly for a slave rebellion that led to it winning independence from France in 1804. To this day the majority of the people in this Caribbean country are descended from those formally enslaved people. Sadly, in recent...

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  • Films: Joseph Stalin – Interpretations

    27th March 2024

    In our new film series running over the course of 2024, some of the leading historians working on Russia have contributed their expertise to build a clear understanding of the leaders of modern Russia and how they have shaped their country and the rest of the world through it. Each of the experts...

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  • The Miners’ strike – 40 years on

    5th March 2024

    If you lived during the early 1980s in the UK, it was frequently marked by news images of men on picket lines and others in dole queues. The Britain that had ‘never had it so good’ of the 1960s was in industrial decline only 20 years later. A central point...

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  • NATO and its newest member

    5th March 2024

    Next month the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – NATO – will be 75 years old, and at the end of February 2024 Sweden was given the full green light to join it.  NATO is a collective security organisation created shortly after the Second World War as one of the methods...

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  • Editorial opportunity with ‘History’, the journal of the Historical Association

    23rd February 2024

    The Historical Association are seeking to appoint a new editorial team for our internationally acclaimed journal History. The journal has had an excellent relationship with the School of History at the University of East Anglia for the past fourteen years and now the time has come for the journal to...

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  • Women's History Month 2024

    20th February 2024

    Women historically have been sidelined, marginalised, discriminated against and overlooked both in their daily lives, in the historical record and for their contributions across society. Women’s History Month is a way to highlight these historical failings and reevaluate how the past has been presented, to encourage the stories of women...

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  • The Historian 160: Out now!

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  • British Science Week 2024

    1st February 2024

    Next month we have British Science Week (8-17 March). This year's theme is ‘Time’ – so we thought we would give you some time to see why it is important. An awful lot of human history is the development of science and technology; it could also be argued that a...

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