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  • Magna Carta and the development of the British constitution

      Historian article
    Robert Blackburn explains why, 800 years on, Magna Carta still has relevance and meaning to us in Britain today. Magna Carta established the crucial idea that our rulers may not do whatever they like, but are subject to the law as agreed with the society over which they govern. In...
    Magna Carta and the development of the British constitution

  • The experience of Bilston in the cholera epidemic of 1831–32

      Historian article
    Alannah Tomkins introduces a well-chronicled early example of how a local community dealt with cholera. In September 1832 James Holmes, the governor of the workhouse at Bilston in Staffordshire wrote a letter to the salaried parish overseer of Uttoxeter. The initial impetus for the letter came from the two parishes’ shared interest...
    The experience of Bilston in the cholera epidemic of 1831–32

  • The Knights Templars

      Article
    Professor Malcolm Barber explores the rise and fall of the Knights Templars. "The master of the Temple was a good knight and stout-hearted, but he mistreated all other people as he was too overweening. He would not place any credence in the advice of the master of the Hospital, Brother...
    The Knights Templars

  • Why did the prosecution of witches cease in England?

      Pamphlet
    This lucid survey of the history of witch trials in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth century focuses on the question of ‘why did the formal prosecution of witches cease?' Accusations of witchcraft can be found throughout the nineteenth century yet the last conviction was in 1712. Clive Holmes explores...
    Why did the prosecution of witches cease in England?

  • The English Captivity of James I, King of Scots

      Article
    This booklet tells the story of James the first, with the events leading up to his capture and detailing the eighteen years spent in it. Balfour-Melville puts into writing the colourful, if not tragic, life of the capture and mere 13 year reign James.  Brought alive in words, a King...
    The English Captivity of James I, King of Scots

  • Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War

      Podcast
    Gary Sheffield, Professor of War studies, the University of Wolverhampton, is one of the UK's foremost historians on the First World War.  He is the author of numerous books and previously held posts at the University of Birmingham and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In April 2014 he spoke at an HA event for teachers...
    Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War

  • The Life & Significance of Alan Turing

      The History of Science
    In this podcast, Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester, discusses the life and significance of Alan Turing.
    The Life & Significance of Alan Turing

  • Podcast Series: Origins of the European Financial Markets

      Multipage Article
    In this podcast Dr Anne Murphy of the University of Hertfordshire looks at the early origins of the European financial markets from the Italian Renaissance to the present day. Dr Murphy also provides a useful introduction to finance, the stock market and the bond market.
    Podcast Series: Origins of the European Financial Markets

  • ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing

      Historian article
    As the value of music education is again a topic of societal debate, Tudor composer William Byrd, the four hundredth anniversary of whose death is celebrated this year, was a powerful advocate of singing in early modern England, writes Katherine Butler. Tudor composer William Byrd (c.1540–1623) is recognised today not only...
    ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing

  • Parliament, people or privilege: Do we need a better understanding of constitutional history?

      Historical Association conference 2017: round table discussion
    Join our panel, including Dr Alix Green, Professor Tony Badger and Professor Justin Champion as they discuss how recent polls and election results have confounded many pundits. Do calls to ‘give us our country back’ or ‘return our sovereignty’ suggest that many people in liberal democracies need a better understanding of...
    Parliament, people or privilege: Do we need a better understanding of constitutional history?

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the English Reformation

      Teaching History feature
    Since the first stirrings of religious reform in the sixteenth century, people have been writing the history of the Reformation, debating what happened and why it happened. John Foxe arguably became the first historian of the English Reformation when he published Actes and Monuments in 1563. Better known as ‘The...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the English Reformation

  • Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in Britain

      Podcast
    2012 Annual Conference LectureShot by both sides: Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in BritainMatthew Worley: Reader in History, University of ReadingThis paper examines the way in which organisations of the far left and far right endeavoured to appropriate elements of British youth culture to validate their analysis of...
    Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in Britain

  • Recent Advances in the Study of Surnames

      Article
    Many surnames have a straightforward meaning. It is obvious that names such as Smith, Wright and Turner come from occupations; that names such as Pickering or York are from the names of places; and that Roberts, Robertson, Robson and Robinson are derived from the same personal name. It is not...
    Recent Advances in the Study of Surnames

