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  • The Migration of Indians to Guiana and Surinam

      Article
    While migration from Europe to North America and elsewhere is well known, that from India is less familiar to Western readers. Ananda Dulal Sarkar provides an account of Indian migrants to the former British and Dutch Guianas. Within India, particularly during British rule, young and able-bodied males migrated hundreds of...
    The Migration of Indians to Guiana and Surinam

  • An American showman P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for all the family

      Historian article
    Refer nowadays to Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-91)—once among the most recognisable and talked about of all nineteenth century Americans— only to conjure up visions of Barnum & Bailey’s three-ring circuses, menageries, acrobats, and Jumbo the elephant. Such images tend to obscure that in 1880, on creation of the famous travelling...
    An American showman P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for all the family

  • Personality & Power: The individual's role in the history of twentieth-century Europe

      Article
    What role do individuals wielding great power play in determining significant historical change? And how do historians locate human agency in historical change, and explain it? These are the issues I would like to reflect a little upon here. They are not new problems. But they are inescapable ones for...
    Personality & Power: The individual's role in the history of twentieth-century Europe

  • The ideological contribution of 'The Times' in favour of motherhood in Great Britain between 1910–1920

      Historian article
    During the early years of the twentieth century, the New Liberals spread a political ideology which was much closer to socialism than to Victorian liberalism. Indeed, they preached State intervention in favour of social welfare, national prosperity and imperialistic strength; that social policy which logically required extra care and increased...
    The ideological contribution of 'The Times' in favour of motherhood in Great Britain between 1910–1920

  • 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

  • ‘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

  • 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

  • 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 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?

  • 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, the 1905 Russian Revolution and WWI

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    The founders of Communism, Marx and Engels, had created a set of social structures and industrial developments that were believed necessary for Communism to be achieved. Imperial Russia did not fit these conditions and yet at the start of the twentieth century Russian revolutionaries were some of the most active...
    Film: Lenin, the 1905 Russian Revolution and WWI

  • Film: Lenin's early thought

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    As Lenin’s own political outlook and beliefs developed so did the European movements of Socialism and Communism. Groups emerged that wanted to radically change society and social structures. Lenin positioned himself as one of the leaders and crucially one of the thinkers behind these new ideas and movements.  Dr Lara...
    Film: Lenin's early thought

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 Russian Revolution 100 years on: a view from below

      Historian article
    Sarah Badcock sheds light on how ordinary Russians responded to the revolutions of 1917 that sought to change their lot and bring them freedom.
    The Russian Revolution 100 years on: a view from below

  • ‘Our March’: art and culture in the Russian Revolution

      Historian article
    Peter Waldron explores the role of art in communicating to the masses the ideas of politics and change in Bolshevik Russia.
    ‘Our March’: art and culture in the Russian Revolution

  • Forbidden friendships: taverns, nightclubs, bottle bars and emancipation

      Historian article
    The modern gay-rights movement has its origins in a 1960s New York ‘bottle bar’, but as Ben Jerrit explains, drinking establishments have been centres of gay culture and social resistance for centuries. 
    Forbidden friendships: taverns, nightclubs, bottle bars and emancipation

  • 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

  • Out and About in Derry/Londonderry

      Historian feature
    Jenni Hyde was out and about in Derry in 2016 and describes how the sights of the city tell the story of a history which is so much more than just the legacy of the Troubles.
    Out and About in Derry/Londonderry