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  • The Historian 51

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 9 Brasses and History (The 1707 Act of Union) - Christopher Whatley 14 Local Authority Record Offices: Our Heritage at Risk - Rosemary Dunhill (Read article) 16 The Eighteenth century in Britain: long or short? W.A. Speck  20 Football and British-Soviet relations: The Moscow Dynamo and Moscow Spartak tours of 1945...
    The Historian 51
  • The Friar's Bush

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    Nothing on earth would have persuaded me to enter the place… it was the house of the dead. Paul Henry, artist (1876-1958) The Friar's Bush cemetery on the Stranmillis Road in Belfast may only be two acres in size, but its history is far bloodier and grislier than you would...
    The Friar's Bush
  • The Historian 18

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Glorious Revolution in England after 300 years, K.H.D. Haley 10 Education Forum: History in Adult Education 11 Record Linkage: Among My Souvenirs, Roger Whiting 14 Update: Spain: the centuries of greatness and decline, I.A.A. Thompson 17 Portfolio: Alice in the Middle Ages, Patrick Abbott
    The Historian 18
  • The Historian 16

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Reflections on the Armada Campaign, A.N. Ryan 10 Europe: Adventure in Understanding, Frederic Delouche 11 Update: Women in America, Margaret Walsh 14 Education: History in Primary Schools, Ann Low-Beer 15 Eyewitness: Letters from Nuremberg, Ron Brooks
    The Historian 16
  • Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903

      Article
    Isabel Jones from Thomas Mills High School at Framlingham was the winner of the Young Historian Award for Local History [16-19] in 2006. The Director of the Young Historian Project, Trevor James, has edited her winning essay. It has been shortened and the footnotes removed, to enable it to fit...
    Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903
  • Popular revolt and the rise of early modern states

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    In the 1960s and 1970s, historians and sociologists who were not specialists in the Middle Ages constructed models of pre-industrial crowds and revolt to understand the distinctiveness of modern, post-French Revolutionary, Europe. Foremost among these scholars were George Rudé, a historian of eighteenth century England and France, and Charles Tilly,...
    Popular revolt and the rise of early modern states
  • Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery

      Historian feature
    Dave Martin follows Charles Darwin’s journey from university back to his birthplace, Shrewsbury. Cambridge The bronze statue of Darwin as a young man perches elegantly on the arm of a garden bench in the grounds of Christ’s College, Cambridge where he was a student from 1829 to 1831. Of this...
    Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery
  • Late Medieval Taxation Records

      Historian article
    There are more than 23,000 medieval taxation records from England and Wales in the Public Record Office alone. For many years the vast majority of them have lain undisturbed in their archive boxes, but recent work is showing the true value of some of these as historical sources and making...
    Late Medieval Taxation Records
  • The death of Lord Londonderry

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    Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, better known to his contemporaries and to history as Viscount Castlereagh, committed suicide on 12 August 1822, at the age of fifty-three, when Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons. He was one of the great statesmen of his age: as Chief...
    The death of Lord Londonderry
  • The London Charterhouse

      Historian article
    Four hundred years ago, in 1611, Thomas Sutton was reputed to be the wealthiest commoner in England but he was nearing the end of his life. He had been a financier and he was formerly the Master of Ordnance in the Northern Parts. He decided to take up good works...
    The London Charterhouse
  • The Historian 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 Protestantism and art in early modern England - Keith Thomas (Medlicott Lecture to the Historical Association at the Wallace Collection, London, 5 April 2003) (Read article) 18 To what extent was the failure of denazification in Germany 1945-48 a result of the apathy of the allies? -...
    The Historian 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England
  • The Reign of Edward VI: An Historiographical Survey

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    The modern historiography of this critical and disturbed six year period begins with the work of W.K. Jordan. Jordan was already a well established authority on the history of English philanthropy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, when he turned his attention specifically to Edward VI in the mid-1960s.
    The Reign of Edward VI: An Historiographical Survey
  • Out and about in D.H. Lawrence country

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    Eastwood is a busy, small town, about twelve miles west of Nottingham. It lies just within the county boundary with Derbyshire. Its name probably derived from a settlement in a clearing of the old Sherwood Forest. It sits mostly on a hilltop, which is the meeting place for main roads...
    Out and about in D.H. Lawrence country
  • Twickenham as a Patriotic Town

