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  • Gaming the medieval past

      Historian article
    Matthew Bennett and Ryan Lavelle explore how the devising, playing and discussion of war games can contribute to historical understanding. Games as tools for learning are engaging for teachers and students alike. Whether computer-driven, board games, miniatures, role-play or re-enactment, they all provide scenarios within which learners can use a...
    Gaming the medieval past

  • Film: The Making of Early England 500-1066

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    In this Virtual Branch lecture Michael Wood returns to his popular territory of Early England 500-1066 using the lives of specific stories and individuals to cast light on the period. This lecture was recorded on the 9 July 2020 as part of the HA Virtual Branch and is available to all...
    Film: The Making of Early England 500-1066

  • Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England

      Article
    Michael Wood opened the summer lecture series for the HA virtual Branch on the Making of Early England. In it he introduced key characters and texts that help to establish the cultural past of that time and also reveal to us what we know of it. These people included overlooked...
    Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England

  • Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery

      Historian article
    Michael Crumplin traces developments in surgery that can be directly attributed to changes in the conduct of war. Little doubt exists that war accelerates and innovates medical care. Today, our armed services can rely upon sound medical treatment if they are sick or wounded, with survival rates of above 90%. This...
    Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 16

      Branch Publication
    3 Editorial 4 Alexander, a Great Drinker? - Stephen Harrison 6 Beer Ten Pence a Pint - Ian Smith 8 Women, Drunkeness in Ancient Egypt - Caroline Graves Brown 10 Bible - Gwyneth Anthony 11 The Temperance Movement - Kenton Eastwood 12 One for the Road - Rod Ashley 15...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 16

  • The burial dilemma

      Historian article
    The recent attacks on Karl Marx’s grave in Highgate Cemetery have added impetus to the public debate about how we memorialise the dead and the public and private costs of mourning.
    The burial dilemma

  • Film: Writing history - The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin

      Writing history featuring Professor Jonathan Phillips
    In this first film from our new ‘meet the author’ series Professor Jonathan Phillips explores the memory of Sultan Saladin not just in the West but also in the Middle East, and how he researched this information in preparation for his new book. In this interview we ask questions about...
    Film: Writing history - The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin

  • The Waggoners’ Memorial

      Historian article
    Paula Kitching introduces a very remarkable First World War memorial to a specific group of Yorkshire workers.
    The Waggoners’ Memorial

  • Podcast: The doctor’s garden

      Annual Conference Podcast 2019
    The late Georgian British garden was a place of botanic and agricultural enquiry as much as a place of pleasure and leisure. This talk will highlight this use of gardens by medical practitioners. As a group of men who had access to botanical training and, for those at the top...
    Podcast: The doctor’s garden

  • Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade

  • The Yeomanry, 1913

      Historian article
    The Territorial Force, as formed in 1908, had 54 cavalry regiments organised in 14 brigades and known collectively as the Yeomanry. This meant that the Yeomanry consisted of 1,168 officers and 23,049 other ranks in September 1913 out of a Territorial Force which numbered 9,390 officers and 236,389 other ranks....
    The Yeomanry, 1913

  • Podcast: Life at the edge of the Roman Empire

      Annual Conference Podcast 2019
    Podcast: Life at the edge of the Roman Empire

  • Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer

      Historian article
    Colin Wheldon James introduces us to a 19th-century Welsh composer who deserves far greater recognition for his achievements in Wales as well as in England and America.
    Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer

  • Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence

      Historian article
    Kate Ash-Irisarri shows how three redoubtable women had significant roles in the difficult and dangerous period of the Scottish Wars of Independence.
    Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence

  • St Theobald of Provins and evidence of charcoal-burning

      Historian article
    Trevor James has been researching the ‘saintly landscape’ for over 40 years. Here is a glimpse of what he has identified.
    St Theobald of Provins and evidence of charcoal-burning

  • We will remember them: well, most of them

      Historian article
    Richard Broadhead provides a personal view on whether the mammoth task of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission can always be fulfilled, especially at a time of so many anniversaries.
    We will remember them: well, most of them

  • The Historian 130: 1916

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Mission to Kabul by Jules Stewart (Read article) 11 The President’s Column 12 Maintaining Morale: promoting the First World War, 1914-16 by John Beckett (Read article) 17 In the News… 18 British armoured cars on the Eastern Front in the First World War by...
    The Historian 130: 1916

  • The Establishment of English Protestantism 1558-1608

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Reformation which Queen Elizabeth and her ministers created was a series of acts of state, but if we consider it only at the level of official hopes and pronouncements, we will paint a picture of hopeless unreality. For the Reformation to success, the government needed to follow up its...
    The Establishment of English Protestantism 1558-1608

  • The German prisoner-of-war camp in Dorchester

      Historian article
    Dave Martin investigates why there is a war memorial for German soldiers, ‘buried in a foreign field’, in a Dorset churchyard.
    The German prisoner-of-war camp in Dorchester

  • A year in the life of a branch coordinator

      Historian article
    Jenni Hyde takes us through an exciting year with the Bolton Branch and provides some great ideas for other branch secretaries.
    A year in the life of a branch coordinator

  • From Bedfordshire to the Arctic Circle

      Historian article
    Travelling from the Western Front to fight former Allies in Russia is not the usual story of 1919 for a British ‘Tommy’.  Yet that was the story of some of those men still serving King and Country. On 9 January 1918 the supplement to The London Gazette, an official paper...
    From Bedfordshire to the Arctic Circle

  • The Falklands War anniversary

      1st April 2022
    This month (April 2022) is the 40th anniversary of the start of the Falklands Conflict. On 2 April 1982 an Argentinian Force of 3,000 men invaded the Falkland Islands taking the Islanders and the 80 Royal Marines stationed there by surprise. Despite pressure from the United Nations to withdraw the Argentinians attempted...
    The Falklands War anniversary

  • Rotha Lintorn-Orman: the making of a fascist leader

      Historian article
    Stephen M. Cullen draws out the influences and events that shaped one of Britain’s most significant fascist organisers and leaders.
    Rotha Lintorn-Orman: the making of a fascist leader

  • The Great Charter

      Classic Pamphlet
    The following introduction to and translation of Magna Carta was made for the use of my pupils and is here published in response to a suggestion that it may be of use to others. The Charter bristles with technical legal terms and its Latin is often ambiguous since the language...
    The Great Charter

  • The Second World War

      Classic Pamphlet
    On 5 September 1939 the German Führer, Adolf Hitler, paid a surprise visit to the corps which was in the forefront of his army's ferocious assault upon Poland. As they passed the remains of a smashed Polish artillery regiment, the corps commander, General Guderian, astonished Hitler by telling him that...
    The Second World War