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  • The last battle: Bomber Command’s veterans and the fight for remembrance

      Historian article
    Frances Houghton examines how and why the popular memory of the Second World War continues to be contested. Early on the morning of Monday 21 January 2019, still-wet white gloss paint was discovered to have been thrown across the Bomber Command Memorial in London’s Green Park. The bronze sculpture of a...
    The last battle: Bomber Command’s veterans and the fight for remembrance

  • Film: Veteran Mervyn Kersh Talks about his experience of World War II

      An HA film to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day
    Mervyn Kersh was a young man from South London whose army service included arriving into Normandy in the first few days of the invasion, crossing the Rhine and being a British Jewish serviceman in Germany when the war ended. In this film released to commemorate VE Day Mervyn describes his...
    Film: Veteran Mervyn Kersh Talks about his experience of World War II

  • Woodland in the East Staffordshire landscape

      Historian article
    Richard Stone explains that the natural landscape can be a resource for anyone exploring local topography. The idea for researching this topic came while reading Oliver Rackham’s excellent Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape. Calculations based on woodland recorded in Domesday Book revealed my home county of Staffordshire, with...
    Woodland in the East Staffordshire landscape

  • The burial dilemma

      Historian article
    The recent attacks on Karl Marx’s grave in Highgate Cemetery have added impetus to the public debate about how we memorialise the dead and the public and private costs of mourning.
    The burial dilemma

  • Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe

      Historian article
    Trevor James emphasises the importance of this structure in England’s sporting landscape. Tucked behind the houses in Havelock Road in the East Croydon suburb of Addiscombe is a seemingly unprepossessing building, known locally as ‘Havelock Hall’. Now converted into flats, it derives its name from its late nineteenth-century religious use,...
    Havelock Hall: the East India Company college gymnasium at Addiscombe

  • The Waggoners’ Memorial

      Historian article
    Paula Kitching introduces a very remarkable First World War memorial to a specific group of Yorkshire workers.
    The Waggoners’ Memorial

  • Good Evening Sweetheart

      Historian article
    The talk given by Sue and Pete Mowforth to the Glasgow Branch, reading from a selection of their parents’ war-time letters, resulted in a flurry of media interest from the national press and radio, including an appearance on the BBC’s The One Show in February 2017. Olga and Cyril Mowforth married in June...
    Good Evening Sweetheart

  • The German prisoner-of-war camp in Dorchester

      Historian article
    Dave Martin investigates why there is a war memorial for German soldiers, ‘buried in a foreign field’, in a Dorset churchyard.
    The German prisoner-of-war camp in Dorchester

  • A year in the life of a branch coordinator

      Historian article
    Jenni Hyde takes us through an exciting year with the Bolton Branch and provides some great ideas for other branch secretaries.
    A year in the life of a branch coordinator

  • The initial impact of the Battle of Jutland on the people of Portsmouth

      Historian article
    This local study by Steve Doe draws together the human effects of what happened at the Battle of Jutland in June 1916 with accounts of how the families of those who fought in the battle and the wider local community dealt with the tragedy.
    The initial impact of the Battle of Jutland on the people of Portsmouth

  • Short guides to Records

      Multipage Article
    A series of short guides to different types of public and other records, including rate books, wills, probate inventories and poll books.
    Short guides to Records

  • The use of personal heritage in education

      Personal Heritage in Education
    In this podcast Dr Nick Barratt discusses the use of personal heritage in education.
    The use of personal heritage in education

  • Robert Branford: a faithful servant of Southwark

      Historian article
    Stephen Bourne explains how he pieced together the story of Robert Branford, the earliest known mixed-race officer in the Metropolitan Police, who faithfully served the people of Southwark in the Victorian era.
    Robert Branford: a faithful servant of Southwark