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  • The Irish historians' role and the place of history in Irish national life

      Historian article
    The debate on the nation and its history is new to England; and there is, perhaps, a tendency to assume that what is new in England is new everywhere. In Ireland, the debate has been going on since the 1970s, fuelled by what is called ‘revisionism’; or rather, by a...
    The Irish historians' role and the place of history in Irish national life

  • Caroline Court Women, 1625–1669

      Historian article
    Aristocratic women at the court of Queen Henrietta Maria from 1625–69 were integral to court life and actively involved in royal service; in court family networks; in dispensing and seeking patronage; and, in political and religious politics. As Sara J. Wolfson shows, it is important to study women at the apex of power...
    Caroline Court Women, 1625–1669

  • ‘Savages and rattlesnakes’ Washington, District of Columbia: A British Diplomat's view 1823-5

      Historian article
    Henry Unwin Addington, a nephew of the former British prime minister, Henry Addington, had joined the Foreign Office at the age of 16 in 1806. After serving in various junior diplomatic posts in Europe he learnt in 1822 that he was to be promoted to secretary of legation in Washington....
    ‘Savages and rattlesnakes’ Washington, District of Columbia: A British Diplomat's view 1823-5

  • Connecting poetry, philosophy and landscapes in Ancient China

      Historian article
    It is unusual for historians to focus primarily on poetry to provide insights into the past societies they are studying. Here Nicholas Tyldesley explains the value of poetry to help us understand the ideas, values and some important historical events in Ancient China, with a particular focus on poets Li...
    Connecting poetry, philosophy and landscapes in Ancient China

  • The Duke of Wellington and the little man on the cob

      Article
    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

  • 'The Mouth of Hell': Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, C.1660-c.1800

      Article
    Colin Haydon explores religious intolerance and conflict in an English village. In recent years, many historians have explored the subject of religious intolerance, and particularly anti-Catholic sentiment, in early modern and modern England. The political allegiance of ‘Papists’ was suspect: was not their allegiance to the Pope – to ‘another...
    'The Mouth of Hell': Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, C.1660-c.1800

  • Attitudes to Liberty and Enslavement: the career of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship surgeon and captain

      Historian article
    Prior to abolition in 1807, Britain was the world’s leading slave trading nation. Of an estimated six million individuals forcibly transported from Africa in the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, almost 2.5 million (40 per cent) were carried in British vessels.2 The contemporary attitudes and assumptions which underpinned...
    Attitudes to Liberty and Enslavement: the career of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship surgeon and captain

  • The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

      Historian article
    How did King Harold II die at the Battle of Hastings? The question is simple enough and the answer is apparently well known. Harold was killed by an arrow which struck him in the eye. His death is depicted clearly on the Bayeux Tapestry in one of its most famous...
    The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

  • The Military Historian and the Popular Image of the Western Front, 1914-1918

      Article
    Ian Beckett reviews recent revisionist interpretations of the Western Front. English teachers have much to answer for in terms of the enduring popular image of the Great War. Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves are still pressed regularly into action as if they could possibly stand representatives of the...
    The Military Historian and the Popular Image of the Western Front, 1914-1918

  • To what extent was the failure of denazification in Germany 1945-48 a result of the apathy of the allies?

      Historian article
    To blame the failure of the denazification process in postwar Germany entirely on a vague and generalised concept such as apathy is simplistic and does not stand up to serious scrutiny. Denazification was one of the most ambitious attempts ever at provoking an artificial revolution; it is reasonable to assume...
    To what extent was the failure of denazification in Germany 1945-48 a result of the apathy of the allies?

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

      Lives of medieval women
    What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives?  Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four who did: Marie de France,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

  • A-Level Essay: To what extent does the art of the Edo period of Japan reflect the contentment of the classes within its society?

      Article
    The Edo period in Japanese history fell between the years 1600 and 1867, beginning when Tokugawa Ieyatsu, a daimyo (samurai lord), became the strongest power in Japan, and ending with Tokugawa Keiki’s abdication. The Tokugawas claimed the hereditary title of Shogun, supreme governor of Japan. (The emperor had become a...
    A-Level Essay: To what extent does the art of the Edo period of Japan reflect the contentment of the classes within its society?

  • Terriers in India

      Historian Article
    Peter Stanley is working on the largely unexplored history of the thousands of British Territorial soldiers who served in India during the First World War using their letters and diaries. He is trying to discover what happened to these men when they returned to Britain. Did their service in India...
    Terriers in India

  • Film: Lenin's origins

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870. This film takes us through his middle-class origins, how he was radicalised by the world he saw around him, especially following the execution of his brother, and how the future politician and revolutionary developed amongst the extremes of Imperial Russian society. In...
    Film: Lenin's origins

  • Out and About: Kennington and the Elephant and Castle

      Historian feature
    The HA's very own Martin Hoare takes us on a tour of Kennington and Elephant and Castle, to some lesser-known gems that ought to be higher on the London tourist trail. Over the years of working for the HA I’ve quite often used my lunch break to take walks around the areas...
    Out and About: Kennington and the Elephant and Castle

  • The Spanish Collection

      Article
    For the art historian, a thorough study of works of art, their creators and the environment in which they were produced, as well as their significance then and now, is a specialised endeavour. This, nevertheless, does not exhaust the presentation of art to contemporaries, least of all in the context...
    The Spanish Collection

  • What is interesting about the Cold War?

      Article
    Almost 30 years after the end of the Cold War, diversity is suddenly galvanising the field of scholarly research into the Cold War. As the historian Federico Romero has argued, older, simpler interpretations ‘seem to be giving way to a looser understanding of the Cold War as an era that encompassed...
    What is interesting about the Cold War?

  • Louis, John, and William: the 'Dame Europa' pamphlets, 1870-1871

      Article
    The pamphlet printing industry in England received an unexpected boost in 1871 with the appearance of numerous works written, mainly, as commentaries, satires or allegories in Britain’s attitude regarding the Franco-Prussian War. The cause of this deluge was one particular tract, first issued on Salisbury in October 1870, whose purpose...
    Louis, John, and William: the 'Dame Europa' pamphlets, 1870-1871

  • Gladstone and the London May Day Demonstrators, 1890

      Historian article
    One hundred and twenty years ago the advent of the first red May Days caused major concern across Europe. To general surprise, in 1890 and the next few years some of the largest rallies occurred in London. In Britain the main demonstration on the nearest Sunday to May Day passed...
    Gladstone and the London May Day Demonstrators, 1890

  • George Eliot and Warwickshire history

      Historian article
    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

  • Film: Henry VIII and Tudor Royal Authority

      Development of Tudor Royal Authority film series
    In this film, Tracy Borman, discusses the life and career of Henry VIII. Tracy examines how Henry VIII evolved from a pleasure loving prince, raised as Henry VII's 'spare heir', to becoming a king who would come to redefine England as a nation.
    Film: Henry VIII and Tudor Royal Authority

  • Yr Ysgwrn: keeping the door open

      Historian article
    Naomi Jones describes a Welsh poet who has left a different kind of memorial to the First World War.
    Yr Ysgwrn: keeping the door open

  • The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and Europe

      Historian article
    The riches of surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscripts showcased in a fabulous new exhibition at the British Library emphasises the essential interconnections between England and the Continent.
    The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms and Europe

  • Anglo-Saxon women and power

      Historian article
    Elite Anglo-Saxon women played a powerful role in the religious affairs and politics of their day and were important patrons of learning and culture.
    Anglo-Saxon women and power

  • Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book

      Historian article
    Dave Martin interviews the author of Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions, winner of the Fawcett Prize and the Emily Toth Award.
    Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book