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Capone's lost lair: The Lexington Hotel, Chicago
Historian article
Alphonse Gabriel Capone's bequest to history is a well-known catalogue of brutal racketeering, bootlegging, gangland murders (most infamously the St Valentine's Day Massacre of 14 February 1929) and the corruption of both American public morals and her elected officials, including the US Judiciary, Chicago mayoralty and city police force.
Born...
Capone's lost lair: The Lexington Hotel, Chicago
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The Historian 101: The snobbery of chronology
The magazine of the Historical Association
The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front - Mark Mortimer (Read Article)
President's Column - Anne Curry
The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings - Chris Dennis (Read Article)
Winston Churchill and the Islamic...
The Historian 101: The snobbery of chronology
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Arnold Wilkins: Pioneer of British Radar
Historian article
Whenever British radar is discussed the name that usually comes to mind is that of Robert Watson Watt. Our history books and our dictionaries of biography consistently attribute the discovery of radar in Britain solely to Watson Watt, with little or no mention of the key role played by his...
Arnold Wilkins: Pioneer of British Radar
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The Historian 56: Philip II of Spain
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
Philip II of Spain, the Prudent King - James Casey (Read article)
Quixotically Generous...Economically Worthless - William Kenefick (Read article)
1497, Cornwall, and the Wars of the Roses - Ian Arthurson (Read article)
Stalin, Propoganda, Soviet Society, and the Great Terror - Sarah Davies (Read article)
The New...
The Historian 56: Philip II of Spain
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The Historian 30
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Images: Catherine II of Russia, Enlightened Absolutism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Roger Bartlett
10 Update: Disraeli, Ian Machin
12 Portfolio: The Secret 'Iron Tongs' of Midwifery, Joyce Rushen
14 Terylene, Rex Collins
16 Local History: The Ordnance Survey: A Quick Guide for Historians, Richard Oliver
The Historian 30
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A Crusading Outpost: the City and County of Edessa - 1095-1153
Article
Edessa is not now to be found on maps of the Near East; instead there is Urfa, the Turkish name for the former Christian city lying in the upper region of the Euphrates valley some two hundred and fifty kilometres from the Mediterranean. Like Christian Edessa, Moslem Urfa is a...
A Crusading Outpost: the City and County of Edessa - 1095-1153
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The Historian 20
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, C N.L Brooke
10 Update: The Industrial Revolution, John J. Mason
13 Local History: Laxton: England's Last Open Field Village, John Beckett
17 Education Forum: The School History Question, Roger Hennessey
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The Historian 14
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution, Hugh Cunningham
10 Anniversary: 200 — Not Out! Bicentenary of Lord's Cricket Ground
12 Education Forum: History from 14 to 16, Martin Roberts
13 Local History: The Countryside: History and Pseudo-History, Oliver Rackham
19 Interpretation: How Wicked were Irish Landlords? David-Paterson
23 Personalia: Profile...
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Culture Shock: The Arrival of the Conquistadores in Aztec Mexico
Historian article
When the Spanish Conquistadores arrived in Mexico during the early sixteenth century there were many repercussions for the indigenous people. Their conversion to Christianity and the sacking of their temples are two of the most well known examples. However, it is often forgotten that the Aztecs had only a pictorial...
Culture Shock: The Arrival of the Conquistadores in Aztec Mexico
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The Historian 31
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Cultural Life in Latin America in the Age of the Enlightenment, John Fisher
10 Update: Spain and Portugal - From Dictatorship to Democracy, Richard Robinson
13 Portfolio: The Pageant of Monarchy: Royal Ceremonial in the Early Nineteenth Century, E.A. Smith
17 Local History: Can Our Record Offices Cope?...
The Historian 31
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The Historian 15
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Tudor Princes of Wales, P.R. Roberts
10 Update: Germany 1860-1918, V.R. Berghahn
13 Education Forum: History at 16 to 18, Eric Evans
14 Local History: Some Social History Premises, Norman McCord
18 Personalia: Past Presidents, W. Norton-Medlicott
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The Historian 25
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Francesco Crispi and the Legacy of the Rsorgimento, Christopher Duggan
9 Update: Popular Protest in Britain c.1811-1850, John Rule
24 Education Forum: Computers in the Teaching and Learning of History, Aknic Dickinson
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The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings
Article
How did King Harold II die at the Battle of Hastings? The question is simple enough and the answer is apparently well known. Harold was killed by an arrow which struck him in the eye. His death is depicted clearly on the Bayeux Tapestry in one of its most famous...
