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George Eliot and Warwickshire history
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David Paterson explains how George Eliot’s vivid memory of her childhood in north Warwickshire is revealed through her novels.
George Eliot, born 200 years ago this year, is one of our greatest novelists, born and brought up in Warwickshire, a county in which she spent the first 30 years of...
George Eliot and Warwickshire history
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The Historian 162: Environment
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4 Letters
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Environmental history and the challenges of the present – Amanda Power (Read article)
12 Art and ecology: making connections across museum collections to educate people about the Earth Crisis – Carla Benzan and Samuel Shaw (Read article)
18 Glacier Tours in the Northern Playground – Christian...
The Historian 162: Environment
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The Historian 158: Music
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article - open access)
6 ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing – Katharine Butler (Read article)
11 Letters
12 A history of Choral Evensong: the birth of an English tradition – Tom Coxhead (Read article)
17 Reviews
18 Building new futures by rewriting the past:...
The Historian 158: Music
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The Historian 154: Jubilee
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article for free)
6 (Un)exceptional women: queenship and power in medieval Europe – Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Storey (Read article)
10 Dress becomes her: the appearance and apparel of Elizabeth II – Benjamin Linley Wild (Read article)
15 Reviews
16 The throne and the fairy tellers –...
The Historian 154: Jubilee
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The Historian 153: The Baltic
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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
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The Historian 152: Built Environment
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
8 The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site – Catherine Lloyd (Read article)
16 Out and About in Wheathampstead – Dianne Payne (Read article)
20 The last days of Lord Londonderry – Richard A. Gaunt (Read article)
25 Reviews
26 Civilian expertise...
The Historian 152: Built Environment
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The Historian 151: Branches
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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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The Historian 149: Pandemics
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article for free)
6 Florence Nightingale and epidemics – Richard Bates (Read article)
11 Real Lives: Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial in Hints churchyard: Edward George Keeling – Trevor James (Read article)
12 The experience of Bilston in the cholera epidemic of 1831–32: a melancholy pre-eminence in...
The Historian 149: Pandemics
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The Historian 147: The Historic Environment
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5 Editorial (Read article)
6 ‘The cradle of the Industrial Revolution’: landscapes of early textile Lancashire – Michael Winstanley (Read article)
12 The invisible building: what was the forgotten purpose of St. John’s in Bridgend? – Molly Cook (Read article)
16 Grave matters: what the landscape and architecture of Britain’s largest cemetery might tell us...
The Historian 147: The Historic Environment
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The Historian 145: Migration
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5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Out and About: exploring Black British history through headstones – Jill Sudbury (Read article)
10 The 1620 Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America – Martyn Whittock (Read article)
16 Migration into the UK in the early twenty-first century: temporal trends and spatial...
The Historian 145: Migration
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The Historian 144: War
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6 The last battle: Bomber Command’s veterans and the fight for remembrance – Frances Houghton (Read article)
11 British-Army camp followers in the Peninsular War – Charles J. Esdaile (Read article)
16 Sparta and war: myths and realities – Stephen Hodkinson (Read article)
22 Losing sight of the...
The Historian 144: War
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The Historian 143: Literature
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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
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The Historian 142: Hidden histories
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6 Hidden histories: landscape spotting – a brief guide – Mary-Ann Ochota (Read article)
12 Real Lives: Independent African – Joe Wilkinson (Read article)
17 Reviews
18 Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66 – Geoffrey Robinson (Read article)
24 Hidden from history: how hidden are...
The Historian 142: Hidden histories
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The Historian 141: New approaches to local history
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4 Reviews (See all reviews online)
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 A European dimension to local history – Trevor James (Read article)
11 The President’s Column
12 The Diabolical Cato-Street Plot: the Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820 – Richard A. Gaunt (Read article)
