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Out and About in Wheathampstead
Historian feature
Dianne Payne examines the structural local history of Wheathampstead and provides a template for wider comparisons.
The rural village of Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, situated about four miles from St Albans, lies on the River Lea. The village and surrounding land has a long history and in ancient times was owned by the...
Out and About in Wheathampstead
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The Historian 1
The magazine of the Historical Association
The first ever edition of The Historian magazine, first published in Autumn 1983. The edition's editorial sets out this vision for the magazine:
“The Historian lays no claim to an elaborate philosophy, but is conceived as an up-to-date and forward-looking magazine provided by and for all historians. It advances no editorial...
The Historian 1
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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
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Civilian expertise in war
Historian article
Philip Hamlyn Williams introduces us to the commercial and industrial background to modern-day warfare.
When I think of war, I immediately see men and women in one of three uniforms: Royal Navy, RAF and Army. My research over the past seven years into how the British army was supplied in two...
Civilian expertise in war
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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...
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The Historian 4
The magazine of the Historical Association
Articles include:
3 Feature: The Great Fire of Westminster 1834 – Patrick Cormack
8 Local History: Archive Services in the Metropolitan Counties and in Greater London – Elizabeth Berry
12 Record Linkage: Cartoonists and the General Elections of 1945 and 1983 – Adrian Smith
16 Update: Parliament in the Middle Ages – Helen Jewell
20 Medals of...
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The Historian 5
The magazine of the Historical Association
Articles include:
3 Presidential Lecture: Hardly Any Women At All – Irene Collins
9 Local History: Married Women – Helen Meller and Margaret Gerrish
11 The Battle of Nevilles Cross – John Rhodes
12 Update: Russia, 1855-1917 – R.B. McKean
16 Personalia: Profile of Donald Read
35 Spotlight: Leeds
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Real Lives: Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
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: Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
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The Historian 6
The magazine of the Historical Association
Articles include:
3 Feature: Forty Years in the Field – Maurice Beresford
10 Local History: Agrarian Changes in the 18th and 19th Centuries
15 Record Linkage: The Factory and the Community – Chris Wrigley
18 Westminster Diary: Archives in Danger
20 Personalia: Profile of Geoffrey Dickens
32 Spotlight: Styal
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The Historian 7
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 The Death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Jeanne Handzic
8 The Duke of Wellington at Home, R.E Foster
10 George V. Ferguson, Canada and Appeasement, Robin Betts
13 The Dykes, J.L. Ferns
16 Social History: The Seaside Resort, John K. Walton
25 Update: The Ancien Regime, Nora Temple
28...
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The Historian 8
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Institute of Historical Research, F.M.L. Thompson
10 Domesday Celebrations: Robert Smith, John Palmer
16 Local History: The Victoria County History, C.R J. Currie
20 Past Presidents: W.N. Medlicott
31 Spotlight: Cambridge
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Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns
Historian article
Trevor James offers a case study in how to define and identify inns as part of the historic urban environment.
Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns had a remarkable and formative effect on its urban landscape, an effect which still endures into modern times. Topographers and...
Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns
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The Historian 9
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Past's Living Voice: Coinage as Media, Harold Mattingly
10 Update: Trade Unions in Britain 1875-1939, Chris Wrigley
24 Personalia: Profile of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
27 Spotlight: Bangor
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The many queens of Ancient Egypt
Historian article
Joyce Tyldesley explains the significant but often hidden roles played by queens in Ancient Egypt.
For almost 3,000 years – from the unification of the land in 3100 BC to the arrival of Alexander the Great in 332 BC – the king (or pharaoh) of Egypt served as an essential...
The many queens of Ancient Egypt
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The Historian 10
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Henry Vll's Dynastic Hieroglyphs, Sydney Anglo
10 Local History: Industrial Archaeology, Marilyn Palmer
14 Westminster Diary: The Importance and Content of History Teaching, Ralph Dauis
15 Update: Chartism, Peter Searby
19 Report: History and Higher Education, Michael Biddiss
21 Personalia: Profile of Henry Loyn
31 Spotlight: Malmesbury, Nigel...
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History Abridged: Libraries
Historian feature
History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles
The collecting of stories through written record is one of the most important methods societies...
History Abridged: Libraries
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The Historian 151: Branches
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
8 Cinderella dreams: young love in postwar Britain – Carol Dyhouse (Read article)
14 The secret diaries of William Wilberforce – John Coffey (Read article)
20 Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century – Christine Fox (Read article)
25 The cultural...
The Historian 151: Branches
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Out and About on the Isle of Man
Historian article
Caroline Smith introduces us to the delights in the south of her home island.
The Isle of Man has had mixed fortunes as a tourist destination. It first attracted visitors in the early nineteenth century and had its heyday in 1913. In that year, over 600,000 holidaymakers came during the...
Out and About on the Isle of Man
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History Abridged: POTUS - President of the United States
Historian article
History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles
Described as the most powerfully...
History Abridged: POTUS - President of the United States
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My Favourite History Place: The Chantry Chapel of St Mary on Wakefield Bridge
Historian feature
Wakefield Bridge Chapel, by the River Calder, is thought by many to be the finest of four bridge chantries, the others being Bradford-on-Avon, Derby and Rotherham. The chapel at Wakefield was originally founded and endowed by the people of Wakefield and district between 1342 and 1359.
In 1397 Edmund de Langley,...
My Favourite History Place: The Chantry Chapel of St Mary on Wakefield Bridge
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The Historian 11
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Sultan Süleyman's Marred Magnificence, John D. Norton
10 Prospect: History of Education at the Crossroads, Richard Aldrich
14 Personalia: Martin Booth and Keith Robbins
16 Reports: History at the Universities Defence Group and History at the Polytechnics
17 Portfolio Piece: John Hancock and the Declaration of Independence, John...
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Out and About: Barging between Brindleys
Historian feature
Coventry canal basin ought to be a hive of activity. It is a collection of new and well-restored buildings around the terminal arms of the Coventry Canal and could be like thriving Gas Street Basin in neighbouring Birmingham, but it is on the wrong side of the inner ring road....
Out and About: Barging between Brindleys
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The spy who never spied
Historian article
Claire Hubbard-Hall takes us on a wartime journey across the Atlantic.
On 30 June 1942, the Swedish-American liner SS Drottningholm docked in New York Harbour. As a diplomatic ship it had just completed its run from Lisbon (Portugal) to America. Standing at 538 feet long and 60 feet wide, painted white...
The spy who never spied
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The Historian 12
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: A Prisoner's Pursuits: the Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, Gordon R. Batho
10 Record Linkage: Sir Lewis Harcourt and the Foreign Office Telegrams July 1914, Keith Wilson
13 Update: English Politics and Society in the Eighteenth Century, Bill Speck
16 HUDG: Middle Age Spread, John Boume
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The Historian 13
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Fiume 1919, John di Folco
6 Feature: Republicanism in Victorian Britain, Robert Woodall
10 Update: The Origins of the Cold War, John Young
14 Education Forum: Michael Biddiss, Alex Cowan
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