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    Twickenham from the 1890s onwards grew as a town with a special sense of history. Nobody in authority on the local council could quite forget the reputation which the district had acquired as a rural arcadia. The aristocrats and gentry who built villas in the parish in the late 17th...
    Twickenham as a Patriotic Town
  • British Christians and European Integration

      Historian article
    Despite Britain’s longstanding membership of the European Union, the question of ‘Europe’ continues to loom large in the nation’s politics. Whilst the economic pros and cons of Britain ‘joining’ the euro might be understood by only a select few, that issue provides for the many an opportunity to debate Britain’s...
    British Christians and European Integration
  • Hungarian Nationalism in International Context

      Historian article
    All aspects of Hungarian nationalism – with one exception, which I shall consider later – had more or less similar counterparts elsewhere in Europe; but the blending of those elements yielded a unique constellation. Moreover, the ingredients of this mixture proved highly disruptive for central Europe, indeed at times for...
    Hungarian Nationalism in International Context
  • The Historian 2

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Articles include: 3 Feature: Representations of the Robin Hood Legend – John Taylor 13 The Case for History in School – John Slater 17 Local History: Blind Houses – Mary Delorme 19 Record Linkage: Deadboards – Trevor James 22 Update: Restoration and Revolution 1660-1714 – John Childs 28 Personalia: Profile of A J.P Taylor...
    The Historian 2
  • The Historian 112: The Myth of the frontier in the Hollywood western

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 Nazi aggression: planned or improvised? - Hendrik Karsten Hogrefe (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Jackie Eales 12 Neville Chamberlain: villain or hero? - Brent Dyck (Read Article) 16 Cyprus: another Middle East issue - Sarah Newman (Read Article) 20 Have gun, will travel: The myth of the...
    The Historian 112: The Myth of the frontier in the Hollywood western
  • Fascist behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain

      Historian article
    In the spring and early summer of 1940, the British government carried out a programme of mass internment without trial. On 11 May, the first of thousands of ‘enemy aliens' were interned. Many of these internees were refugees from Nazi Germany, often Jews who had fled Germany in fear of...
    Fascist behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain
  • The Historian 3

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Articles include: 3 Feature: Siecle des Lumieres – Hugh Dunthome 15 Record Linkage: Deltiology – Ian F. Imlay 19 Eyewitness: Letters from Lady Buchanan – Keith Wilson 22 Local History: American Local History through English Eyes – W.B. Stephens 26 Spotlight: Allen Brown's Normandy – Harry Challis 28 Personalia: Profile of Professor Wang Juefei 29...
    The Historian 3
  • How Nelson Became a Hero

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    The fittest man in the world for the command' of the Mediterranean, Lord Minto declared of Horatio Nelson on 24 April 1798, following Nelson's inventive assault on Spanish ships off Cape St. Vincent. 'Admiral Nelson's victory [at the Nile]… is one of the most glorious and comprehensive victories ever achieved...
    How Nelson Became a Hero
  • The Last Duke of Lorraine

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    The Place Stanislas in Nancy has a high reputation. But expectations are far surpassed as one surveys the beautifully proportioned square, with its imposing buildings such as the Hôtel de Ville and the Governor's Palace, its Arc de Triomphe and its magnificent iron work. It is a reminder of how...
    The Last Duke of Lorraine
  • The Historian 110: The Escape of the Prince in 1746

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The escape of the Prince in 1746 - A E MacRobert (Read Article) 12 Oxford's Literary War: Oxford University's servicemen and the Great War - Dr Stephen M. Cullen (Read Article) 18 Enter the Tudor Prince - Trevor Fisher (Read Article) 22 India and the British war...
    The Historian 110: The Escape of the Prince in 1746
  • Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Early Encounters

      Historian article
    Winston Churchill had a major impact on British and world history in the twentieth century. A great deal has been written on his roles in the two world wars and on many aspects of his career. Yet relatively little attention has been paid to his relations with the Islamic world....
    Winston Churchill and the Islamic World: Early Encounters
  • The Historian 109: Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The British Government's Confidential Files on the United States - A. D. Harvey (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Anne Curry 12 Smithfield's Bartholomew Fair - Dianne Payne (Read Article) 18 The Charles Dickens Primary School Project - Alan Parkinson (Read Article) 22 Medieval ‘Signs and...
    The Historian 109: Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'