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  • The Chapel and the Nation

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Noncoformitst chapel has played a crucial role in the history of the English and Welsh nations. When the great French historian Elie Halevy sought to explain the contrast between the turbulent history of his own country and the peaceful evolution of England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
    The Chapel and the Nation

  • Radiating the Revolution: Agitation in the Russian Civil War 1917-21

      Article
    When the Bolsheviks seized power in what was essentially a carefully organised coup d’état in October 1917, they seized control only of the levers of central power in the then capital, Petrograd, which had already become the centre of working-class discontent. What they most emphatically did not do was to...
    Radiating the Revolution: Agitation in the Russian Civil War 1917-21

  • Petit’s impact on our understanding of Victorian life and culture

      Historian article
    Tiffany Igharoro, a Young Historian Award-winner, introduces us to the artwork of Revd John Louis Petit, showing that art not only reflects the times in which it is created, but can also be used to shape opinions. The Revd John Louis Petit (1801–68) created thousands of paintings in his lifetime, many of which...
    Petit’s impact on our understanding of Victorian life and culture

  • Religion and Party in Late Stuart England

      Classic Pamphlet
    The second English Revolution of the seventeenth century, the Revolution of 1688, ushered in during the next twenty-five years a series of changes which were to be profoundly important to the ultimate development of the country. Most conspicuously, the reigns of William III and Anne released Englishmen - though not...
    Religion and Party in Late Stuart England

  • Five stones in St Albans: life in Verulamium

      Historian article
    In this article, based on a prize winning essay for the Historical Association’s Young Historian competition, Alice Finnie explores aspects of the important Roman town of Verulamium, on the site of the modern city of St Albans. Her focus is on five stones that survive from the Roman period. She...
    Five stones in St Albans: life in Verulamium

  • Film: Lenin's legacy

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    With his body was embalmed and building high statues were erected to him Lenin’s memory seemed secured for ever. Yet how did his memory and his actual legacy differ? Did he really set the course for a future better Russia, or were his ideas of revolution better on paper than...
    Film: Lenin's legacy

  • Film: Lenin and the Russian Civil War

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Revolution is never simple. Lenin and the Bolsheviks quickly found that not everyone in Russia or outside of it approved of their new radical agenda. Russia was plunged into a civil war of devastating circumstances. How would its new leader manage and how much were the needs of the people...
    Film: Lenin and the Russian Civil War

  • Jacobitism

      Classic Pamphlet
    In recent years, the debate over the nature, extent, and influence of the Jacobite movement during the 70 years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 has become one of the new growth industries among professional historians, spawning scholarly quarrels almost as ferocious as those which characterised ‘the Cause' itself.The term...
    Jacobitism

  • The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

  • Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 - 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. According to Caroline Hoefferle, "Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century." ...
    Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet

  • The effect of the loss of the American Colonies upon British Policy

      Classic Pamphlet
    (1) Problems of an Empire in ruinsTwo weeks after Yorktown, but before the news of that disaster had reached England, George III wrote to Lord North that "The dye is now cast whether this shall be a great Empire or the least dignified of European states." England had not fought...
    The effect of the loss of the American Colonies upon British Policy

  • Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta

      Article
    This month at the Virtual Branch, renowned medieval historian David Carpenter will delve into the enduring legacy of Magna Carta. Drawing on his recent work uncovering and authenticating a Magna Carta document in the United States, Carpenter will explore why both the dating and the content of this foundational charter...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta

  • The Scottish Enlightenment

      Classic Pamphlet
    In recent decades, Scotland's distinctive contribution to the Enlightenment has been of increasing interest to scholars. Often very remarkable in an analytical view, such studies may nevertheless miss their sense of the story by treating Scottish insight in abstraction from Scottish life. Taking a more concrete approach, the present study...
    The Scottish Enlightenment

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 9

      Branch Publication
    3 From the Editor 4 From the Chairman 5 Hymn Writer Supreme - Dr R. Brinley Jones 6 Venice, the Biennale and Wales - Dr John Law 7 18th Century Underwear - Jean Webber 9 Whigs and wigs 12 Howell Harris - David James 15 Branch news 16 British Government's...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 9

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Henry III and Simon de Montfort

      Article
    David Carpenter brings to life the dramatic events in the last phase of Henry III’s momentous reign, provides a fresh account of the king’s strenuous efforts to recover power and sheds new light on the rebel figure Simon de Montfort. Professor David Carpenter is a Professor of Medieval History at King's College...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Henry III and Simon de Montfort

  • Glowing in the Dark

      Historian article
    The twentieth century celebrated many new technologies and just like many of those from the industrial revolution we now know them to be edged with danger and potential long-term damage. Here we learn about the effects that radium, bolstered by its advantages in war time, had on the civilian factory...
    Glowing in the Dark

  • Film: The Origins of Mass Society - Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Article
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    Film: The Origins of Mass Society - Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

  • Out and about in Bolton - Industrial Revelation

      Historian feature
    Despite its old name of Bolton-le-Moors, the history of Bolton is tied up with the Industrial Revolution. Its population grew from 17,000 inhabitants in 1801 to nearly 181,000 in 1911. It is well known that the damp climate of England's north west was perfectly suited to the textile industry, and...
    Out and about in Bolton - Industrial Revelation

  • The Enlightenment

      Classic Pamphlet
    Can a movement as varied and diffuse as the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century be contained within the covers of a short pamphlet? The problem would certainly have appealed to the intellectuals of that time. Generalists rather than specialists, citizens of the whole world of knowledge, they relished the challenge...
    The Enlightenment

  • Out and About in Stockholm

      Historian feature
    When Désirée Clary – wife of French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte – arrived in Stockholm in 1811, she was appalled. It was true that she would eventually become Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway, her husband having been elected heir-presumptive to the throne the previous year. But she left her new capital...
    Out and About in Stockholm

  • The ‘workless workers’ and the Waterbury watch

      Historian article
    Peter Hounsell looks at the role of the Waterbury Watch Company in both the Queen’s Jubilee and the attempt to record and alleviate unemployment in London in the 1880s. In Britain generally, but for London in particular, 1887 was a year of great contrasts. On 27 June, Londoners lined the...
    The ‘workless workers’ and the Waterbury watch

  • The Englishness of George Orwell

      Podcast
    George Orwell is best known for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four - one book an allegory of The Russian Revolution, and the other a science fiction dystopia about a globalized world. Before these two last works, the heart and soul of Orwell's writing had been about England and the...
    The Englishness of George Orwell

  • History's big picture in three dimensions

      Historian article
    More and more historians, from diverse political viewpoints, are now expressing concern at the fragmentation of history, especially in the schools curriculum. The fragmentation of the subject has followed upon the collapse of sundry Grand Narratives, such as the ‘March of Progress', which once swept all of history into a...
    History's big picture in three dimensions

  • 1968: the year of reckoning

      Historian article
    Hugh Gault explains why, 50 years later, 1968 is still remembered as a dramatic year. 1967 was 'the summer of love', and that spirit continued into 1968; but there were also many events in 1968 that were of a different sort, when the liberty of 1967 was accompanied by a...
    1968: the year of reckoning