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Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mandy Caller, mandycaller@gmail.com or telephone 07818 063594
All meetings are hybrid, and are held at 8pm on the third Thursday of the month September to April (excluding December) at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way, London NW11 6YD and simultaneously online via Zoom.
Please email Dr Dudley Miles...
Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Unless otherwise stated, all talks start at 7pm and finish no later than 8.30pm. The venue for talks is: Room 1.09, Park Building, King Henry I St, Portsmouth, PO1 2BZ. Pay on arrival: £4 per lecture, or £20 for all lectures from October to May. Students and HA members pay...
Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Merseyside Branch programme
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Branch contact: For all enquiries, please contact Dr Heather Hatton Merseysideha@gmail.com
Venue: All talks start at 6pm and take place in the Liverpool John Moores Student Life Building, room 2.06, unless otherwise stated. Address: Copperas Hill, Liverpool L3 5AJ The venue is next to Liverpool Lime Street Station and for those driving parking can be...
Merseyside Branch programme
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Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
Branch programmes
All enquiries to Ms Katie Hunter Email EdinburghandEastHA@outlook.com
Tel 07847314755 (out of working hours)
Talks USUALLY take place at 6pm in Old Medical School, Doorway 4, Edinburgh University, but always check the location of the individual event. No parking on site, good public transport.
Associate membership £20 per year. Talks...
Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
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History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021
HA branch history
This article is based on a talk originally given after the 2003 Branch AGM which drew on branch records subsequently deposited with the County Archives. These comprise AGM and committee minutes as well as notes on, and some details of, speakers for each meeting from the 1928-9 season to 1957,...
History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021
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Bristol and the Slave Trade
Classic Pamphlet
Captain Thomas Wyndham of Marshfield Park in Somerset was on voyage to Barbary where he sailed from Kingroad, near Bristol, with three ships full of goods and slaves thus beginning the association of African Trade and Bristol. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Bristol was not a place of...
Bristol and the Slave Trade
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Lincoln Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk
All talks start at 6.15pm and take place on the Brayford Pool Campus of the University of Lincoln.
To book: https://cityoflincolnbranchha.wordpress.com/lecture-programme-and-booking/.
Talks are free to national HA members, teachers and students, and University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University staff and students. Associate...
Lincoln Branch Programme
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Lincolnshire Branch History
Branch History
Brief History of the Lincolnshire Branch.When the branch was founded There was a successful branch of the Historical Association in Lincolnshire after World War Two, centred in Boston, and run by staff from the schools there. In 1999, when I moved to Lincolnshire, I discovered there was no longer a...
Lincolnshire Branch History
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Birmingham Branch History
Branch History
The Branch was founded in May 1907, a few months after the Historical Association was established. The founding Branch President was Professor John Masterman, Professor of History (1902-09) in the University of Birmingham's Department of Commerce, as it was designated in those days. He was one of several historians in...
Birmingham Branch History
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Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011
Branch History
Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011In 1964 some members of the historical Association, mostly from the West London branch, met at Maria Grey Training College in Isleworth to set up a new branch for the Richmond & Twickenham area. A Provisional Committee was formed with George Bartle, a college lecturer, as...
Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011
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The Norfolk and Norwich Branch History
Branch History
The Norfolk and Norwich Branch - a short historyThe branch was founded in 1920, at the instigation of two local teachers, W. J. Blake (the father the famous historian, Robert, Lord Blake) and Walter Stephenson, the father of our most long-serving (1941-1962) president, Andrew Stephenson, who was himself a distinguished...
The Norfolk and Norwich Branch History
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Manchester Branch History
Branch History
Manchester Branch is proud of its role in the foundation of the Historical Association (HA) in 1906. Professor Thomas Frederick Tout and others at Manchester University had been discussing the idea of forming an Association to promote the teaching of a more relevant and vibrant form of history than was...
Manchester Branch History
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Portsmouth Branch History
Branch History
See the current Portsmouth Branch programme of events
Portsmouth's Branch "Minutes Book No. 2" of the years 1946 -1981 is in the city Record Office. It records a Jubilee Dinner held in 1974: so the Branch was founded in 1924. Sadly, no "Minutes Book No. 1" has come to light....
Portsmouth Branch History
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Report on the Bristol Branch's A-level Russian History Conference
16th May 2024
The Bristol Branch of the HA’s A-level Russian History Conference27 March 2024
‘Such a great event – both for students and teachers. Many thanks…for organising it, and for sharing excellent resources’ (Mark Kauntze, Head of History Redland Green School, Bristol)
‘Brilliant, thank you… our students really enjoyed the experience.’ (Phill...
Report on the Bristol Branch's A-level Russian History Conference
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Birmingham Branch 1907-2007
Branch History
The Branch was founded in May 1907, a few months after the Historical Association was established. The founding Branch President was Professor John Masterman, Professor of History (1902-09) in the University of Birmingham's Department of Commerce, as it was designated in those days. He was one of several historians in...
Birmingham Branch 1907-2007
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Ealing Branch History
Branch History
The Ealing Branch was formed shortly after the second world war. Among its founder members was Gordon Batho, then a schoolboy at Ealing County Grammar School for Boys and now President of the Durham branch of the Historical Association and Emeritus Professor of Education at Durham University. The Ealing branch holds...
Ealing Branch History
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Swansea Branch History
Branch History
History of the Swansea BranchThe first Swansea Branch of the Historical Association was established in 1923. Unfortunately, the activities of the branch are unknown as no local documentation from that time has survived. All that is certain is that by 1925 it had ceased to meet.Following a suggestion by the...
Swansea Branch History
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Nuneaton Branch History
Branch History
The Nuneaton Branch of the H.A. was originally founded in November 1919 as one part of a county wide Warwickshire branch. Instrumental in this was the editor of the Nuneaton Chronicle, Albert Francis Cross, assisted by local doctor turned local historian, Edward Nason. After this arrangement ended Nuneaton was re-founded...
Nuneaton Branch History
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70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch
1st July 2020
In June 2020 the HA Isle of Wight branch celebrated its 70th birthday. Here, Honorary Secretary of the branch Terry Blunden looks back at the history and development of the branch since 1950.
Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906 sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on...
70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch
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Reading Branch History
Branch History
Brief outline history of the Reading Branch of the Historical AssociationReading is one of the places to have had a branch before the First World War, between 1908 and 1911 as was shown in The Historian, ‘The Branches of the Historical Association 1906-2006'. The story of the current Reading Branch,...
Reading Branch History
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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History
Branch History
History of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch of the Historical AssociationThe Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole branch of the HA was founded in December 1922 and has been in existence ever since. Its history can be followed in the annual reports sent to HQ, in the complete set of committee...
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History
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Contact your branch
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Bath
Mr M Short
01225 812 945
mikeshort20@btinternet.com
Beckenham & Bromley
Mrs A Wagstaff
020 8777 7742
BeckenhamHA@uclmail.net
Bolton
Ms Melissa Wright
07912 369060
MWright@boltonschool.org
Bournemouth
Dr R Hill
0300 100 0223
suzannah.stern@history.org.uk
Bristol
Ms M Feerick
0117 9442896
maryfeerick58@gmail.com
Buckinghamshire
Terry Bloxham
01296 708926
secretarybucksha@gmail.com
Cambridge
Dr Sean Lang...
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100 not out: the Nuneaton branch centenary
HA News
For the 2018–19 season, the Nuneaton Branch of the HA is celebrating its centenary. Founded in 1919, by 1921 there were 78 members. In 1924, members went on a ‘charabanc’ tour of Leicestershire churches, ending at Fenny Drayton, where they joined in the celebrations for the tercentenary of the birth...
100 not out: the Nuneaton branch centenary
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Swansea Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Liz McSloy FHA, Branch Secretary historyliz1565@yahoo.com 07810 304616
All meetings take place at the National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth Road, Swansea, SA1 3RD at 11am.
The museum does not have a car park but there are a number of pay and display car parks within easy walking distance...
Swansea Branch Programme
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History of the Isle of Wight Branch
Branch History
Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906, sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on the Isle of Wight. From the HA's archives, stored at Nottingham University, the annual reports indicate the Branch was formed in June 1922 and by the end of the first year there was a...
History of the Isle of Wight Branch