16 George Eliot and Warwickshire history – David Paterson (Read article)...
The Historian 141: New approaches to local history
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The Historian 140: A Shared History
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5 Editorial (Read article)
8 Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland – Jim McBride (Read article)
13 Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer – Colin Wheldon James (Read article)
18 National distinctions entirely laid aside?: British history through the eyes of Welsh writers in the...
The Historian 140: A Shared History
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The Historian 135: Revolution
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 The German Revolution of 1918-19: war and breaking point – Simon Constantine (Read article)
12 Steering the ship of state into port or, ending the French Revolution, 1789-1802 – Malcolm Crook (Read article)
19 The President’s Column
20 The Russian Revolution 100 years on:...
The Historian 135: Revolution
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The Historian 133: Celebrating Asa Briggs
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 The Man from Keighley - Trevor James
10 Asa Briggs’s Birmingham - Roger Ward
12 Asa Briggs and labour history - Chris Wrigley
16 Asa Briggs: an appreciation - Stephen Yeo
21 The President’s Column
22 Asa Briggs and political history - Peter Catterall
26...
The Historian 133: Celebrating Asa Briggs
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The Historian 131: 1066 in 2016
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4 Reviews (See latest reviews online)
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 1066 in 2016 - David Bates (Read article)
12 Populism, Progressivism and Trumpism: third party, inter-party and intra-party candidates in campaigns for the American presidency - Michael Dunne (Read article)
19 The President’s Column
20 Admiral Lord Mountbatten: man of science...
The Historian 131: 1066 in 2016
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The Historian 129: From Source to Screen
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 Battle of the Somme: the making of the 1916 propaganda film - Taylor Downing (Read article)
12 MOOCs and the Middle Ages: England in the time of King Richard III - Deirdre O’Sullivan (Read article)
18 Earth in vision: pathfinding in the BBC’s archive of...
The Historian 129: From Source to Screen
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The Historian 128: The Sykes-Picot agreement
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 A precious jewel: English Calais, 1347-1558 - Dan Spencer (Read article)
11 The President's Column
12 Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation - Geoffrey Carter (Read article)
17 St Peter's-ad-murum, Bradwelljuxta-Mare - Marie Paterson (Read article)
18 The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines...
The Historian 128: The Sykes-Picot agreement
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The Historian 125: Magna Carta
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 The making of Magna Carta - Sophie Ambler (Read Article)
12 Magna Carta: oblivion and revival - Nicholas Vincent (Read Article)
15 The President's Column
16 Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to ‘freeborn...
The Historian 125: Magna Carta
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The Historian 124: Friend or Foe?
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 An interview with Linda Colley (Watch the interview)
11 The President's Column
12 Friend or foe? Foreigners in England in the later Middle Ages - Mark Ormrod (Read Article)
18 Daniel Defoe, public opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union - Ted Vallance (Read Article)
23 Memorial...
The Historian 124: Friend or Foe?
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The Historian 123: Newcastle & the General Strike 1926
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 Using the House by Wendy Barnes
11 The President's Column
12 Newcastle and the General Strike 1926 - Hugh Gault (Read Article)
16 A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester - Dave Martin (Read Article)
20 The shortest war in history - Alf Wilkinson (Read...
The Historian 123: Newcastle & the General Strike 1926
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The Historian 119: Women in History
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5 Editorial
6 Queenship in Medieval England: A Changing Dynamic? - Louise Wilkinson (Read article)
12 Petticoat Politicians: Women and the Politics of the Parish in England - Sarah Richardson (Read article)
17 The President's Column
18 Strange Journey: the life of Dorothy Eckersley - Stephen M. Cullen (Read Article)...
The Historian 119: Women in History
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The Historian 118: Travel
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5 Editorial
6 Cathars and Castles in Medieval France - Richard Eales (Read Article)
12 Travel - Nicolas Kinloch (Read Article)
17 The President's Column
18 It's Murder On The Orient Express - Alf Wilkinson (Read Article)
22 Taking tea with Frau von Papen - Andrew Kirkby (Read Article)
24 Marcus Morris and...
The Historian 118: Travel
