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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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  • Historical Association Conference 2025 in Liverpool

    10th January 2025

    See the full conference programme Book your place now Can you hear the music or see the birds (Liver ones of course)? Then we must be in Liverpool – or at least we will be in May 2025 for the HA conference. We have brought together lots of specialist CPD...

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  • Women’s History Month 2025

    28th February 2025

    March is Women’s History Month, so it’s time to pull out some of the great women of history. Only that is just a fragment of a not very representative picture – not least because many of the great women have already been written out of the popular narratives of history;...

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  • Poland and Lithuania: new podcasts

    28th February 2025

    The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was once the largest political partnership of Europe. When Poland and Lithuania came together in the 14th century they became key to the politics and trade of goods and ideas across Europe and with Asia. The Commonwealth’s cultural, linguistic and economic influence ranged across Central and Eastern Europe...

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  • British Science Week 2025

    28th February 2025

    STEM vs. Humanities has often been the battle played out in academic environments – which is a shame because both historically and culturally the two need each other. Therefore, to mark British Science Week we are reminding people of the incredible journey(s) that science has taken over hundreds of years to...

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  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

    20th February 2025

    Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades.  Why...

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  • The Historian 164: Out now

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  • LGBTQ+ History Month

    3rd February 2025

    It is an ever-changing world and while some are celebrating the rainbow of LGBTQ+ others are simultaneously trying to wash it away. Here at the HA we are happy to be a champion of LGBTQ+ history. We are committed to a broad and inclusive understanding of history and are pleased...

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  • Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

    21st January 2025

    The religious wars of the Crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores...

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  • Recorded webinar series: The history that Shakespeare gave us

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