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The Duke of Wellington and the little man on the cob
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On 24th March, 1843, the painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon, wrote down an odd story, told to him earlier that evening by his friend, the sculptor, John Carew. The anecdote was already at least three removes from its original source, the Duke of Wellington, and concerned events that had taken place...
The Duke of Wellington and the little man on the cob
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My grandfather's recollections of the invasion of Normandy
Historian article
16-year-old Daisy Black of Newcastle-under-Lyme School in Staffordshire was the Senior Award winner in the Spirit of Normandy Trust Young Historian competition in 2007. Having been judged the winner by the Young Historian panel, the Spirit of Normandy Trsutees were so taken with her entry that they gave her an...
My grandfather's recollections of the invasion of Normandy
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1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses
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Ian Arthurson reasseses the Cornish rising of 1497 on its 500th anniversary. On the 400th anniversary of this rebellion there was a good deal of agreement about the Wars of the Roses: ‘The slaughter of people was greater than in any former war on English soil ... The standard of...
1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses
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The Historian 68: Eighteenth Century Britain and its Empire
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 The Wonderful Land of Oz - Douglas Horlock
12 Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire - P. J. Marshall (Read Article)
18 ‘The Generous Turk’: Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes - Hugh Dunthorne (Read Article)
23 ‘The Mouth Of Hell’: Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, c.1660-c.1800 - Colin Haydon (Read Article)
The Historian 68: Eighteenth Century Britain and its Empire
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Sir William Petty: Scientist, Economist, Inventor, 1623-1687
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In December 1687 Sir William Petty, a founder member, attended the annual dinner of the Royal Society. He was obviously seriously ill and in 'greate pain' and shortly afterwards, on December 16th, he died in his house in Piccadilly, opposite St James Church. It was a quiet end to a...
Sir William Petty: Scientist, Economist, Inventor, 1623-1687
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The Historian 57: Georgian Landscape
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Georgian Landscape: 18th-century landscape design: the art that disguises art - John Cannon
10 Thomas Jefferson: an icon of American democracy reassessed - Colin Bonwick
11 Men of Genius and learning: rewriting the history of the Scottish Enlightenment - David Allan
20 Gladstone's Death and Funeral - Colin Matthew...
The Historian 57: Georgian Landscape
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The Historian 77: William the Silent
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Hungarian Nationalism in International Context - R.J.W. Evans (Read article)
13 William the Silent: the first tolerant Prince - Stephen Morse (Read article)
22 Religion and Science in the Eighteenth Century - J.P. Lethbridge (Read article)
30 Oscar Wilde: the myth of martyrdom - Trevor Fisher (Read...
The Historian 77: William the Silent
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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
The Historian 6
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Travelling the Seventeenth-Century English Economy: Rediscovery of Celia Fiennes
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Pam Sharpe reflects on the journals and expeditions of a 17th-century traveller. I first encountered Celia Fiennes (1662-1741), early modern traveller and journal writer, when I was an undergraduate. Being a keen traveller myself and studying social and economic history, Fiennes’ journeys fascinated me1. Here was a woman who travelled...
Travelling the Seventeenth-Century English Economy: Rediscovery of Celia Fiennes
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From Ashes to Icon
Historian article
Charles Stirton reflects on Middleton Hall and the creation of the National Botanic garden of Wales. Something significant is stirring in the gardening world. This year Wales will make history by opening the first national botanic garden in the third millennium. When visitors enter the new garden on the 24th...
From Ashes to Icon
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Britain and the Formation of NATO
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Carl Watts outlines the shift in British security policy and examines the role played by the Foreign Office during the post-War period. April 1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty, which came into effect in August 1949. The Cold War is over, but NATO...
Britain and the Formation of NATO
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The Slave trade and British Abolition, 1787-1807
Historian article
In the 1780’s the British slave trade thrived. In that decade alone more than one thousand British and British colonial slave ships sailed for the slave coasts of Africa and transported more than 300,000 Africans. There was little evidence that here was a system uncertain about its economic future. If...
The Slave trade and British Abolition, 1787-1807
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Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King
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On the eve of the 400th anniversary of Philip II’s death James Casey rejects the traditional portrayal of the Spanish ruler as a cruel despot and argues his achievements were more the result of an extraordinary sense of duty fully in tune with the hopes and aspirations of his people....
Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King
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The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
2 Jawaharlal Nehru: the last viceroy? - Judtih M. Brown (Read article)
8 Travelling the 17th-century English Economy: a rediscovery of Celia Fiennes - Pam Sharpe (Read article)
12 War Plan Red: The American Plan for war with Britain - John Major (Read article)
15 Photography in Korea...
The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
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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
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Ending the French Revolution
Historian article
Malcolm Crook discusses why it was so difficult to end the most famous revolution of the eighteenth century and why it led to bloodshed and absolutism.
Ending the French Revolution
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Robert Peel: Portraiture and political commemoration
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On 4 March 1856, during a debate in the House of Lords on a motion to form a ‘Gallery of National Portraits', the Conservative peer Earl Stanhope quoted Thomas Carlyle's view that ‘one of the most primary wants [of the historian is] to secure a bodily likeness of the personage...
Robert Peel: Portraiture and political commemoration
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Empires of Gold
Historian article
In 1660, the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was established under the leadership of Charles II's brother James, the Duke of York. Founded as a slaving company, the Royal African Company, as it became known, also traded in gold. African gold was mined in the interior before being...
Empires of Gold
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John Wilkes 1725-1797: A Man of Principle
Historian article
For Lord North in 1775, one John Wilkes was enough, ‘though ... to do him justice, it was not easy to find many such'. The impact of Wilkes between 1760 and 1780 was profound, a cause as much as a person. For Philip Francis, thought to be the satirist ‘Junius',...
John Wilkes 1725-1797: A Man of Principle
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Historical Diary: An Eighteenth-Century Gap Year
Historian article
Historical diaries written by children are rare and only seven from England and the United States written before 1800 are known to have survived. One of these, found tucked away in the London Metropolitan Archive, is the diary of William Hugh Burgess, a fifteen year-old boy who grew up in...
Historical Diary: An Eighteenth-Century Gap Year
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Towards Reform in 1809
Historian article
Two hundred years ago it must have seemed to some as if the time for political and economic reform in Britain had arrived. A number of the necessary conditions appeared to be in place:
recent examples from America and France showing how readily and rapidly established systems could be overturned...
Towards Reform in 1809
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The Historian 93: Abolition
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
The Pennysylvanian origins of British Abolitionism - Brycchan Carey (Read Article)
The Slave Trade and British Abolition 1787-1807 - James Walvin (Read Article)
Attitudes of liberty and enslavement: the career of James Irving a Liverpool slave ship surgeon and captain - Suzanne Schawz (Read Article)
Poetry and the industrial revolution in the...
The Historian 93: Abolition
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My Favourite History Place: The Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Historian article
Until it was overtaken in the twentieth century by Berlin and Moscow, Paris was the political, cultural and revolutionary hub around which Europe revolved. When the revolutionary Parisian crowd trudged out to Versailles in 1789 to attack the chateau and bring the king and his family back to the capital, they...
My Favourite History Place: The Musée Carnavalet, Paris
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The Historian 135: Revolution
The magazine of the Historical Association
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 ripple effect: reaching new readers
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Philip Browne tells the story of his continuing journey with an eighteenth-century sea captain.
My book had been published and for the first time I held a copy in my hand. A warm sense of achievement and relief washed over me. My work was done. Now with a little encouragement from...
The ripple effect: reaching new readers