The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings
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Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination
Historian article
Commonly hailed as a discovery or a ‘medical breakthrough', vaccination against smallpox with cowpox exudate was a development of variolation i.e. inoculation with live smallpox matter - a technique popularised amongst the gentry in the early eighteenth century by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who had observed the procedure in Turkey...
Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination
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Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee
Historian feature
This 'Real Lives' piece is based on a series of interviews Annette Ormanczyk carried out in 2019 with Mrs Irena Persak, who was deported as a five-year-old child with her family in February 1940. As well as offering a fascinating personal account of life in the Soviet Union during the Second...
Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee
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Real Lives: Harry Daley
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: Harry Daley
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The Historian 39
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Black Death, James L. Bolton
10 Update: The Causes of British Imperialism: Battle Rejoined, Muriel Chamberlain
13 Biography: Sir Humphry Davy, 1778-1829: A Life Too Long? David M. Knight
16 Historiography: Historical Atlases Reconsidered, Jeremy Black
22 Personalia: Chris Wrigley
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The Historian 26
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Martin Luther King, Jr, Adam Fairclough
10 Update: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, Chris Wrigley
13 Education Forum: History and the National Curriculum, Martin Roberts
14 Portfolio: The Rise of the English Gentry 1150-1350, Cohn Richmond
19 Museums: Berlin Museums & the Third Reich, Tom Holder
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Jubilee and the Idea of Royalty
2002 Medlicott Lecture
The Medlicott Lecture delivered at the Historical Association Annual General Meeting on 27th April 2002, transcribed and featured in The Historian 76.
Jubilee and the Idea of Royalty
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Christopher Hill: Marxism and Methodism
Historian article
Christopher Hill, the eminent historian of seventeenth century England, was a convinced Marxist throughout most of his long and productive life (1912-2003). He embraced this secular world-view when he was a young History student at Oxford in the polemical 1930s and never lost his ideological commitment, even though he resigned...
Christopher Hill: Marxism and Methodism
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Smithfield's Bartholomew Fair
Historian article
On the north-western side of the City of London, directly in front of St Bartholomew's Hospital near the ancient church of St Bartholomew the Great, there once lay a ‘smooth field', now known as Smithfield. This open space of around ten acres had a long and turbulent history. In medieval...
Smithfield's Bartholomew Fair
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The Historian 59: The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath
Article
4 The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath, by Trevor Fawcett
10 The Purpose and Political Significance of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World, by Jenny Wilson
16 Working Class Conservatism and the Rise of Labour: a case study of Birmingham in the 1920s, by John Boughton
21 A National...
The Historian 59: The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath
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1066: The Limits of our Knowledge
Historian article
As the most pivotal and traumatic event in English history, the Norman Conquest continues to generate controversy and debate, especially among those who know little about it or enjoy passing judgement on the past. Who had the better claim to the English throne, William the Conqueror or Harold Godwineson? Was...
1066: The Limits of our Knowledge
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Verdun: the endless battle
Historian article
Most can agree that the battle of Verdun started 100 years ago, on 21 February 1916, when the Germans began attacking French positions north and east of the old fortress town on the Meuse river. Few can agree on when it ended. The Germans might draw a line under it...
Verdun: the endless battle
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French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?
Historian article
The year 1066 - the one universally remembered date in English history, so well-known that banks advise customers not to choose it as their PIN number - opened the country up to French influence in spectacular fashion. During the ‘long twelfth century' (up to King John's death in 1216) that...
French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?
