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The Historian 95: An American showman
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
The 2007 Medlicott Medal Lecture: What kind of history should school history be? Chris Culpin (Read article)
P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for the family - John Springhall (Read Article)
Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign - Trevor Fisher (Read Article)
Presenting Naseby: Documents, terrain, findings and...
The Historian 95: An American showman
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The Historian 96: What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy?
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy? The soldier in later medieval England - Adrian R Bell, Adam Chapman, Anne Curry, Andy King and David Simpkin (Read Article)
Upwards till Lepanto: The Ottoman Turks in early modern Europe - Sarah Newman (Read article)
The Death of Lord...
The Historian 96: What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy?
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Out and about in Holderness
Historian feature
East of Hull lies Holderness, a twohundred square mile portion of the former East Riding of Yorkshire, extending from Hornsea in the north to Spurn Head and flanked by the river Humber and the North Sea. It is a very fertile tract of rich agricultural countryside but it is particularly...
Out and about in Holderness
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The death of Lord Londonderry
Historian article
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
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Upwards till Lepanto
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Ottoman society centred on the Sultan. He was lawgiver, religious official, leader in battle-and until the late sixteenth century an active field commander on campaign. The Law of Fratricide of Mehmet (Mohammed) II, 1451-81, urged each new Sultan to kill his brothers in order to produce a capable ruler and...
Upwards till Lepanto
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The soldier in Later Medieval England
Historian article
Traditionally, the Middle Ages have been portrayed as the ‘Feudal Age', when men were given land in return for performance of unpaid military service. Whilst this may have formed the basis of the English military system in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it was most certainly not the way armies...
The soldier in Later Medieval England
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The Historian 60: The Knights Templars
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 The Rise and Fall of The Knights Templars - Malcolm Barber (Read article)
10 The Resistible Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte - Malcolm Crook (Read article)
16 The Pilgrimage of Grace - Michael Bush (Read article)
21 The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899 (Read article)
The Historian 60: The Knights Templars
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The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Vichy France and the Jews - Julian Jackson (Read article)
10 The Press and the Public during the Boer War - Jacqueline Beaumont Hughes (Read article)
16 Cambridge - Elisabeth Leedham-Green (Read article)
21 The Vikings in Britain - Henry Loyn
The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War
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The Historian 62: Catherine de Medici
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Is History Dangerous? - Eric Hobsbawm (Read article)
6 Britain and the formation of NATO - Carl Watts (Read article)
12 Sir William Petty: Scientist, Economist, Inventor 1623-87 - John Adams (Read article)
15 Durham: a personal perspective - G.R. Batho (Read article)
18 Catherine de Medici and the...
The Historian 62: Catherine de Medici
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The Historian 63: Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War? - Professor The Earl Russell (Conrad Russell) (Read article)
10 What's new about 'New Labour'? - Andrew Thorpe (Read article)
16 1939 after sixty years - Patrick Finney (Read article)
22 Louis, John and William: The 'Dame Europa'...
The Historian 63: Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?
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The Historian 65: Cooling Memories
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Featured articles:
4 From Ashes to Icon: The creation of the National Botanic Garden of Wales - Charles Stirton (Read article)
10 Wanted, The elusive Charlie Peace: A Sheffield killer of the 1870s as popular hero - Dr John Springhall (Read article)
17 Cooling memories: Why we still remember Scott...
The Historian 65: Cooling Memories
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The Historian 66: Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 The Value of Biography in History - Antonia Fraser (Read Article)
10 Cholera and the fight for Public Health Reform in mid-Victorian England - Dr Geoff Gill MA, MSc, MD, FRCP (Read Article)
17 Ottawa: Canada's evolving capital - John Talyor
22 Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr...
The Historian 66: Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr
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The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 William Morris, art and the rise of the British Labour movement - Chris Wrigley (Read Article)
11 Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb - Z.A.B. Zeman (Read Article)
18 Bombing and the air war on the Italian Front 1915-1918 - A.D. Harvey (Read Article)
22 The reign of Edward VI:...
The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement
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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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The Historian 70: Myth and Reality: A necessary marriage at 12th Century Glastonbury
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Novelty and Amusement? Visiting the Georgian Country House - Richard Wilson (Read Article)
10 The Tower and The Victorians: Politics and Leisure - Peter Hammond (Read Article)
15 The Duke of Wellington and the little man on the cob - Patrick Abbott (Read Article)
18 Myth and...
The Historian 70: Myth and Reality: A necessary marriage at 12th Century Glastonbury
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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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The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics
The magazine of the Historical Association
2 The birth of the modern Olympics - Michael Biddiss (Read article)
8 The insanity of Henry VI - Carole Rawcliffe (Read article)
13 Trewarthenick, Cornwall: the ancestral home of the Gregor family - Christine North (Read article)
16 Minority Rights and Wrongs in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century -...
The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics
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The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire
The magazine of the Historical Association
Napoleon III - only one article of this journal remains. Open the attachment below to read the article.
The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire
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The Historian 53: Queen Victoria
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
Queen Victoria - Dorothy Thompson (Read article)
The Era of Dictators Reconsidered - Kenneth Thomson (Read article)
The Military Historian and the Western Front - Ian Beckett
The Migration of Indians to Guiana and Surinam - Ananda Dulal Sakar (Read article)
Open the attachment below to read the...
The Historian 53: Queen Victoria
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The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
Handing back Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997 - Andrew Whitfield (Read article)
Elizabeth I - Susan Doran
Western Dress and Ambivelence in the South Pacific - Michael Sturma (Read article)
The Middle East in WWII and the British Co-operation with the Zionist Agency - Nicholas Hammond
Painted Advertisements...
The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong
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The Historian 55: Arthur, Prince of Wales and his training for kingship
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Featured articles:
Arthur Prince of Wales,
Jane Austen: a Writer for all Seasons - Irene Collins (Read article)
The Spanish Armada of...1597? - Graham Darby (Read article)
Cartooning King Cotton - Alan Fowler and Terry Wyke (Read article)
From Disraeli to Callaghan, Britain 1879 to 1979 - A.J.P. Taylor (Read article)...
The Historian 55: Arthur, Prince of Wales and his training for kingship
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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 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 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 71: The English Historian's Role
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
16 The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism - Mark Rathbone (Read article)
22 A Social History of the Welsh Language - Geraint H. Jenkins (Read article)
29 Gallipoli Memorial, Eltham - Sarah Newman (Read article)
The Historian 71: The English Historian's Role
