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  • The Historian 143: Literature

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article – open access) 8 Linking Law: Viking and medieval Scandinavian law in literature and history – Keith Ruiter (Read article) 13 The Memory of a Saint: managing the legacy of St Bernard of Clairvaux – Georgina Fitzgibbon (Read article) 17 Blurred Lines: the ever-decreasing...
    The Historian 143: Literature

  • Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

      Virtual Branch
    In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.  Marcus Collins...
    Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

  • David Cannadine Interview about his book: The Right Kind of History

      Cannadine Interview
    Sir David Cannadine has done the unthinkable he has traced the teaching of history in state schools since the beginning. In his book The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England he explores the real history of history education the truth is discovered to that age old...
    David Cannadine Interview about his book: The Right Kind of History

  • My Favourite History Place - Nuneaton's Old Grammar School

      Historian article
    Near the centre of the largest town in Warwickshire, an oasis of calm encompasses the area of Nuneaton parish church, vicarage and Old Grammar School. Of the three  buildings, the Old Grammar School may be the least impressive but its history is just as eventful. Nuneaton’s Boys’ Free Grammar School,...
    My Favourite History Place - Nuneaton's Old Grammar School

  • Film: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to renowned historian and author Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch who is currently Professor of the Church at Oxford. His 2008 book History of Christianity: the first three thousand years is the leading authority on the history...
    Film: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • 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

  • The Historian 161: The Silk Roads

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Letters – Ask The Historian 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 The ‘Silk Roads’: the use and abuse of a historical concept – Susan Whitfield (Read article) 14 From Norwich to Nara: reflections on Silk Road connections – Simon Kaner (Read article) 20 Sutton Hoo and long-distance contacts – Andy...
    The Historian 161: The Silk Roads

  • Lecture: From sex to the suffragettes

      Podcast: Keynote Lecture Annual Conference 2019
    Over the last few years, we have seen a widespread cultural failure in our history. From the rose-tinted nostalgia of politicians to a rise in destructive ideologies, history has become weaponised by those who seek to misuse, misrepresent and misunderstand it. At the same time, the field of history is...
    Lecture: From sex to the suffragettes

  • William Stubbs

      Classic Pamphlet
    William Stubbs was among the earliest, and is still one of the greatest of the academical English historians. His life (1825-1901) fell in a period that produced a notable succession of distinguished historians in England. He was the first of them to do his historical work as a resident teacher...
    William Stubbs

  • The Right Kind of History. An Interview with Nicola Sheldon, Jenny Keating and John Hamer

      Interview
    Sir David Cannadine has written the book that tells the history of history in schools. On the podcast on this site he outlines some of his reasons for wanting to write the book and what his findings were. But alongside his name on the front cover are his research team...
    The Right Kind of History. An Interview with Nicola Sheldon, Jenny Keating and John Hamer

  • The Historian 153: The Baltic

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article for free) 8 The Duchy of Courland and a Baltic colonial venture across the ocean – John Freeman (Read article) 12 After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles? – Gregory Gifford (Read article) 18 From Lithuania to Lancashire: life and...
    The Historian 153: The Baltic

  • Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit

      The mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
    Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.  In this talk...
    Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit

  • What is interesting about the Cold War?

      Article
    Almost 30 years after the end of the Cold War, diversity is suddenly galvanising the field of scholarly research into the Cold War. As the historian Federico Romero has argued, older, simpler interpretations ‘seem to be giving way to a looser understanding of the Cold War as an era that encompassed...
    What is interesting about the Cold War?

  • Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?

      Virtual Branch
    Why is the term 'Armenian Genocide' controversial, with many countries still not acknowledging a genocide at all? What do we know about the event of 1915 and the plight of the Armenian community in Turkey? How can we grapple with a history that many people want to forget? In this...
    Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?

  • Do historical anniversaries matter? Case study: Arnhem 1944

      Historian feature
    2019 has been quite a year for historical anniversaries – Peterloo 200, D-Day 75, Monte Cassino 75, Women MPs 100 years, Apollo Moon Landings 50 years and all following on the tail of four years of the First World War centenary – and that is not counting the anniversaries that...
    Do historical anniversaries matter? Case study: Arnhem 1944

  • Professor Justin Champion

      18th June 2020
    With great sadness the Historical Association has learned of the death of our former President, Professor Justin Champion on 10th June after a long illness. Justin was President of the Historical Association from May 2014 until May 2017 and he was a very popular choice, partly because of his background...
    Professor Justin Champion

  • The Invisible Building: St John's in Bridgend

      Historian article
    Molly Cook, winner of this year's Historical Association Young Historian Local History Award, unravels the mystery of a local icon and tells us about her success in inspiring Bridgend to engage with its fascinating past. Having worked on previous projects relating to the history of Bridgend and its place in...
    The Invisible Building: St John's in Bridgend

  • Eyam: the plague village 1665-66

      Historian article
    Richard Stone explores the self-sacrifice of a Seventeenth Century village during an epidemic. History shows us these ‘unprecedented times’ are not that far from previous historical experiences. Lockdown, quarantine, self-isolation, ‘second wave’, ‘third wave’, airborne disease, churches closed; the Covid-19 experience resonates with the plight of the villagers of Eyam, three-and-a-half centuries...
    Eyam: the plague village 1665-66

  • The Historian 157: United States

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial (Read article - open access) 6 Ending Camelot: the assassination of John F Kennedy – Nicolas Kinloch (Read article) 11 Letters 12 Anti-Americanism in Britain during the Second World War – Kit Kowol (Read article) 17 The portrayal of historians in fiction: people on the edge? – Michael Bender (Read article)...
    The Historian 157: United States

  • Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives

      Historian article
    In the last two decades or so there has been a movement towards digitising large collections of original sources. These projects have had a range of purposes, approaches and target audiences but there can be little doubt that they have had a profound impact on the practice of history in...
    Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives

  • Richmond Branch Inter-School Historical Balloon Debate Podcasts

      Branch Podcast
    Richmond Branch held a series of inter-school historical balloon debates at Putney High School on Thursday 15th March 2012.We podcasted the Under 18 debate and have made the excellent and entertaining presentations available to you here.Each school team were asked represent their character over 4 minutes to convince the judges...
    Richmond Branch Inter-School Historical Balloon Debate Podcasts

  • My Favourite History Place - Sackville College, East Grinstead

      Historian feature
    Sackville College almshouse in East Grinstead, Sussex, was founded in 1609, by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset, when he wrote his will. He died 17 days later without seeing one stone laid, yet the College still stands, providing affordable accommodation for local elderly people of limited means. It is...
    My Favourite History Place - Sackville College, East Grinstead

  • The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

      Historian article
    Adam Simmons draws our attention to the need for further research into the relationship between the medieval Kingdoms of Ethiopia and Nubia – a fascinating time and place in African history which is neglected in the historical archive and about which, so far, there are only limited sources. The kingdoms of Ethiopia...
    The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

  • Herbert Art Gallery Coventry - History Centre

      Visit
    Herbert Art Gallery and Museum's brand new History Centre is a treasure trove of information on the history of Coventry and its citizens from medieval times to the present .The huge range of original documents includes books, maps, newspapers, electoral registers and building plans. Photographs, oral history, microfilms and internet sources...
    Herbert Art Gallery Coventry - History Centre

  • The Value of Biography in History

      Article
    7 April 2000: Historical Association, Norton Medlicott Medal Lecture. President, fellow members, ladies and gentlemen. I am deeply conscious that having just received the Norton Medlicott Medal; which means so much to me, that I must try to live up to the honour itself and the traditions of the recipients....
    The Value of Biography in History