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  • 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

  • Out and About in Haworth

      Historian feature
    Kimberley Braxton takes a tour of Brontë country, through Haworth and onto the iconic Yorkshire Moors that were central to Wuthering Heights. Haworth is a place for walkers; even before you reach the breathtaking moors it is likely your legs will already be burning from climbing the steep Yorkshire terrain....
    Out and About in Haworth

  • Film: The Kennedys and the Gores

      HA Conference 2019 - Keynote Speech
    This film was taken at the HA Annual Conference 2019 in Chester and features the HA's President: Professor Tony Badger who presented Friday's keynote lecture.  Find out more about the HA Conference. In a country that prides itself on its egalitarianism and its democracy, it is perhaps surprising that family...
    Film: The Kennedys and the Gores

  • Film: Veteran Mervyn Kersh Talks about his experience of World War II

      An HA film to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day
    Mervyn Kersh was a young man from South London whose army service included arriving into Normandy in the first few days of the invasion, crossing the Rhine and being a British Jewish serviceman in Germany when the war ended. In this film released to commemorate VE Day Mervyn describes his...
    Film: Veteran Mervyn Kersh Talks about his experience of World War II

  • Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66

      Historian article
    Geoffrey Robinson explores a little-known episode of the Cold War where half a million people were killed and the Indonesian communist party was destroyed, aided and abetted by the major Western Powers. Amidst all the talk of fake news and Russian meddling in US politics, it is easy to lose...
    Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66

  • Woodland in the East Staffordshire landscape

      Historian article
    Richard Stone explains that the natural landscape can be a resource for anyone exploring local topography. The idea for researching this topic came while reading Oliver Rackham’s excellent Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape. Calculations based on woodland recorded in Domesday Book revealed my home county of Staffordshire, with...
    Woodland in the East Staffordshire landscape

  • 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

  • Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe

      Historian article
    Trevor James emphasises the importance of this structure in England’s sporting landscape. Tucked behind the houses in Havelock Road in the East Croydon suburb of Addiscombe is a seemingly unprepossessing building, known locally as ‘Havelock Hall’. Now converted into flats, it derives its name from its late nineteenth-century religious use,...
    Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe

  • Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland

      Historian article
    Jim McBride looks at the growing demand for equal civil rights for the Catholic population of Northern Ireland through the 1960s, which led to the resignation of Terence O’Neill in 1969.
    Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland

  • The Scottish dream of Darien

      Historian article
    John McKendrick considers how Scotland’s wish to create a trading empire was dashed and made the Act of Union of 1707 almost inevitable.
    The Scottish dream of Darien

  • Yr Ysgwrn: keeping the door open

      Historian article
    Naomi Jones describes a Welsh poet who has left a different kind of memorial to the First World War.
    Yr Ysgwrn: keeping the door open

  • The Tudor monarchy in Ireland

      Historian article
    Sean Connolly illustrates how Tudor dreams of a reformed Ireland were not realised – instead tensions between Irish magnates and the English Crown often erupted into violence.
    The Tudor monarchy in Ireland

  • 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

  • General HA Conference 2019 resources

      Workshop resources
    The resources in this section are from the general history workshops presented at the HA Annual Conference 2019. The conference took place in Chester on 17-18 May 2019. The HA Annual Conference is a unique opportunity to join the history community on a weekend of engaging history. In the General pathway you can enjoy...
    General HA Conference 2019 resources

  • 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

  • Out and About in Ryedale

      Historian feature
    Tom Pickles explores Ryedale in Yorkshire, where an extraordinary network of churches bears witness to the social, political, and religious transformations of the Anglo-Saxon period.
    Out and About in Ryedale

  • Anglo-Saxon women and power

      Historian article
    Elite Anglo-Saxon women played a powerful role in the religious affairs and politics of their day and were important patrons of learning and culture.
    Anglo-Saxon women and power

  • Alfred versus the Viking Great Army

      Historian article
    Stunning archaeological discoveries have shed new light on the reign of Alfred the Great and his struggles with the Vikings, revealing the might of the Viking armies and the international connections of his kingdom.
    Alfred versus the Viking Great Army

  • New light on Rendlesham

      Historian article
    New research at a royal palace site close to Sutton Hoo poses fresh questions about the nature of the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Christopher Scull and Tom Williamson look at how landscape studies can change our understanding of early English royal rule.
    New light on Rendlesham

  • Eleanor and Franklin: Women and the New Deal

      Annual Conference 2018 Film: Presidential Lecture
    As a pioneering First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt refused, as one admirer put it, ‘to step into her little mould in the biscuit tin of President’s wives that was ready and waiting for her’.  She broadcast on the radio, wrote a newspaper column, travelled endlessly and spoke out fearlessly in defence...
    Eleanor and Franklin: Women and the New Deal

  • 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

  • Out and About with homing pigeons in the Great War

      Historian feature
    Trevor James emphasises the role and importance of ‘messenger’ pigeons on the Western Front. Amidst the one-hundredth anniversary commemorations of the ending of the Great War, there has been a sudden burst of interest, in such varying locations as both Houses of Parliament and the Antiques Roadshow, in the role...
    Out and About with homing pigeons in the Great War

  • Britain’s Jews and the First World War

      Historian article
    Jewish service in the UK military forces can be traced back over 300 years. During the First World War that service was demonstrated into the tens of thousands. In this article the contribution of Anglo-Jewry is brought to light.
    Britain’s Jews and the First World War

  • A South African, a Welshman and a Scotsman and the birth of the Royal Air Force

      Historian article
    In this article Sebastion Cox explores the significant role of international involvement in the creation of the Royal Air Force. The RAF owes its existence to a number of people but high among those deserving of credit are a South African Field Marshal, a Welsh politician and a Scottish soldier.
    A South African, a Welshman and a Scotsman and the birth of the Royal Air Force

  • Good Evening Sweetheart

      Historian article
    The talk given by Sue and Pete Mowforth to the Glasgow Branch, reading from a selection of their parents’ war-time letters, resulted in a flurry of media interest from the national press and radio, including an appearance on the BBC’s The One Show in February 2017. Olga and Cyril Mowforth married in June...
    Good Evening Sweetheart