  • Lecture: Gender, place and power in controverted 18th century elections

      HA Annual Conference lecture 2019
    Lecture: Gender, place and power in controverted 18th century elections

  • John Wilkes 1725-1797: A Man of Principle

      Historian article
    For Lord North in 1775, one John Wilkes was enough, ‘though ... to do him justice, it was not easy to find many such'. The impact of Wilkes between 1760 and 1780 was profound, a cause as much as a person. For Philip Francis, thought to be the satirist ‘Junius',...
    John Wilkes 1725-1797: A Man of Principle

  • Bonnie Prince Charlie: The escape of the Prince in 1746

      Historian article
    Thirty thousand pounds was an enormous sum of money in 1746. That was the reward offered by the British government for the capture of Prince Charles. Many Highlanders knew where he was at various times and places after Culloden, but they did not betray him. As one of his helpers...
    Bonnie Prince Charlie: The escape of the Prince in 1746

  • White heat or hot air? The politics of science in 1960s Britain

      Historian article
    Britain in the 1960s was captivated by scientific advancements. The public interest in ‘science’ was reflected in popular culture during this period. This zeitgeist for scientific revolution also captured aspects of British politics. The government of Harold Wilson sought to encourage scientific progress. Yet the difference between political aims and...
    White heat or hot air? The politics of science in 1960s Britain

  • Out and About: The historical significance of the Botanic Garden in Oxford

      Historian feature
    The Oxford Botanic Garden was Britain’s first botanic garden and is world-renowned. Mia Andreasen, who knows it well, explores why they have been so successful and how they reflect not only plant life but also the global history of the past 400 years.
    Out and About: The historical significance of the Botanic Garden in Oxford

  • Doing history: reconstructing the life of physician, psychiatrist and anthropologist James Cowles Prichard

      Historian feature
    Margaret Crump’s Doing History explains how she went about researching the life of a Victorian scientist, gathering material about the man himself from a variety of sources including newspapers, genealogical databases, and archives, supplemented by contextual knowledge of the period.
    Doing history: reconstructing the life of physician, psychiatrist and anthropologist James Cowles Prichard

  • Mercurial justice: a Jesuit chaplain’s view of life in the prisons of sixteenth-century Seville

      Historian article
    Justice in the early modern period was discretionary, which meant it could be both violent and deeply unfair. Elites often escaped the most severe punishments inflicted on the poor and minoritised groups. Clare Burgess shows how a Jesuit chaplain in sixteenth- century Seville used his spiritual discretion and zealous belief...
    Mercurial justice: a Jesuit chaplain’s view of life in the prisons of sixteenth-century Seville

  • Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks

      Historian article
    Hulks – former naval ships used as prisons for those convicted of serious crime and sentenced to transportation – were intended to be a temporary solution to a penal crisis caused by the American Revolutionary Wars. These ‘schools of vice’, or ‘floating hells’ lasted 80 years, casting a shadow over...
    Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks

  • Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America

      Historian article
    From the early nineteenth century until the First World War, millions of Irish women emigrated to North America in search of better lives. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, co-leads for the AHRC-funded Bad Bridget research project, tell us how poverty, discrimination, isolation from family as well as greed and opportunism...
    Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America

  • Imperial spaces of a ‘miniature world’: the case of Rugby School, c.1828–1850

      Historian article
    English public schools in the nineteenth century were training grounds not just for society’s elites but also for careers in Britain’s imperial service. In this article, Holly Hiscox explores the ways in which schools such as Rugby provided pupils with a miniature world of domestic and professional life which prepared...
    Imperial spaces of a ‘miniature world’: the case of Rugby School, c.1828–1850

  • Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968

      Historian feature
    In this article, Zubin Burley looks at how a visit to the local archive can transform our understanding of an important event in British social history...
    Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968

  • Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom

      Article
    This webinar examines the era of ‘post-emancipation’ in the Caribbean from around the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the notion of ‘emancipation’ and asks what kind of ‘freedom’ did abolition bring to the formerly enslaved? How did colonial states and other authorities seek to regulate the lives of...
    Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom