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Starting a new Branch
Organising and running an HA branch
The Historical Association and its branches
Branches have been an essential part of the Historical Association since it began. They exist in all parts of the United Kingdom and take a variety of forms.
A branch provides a local forum to bring together all those with an interest in history:...
Starting a new Branch
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Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme
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Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme 2024-25
All meetings are held at 11am on the second Saturday of the month at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Observatory Road, Glasgow West End G12 9AR.
For any branch enquiries please telephone Marie Davidson on 0141 956 1172
12 October 2024
Emile...
Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme
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Cardiff Branch Programme
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Cardiff Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch contact All enquiries to Professor Peter Edbury Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk
Venue: All talks are on Zoom and free to all.
Putting Welsh History on Television Wednesday 13th November 2024 Time: 7pm
Venue: Via Zoom
Description: Producer of the epoch-making television history of Wales "The Dragon has Two Tongues"(1985) voiced...
Cardiff Branch Programme
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North-West Ulster Branch Programme
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North-West Ulster Branch Programme 2023-24
chairman: Jim McBride, j.mcbride@talk21.com;
secretary: Emmet O’Connor, pej.oconnor@ulster.ac.uk
treasurer: tba
board members: James McQuillan, Andrew Maguire, Will Burton
Over the academic year 2023-24 the branch intends to organize the following lectures to support AS and A2 level (CCEA) History students preparing for their...
North-West Ulster Branch Programme
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Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Portsmouth Branch Programme 2024-25
Venue for talks: Room 2.01 Park Building, King Henry I St, Portsmouth PO1 2BZ.
All talks start at 7pm and finish no later than 8.30pm.
Pay on arrival: £4 per lecture, or £20 for all lectures October to May. Students and HA members free. No need...
Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Essex Branch History
Branch History
Essex Branch - Early DaysEssex Branch was founded in 1920 or earlier and was active continuously until 1936. In 1920-1 the president was H. de Havilland of The Manor House, Great Horkesley, and the secretary Mr. E.T. Baldwin of Earls Colne Grammar School. There were 56 branch members and 8...
Essex Branch History
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Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme 2024-25
Meetings 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.
Some lectures are also on Zoom. See below for details.
The cost of local membership is...
Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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Plymouth Branch Programme
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Plymouth Branch Programme 2024-25
Website: http://www.ha-plymouth.org.uk
Contact: Alan H. Cousins, 1 Russell Court, Russell Close, Saltash PL12 4LZ , Tel. 01503 230106 a.cousins345@btinternet.com
Meetings are open to all, and are free for national or local members of the Historical Association, and for University of Plymouth students.
Visitor tickets: £6,...
Plymouth Branch Programme
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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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Nuneaton Branch Programme
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Nuneaton Branch Programme 2024-25
Contact: michael.arnold@cantab.net
Venue: Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre, 4 Avenue Road, Nuneaton CV11 4LU unless otherwise stated.
Time: 7.30pm unless otherwise indicated
Twitter / X: @Nuneaton_HA
Facebook: Nuneaton Historical Association
25 September 2024
The History of Food in England
Prof. Diana Purkiss, Oxford University
10...
Nuneaton Branch Programme
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Mid-Trent & Mercia Branch Programme
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Mid-Trent & Mercia Branch Programme 2024-25
Further details can always be obtained from Trevor James on 01543-258434 or Sylvia Clifford on 01283-536250
Venues and times are listed with each meeting.
30 September 2024, 10.30am -12.30pm at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall B73 6DA
Very Modern History: Further Insight into Modern-day Belarus
presentation...
Mid-Trent & Mercia Branch Programme
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Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History
Branch History
The Branch is proud of its role in the foundation of the Historical Association 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 currently...
Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History
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Hull & East Riding Branch History
Branch History
The origins of the Hull branch of the HA go back to 1921. However the branch really came to life when Dr Fred Brooks arrived as Reader in Medieval History at the new University College of Hull. From 1930 to 1977 he was the mainspring of the activities and growth...
Hull & East Riding 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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Exeter & District Branch Programme
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Exeter & District Branch Programme 2023-24
All enquiries to Suzannah.Stern@history.org.uk
Tuesday 14 November 2023 4.15 p.m.
Event in association with Exeter School
Exeter School, Exeter, Andrews Hall 4.15 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Claire McCallum, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Russian History, College of Humanities, University of Exeter
Topic: Everyday...
Exeter & District Branch Programme
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Essex Branch Programme
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Essex Branch Programme 2024 - 25
Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB. Please check the calendar on this website for details.
Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed - £3, Associate Members fee £10.00 / £15.00 for 2 members at same address
Branch Contact: Tony Tuckwell...
Essex Branch Programme
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Bath Branch Programme
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Bath Branch Programme 2024-25
Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture.
For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945.
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Bath Branch Programme
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Canterbury Branch Programme
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Canterbury Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch contact: All enquiries to Mike Gallagher – mike.gallagher79@yahoo.co.uk
Venue: All talks start at 7.00pm at venues in Canterbury (specified below).
Associate membership £10 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors £5.
Twitter @CanterburyHA
Tuesday 10th September 2024, 4.30pm
Committee Meeting...
Canterbury Branch Programme
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Sheffield Branch Programme
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Sheffield Branch Programme 2024-25
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Grayson Building, Birkdale School, Oakholme Road, S10 3DH. Entrance via the Endcliffe Crescent gate. Parking available.
Meetings are usually held on the first or second Thursday of the month, doors will open at 7pm and the lecture will start at 7.30pm promptly...
Sheffield Branch Programme
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Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme
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Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £2.00 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £14.00 per year.
All Meetings begin at 8pm and take place at Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant Road, Richmond upon Thames,TW9 1DH. Quadrant Road is between Specsavers and Lloyds Bank on the Quadrant.
Meetings...
Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme
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Isle of Wight Branch Programme
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Branch contact: All enquiries to Caroline Jacobs jacobscme@gmail.com tel: 07988 171 708
Venue: All talks take place at Newport Minster, St Thomas’ Square, NEWPORT, IW PO30 1BG, starting at 7.30pm and finishing at approximately 9.00pm, unless otherwise stated. Doors open at 7.00pm
Associate membership: £10 per year. Talks free to...
Isle of Wight Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch contact All enquiries to Mrs Melissa Wright mwright@boltonschool.org.uk 07912369060
Venue: All talks start at 6.30pm on (mostly) the first Monday of the month, and take place in the Leverhulme Suite @ Bolton School Girls’ Division, Chorley New Road, Bolton, BL1 4PA. Parking...
Bolton Branch Programme
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History of the Cumbria Branch
Branch History
Cumbria Branch was founded in November 1971 as a result of a very successful tour of Hadrian's Wall, led by Peter Southern. We decided we needed a more permanent influence of the H.A. in Carlisle and Cumbria. There had been a Carlisle Branch earlier in the C20th but it folded...
History of the Cumbria Branch
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Reading Branch History
Branch History
Brief outline history of the Reading Branch of the Historical Association
Reading 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...
Reading Branch History
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Envoi: First World War Memories
Branch podcast
During the recent First World War centenary many HA branches held lectures and talks about a variety of aspects of the war. Some had outings and many looked at their local war memorials or Pals Battalions. The Glasgow and West of Scotland Branch decided that as many of their members...
Envoi: First World War Memories
