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  • Canterbury Branch Programme

      Article
    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  Canterbury Branch Programme 2025 Wednesday 8th January 2025History at University: a day of events...
    Canterbury Branch Programme

  • Nottingham Branch History

      Article
    A major feature of the Historical Association's branches has been their strong links with a variety of voluntary organisations focused on, or with interests in, history.  The Association's initial aims drawn up in June 1906 included 'Co-operation for common objects with the English Association, the Geographical Association, the Modern Language...
    Nottingham Branch History

  • From our branches: Were we quite mad? Establishing the East Sussex Branch

      Historian feature
    John Oliphant gives us the lowdown on the Historical Association’s new East Sussex Branch, describing the tribulations faced by its committee before a lecture on Oliver Cromwell in September 2024 marked a successful start to the new academic year...
    From our branches: Were we quite mad? Establishing the East Sussex Branch

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 6

      Branch Publication
    This edition features articles on the following:Margaret McCloy - Letter from the EditorAndrew Green - Wales Coast PathCopper Ore Barques SponsorsMark Williams - The Falkland IslandsTrevor Fishlock - AfghanistanEna Niedergang - Griffith John and WuhanRobert Leonard - Peripatetic PottersJohn Ashley - Ethiopian TravelsSid Kidwell - Edgar EvansDr Fred Cowley -...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 6

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 4

      Branch Publication
    This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorNineteenth Century FactsThe Cry for Meaning, Richard NyeThe Nineteenth CenturyThe Merthyr Rising, Steffan ap-DaffydPembrokeshire Slate in the 19th Century, Alan John RichardsAnn of Swansea, Caroline FranklinBook Review, Neath Antiquarian Volume 2Stalin, Hitler and Mr JonesLetter and Book ReviewRobert Burns 1759 - 1796,...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 4

  • Show and Tell: three Branch book events

      Historian article
    When members of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Branch were invited to share their views on ‘Books that Changed History’, not all the contributions were as overtly revolutionary as Thomas Paine’s Common Sense nor as familiar as the King James Bible. Marie Davidson and Richard Binns tell us more....
    Show and Tell: three Branch book events

  • Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

      Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
    In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
    Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

  • Women in Late Medieval Bristol

      Classic Pamphlet
    During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Bristol was one of England's greatest towns, with a population of perhaps 100,000 after the Black Death of 1348. Its status was recognised in 1373, with its creation as the realm's first provincial urban county, but only in 1542, with the creation of the...
    Women in Late Medieval Bristol

  • Exeter Branch History

      Branch History
    A Brief History of the Exeter BranchExeter was one of the seventeen pre-First World War branches, founded in November 1906, the same year as the Historical Association itself. The Exeter branch was founded by Professor Walter (W.J.) Harte who became President of the (national) Historical Association 1932-36. Harte was appointed...
    Exeter Branch History

  • Bristol and America 1480-1631

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet addresses the relationship between Bristol and America, charting the rising and waning interest the city and its merchants had in discovering new lands and profiting from them, and the success or more often the failure of these voyages. It provides an interesting argument which may be seen to...
    Bristol and America 1480-1631

  • War, Society and the State in Early Modern Europe

      Podcast
    Lecture from the 2012 HA Annual Conference  Frank Tallett: Fellow in History at the University of Reading and former Head of its School of Humanities Until recently, military history has largely been concerned with ‘badges and buttons', an approach that stressed tactics, strategy and weapons. The so-called New Military History has sought...
    War, Society and the State in Early Modern Europe

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Historical Causation: Is One Thing More Important Than Another?

      Branch Lecture Podcast
    WHAT COLOUR ARE THE UNICORNS?Professor Steve Rigby, recently retired from the University of Manchester, delivered ‘Historical Causation: Is One Thing More Important Than Another?' to the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on 29th November 2010.  His lecture gives a fascinating introduction to the philosophy of historical causation, looking at...
    Historical Causation: Is One Thing More Important Than Another?

  • Conwy Borough Branch Programme

      Branch programmes
    Branch Contact: Gemma Campbell conwyboroughha@gmail.com    Meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at Sheldons, 8 Penrhyn Rd, Colwyn Bay LL29 8LG unless otherwise stated.  Refreshments will be available to purchase (payment not included with the talk).   Doors open at 6.30 for refreshments and networking, talks begin at...
    Conwy Borough Branch Programme

  • Bolton Branch Birthday

      Bolton Branch News
    Renowned historian Professor Sir Ian Kershaw joined the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on 1 October 2007 to help celebrate their 80th anniversary. An audience of 185 people listened to his lecture on ‘The German People and the Persecution of the Jews', which examined the attitudes of the German...
    Bolton Branch Birthday

  • Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

      Churchill's Great Game
    In this HA Virtual Branch talk Professor Richard Toye explores Churchill’s response to the USSR and how his actions during the early Cold War years intersected with his views of traditional Anglo-Russian tensions and the legacy of the ‘Great Game’. Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University...
    Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

  • Film: Foreign Intervention in the Cold War

      Branch Lecture: Nuneaton Branch
    This filmed Branch Lecture entitled "Foreign Intervention in the Cold War" features Dr Volker Prott of Aston University. In his talk, Dr Prott, looks at three international crises of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Congo Crisis, the Kashmir dispute and the Indo Pakistan conflict over East Pakistan/Bangladesh. Dr Prott examines when, why and...
    Film: Foreign Intervention in the Cold War

  • Leicester Branch Programme

      Article
    Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2024-25  Leicester Chair: Annabelle Larsen leicesterha@gmail.com Northampton Chair: David Waller david@davidwaller.org.uk Most talks will be on the second Tuesday of the month, 18.00-19.30.    ** POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE 2025** David Waller, University of Northampton. ‘The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election in Historical Perspective’....
    Leicester Branch Programme

  • 'Modernising Calcutta' by Professor Anindita Ghosh: filmed branch lecture

      Watch the HA's first live-streamed branch lecture
    On 3 December 2018, the Bolton Branch marked a first for the HA by live-streaming a lecture on Twitter. Professor Anindita Ghosh of the University of Manchester spoke to the branch on Calcutta in the 19th century. The event was streamed live on the branch’s Twitter feed, @boltonhistory. Watch the lecture here (NB external website, opens...
    'Modernising Calcutta' by Professor Anindita Ghosh: filmed branch lecture

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 18

      Branch publication
    3. Editorial 4. The Marriage at Cana – Dr John Law 8. Stinging Nettle Soup – Trevor Fishlock 10. Dining with Dylan – Peter Read 12. Carbs with Everything – Ian Smith 14. Life as I Found it – John Russell & John Ashley 17. Masonic Dining Swansea – Professor...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 18

  • Bristol Branch Programme

      Article
    Please contact Mary Feerick Secretary maryfeerick58@gmail.com or 0117 9442898 for further details or use our website https://bristolha.wordpress.com Annual branch membership is £15. All lectures are free to National HA members as well as University of Bristol staff & all students. Guests pay £3 on the door for a single lecture. ...
    Bristol Branch Programme

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 17

      Branch Publication
    3. Editorial4. Patagonia - Trevor A. Johnson6. The Significance of Migration - Anita Arcari8. The Highland Clearances - John Easton Law11. Emigration to New Zealand - Rosemary Harvard Jones13. Branch News 15. Jews in Wales - Leonard Mars17. Joe’s Gelato - Lucy Hughes19. Unity in Diversity - Natalie Paisey
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 17

  • Reading Branch Programme

      Article
    Branch Contact: All enquiries to Chris Sexton sexton44@gmail.com 07957 184342. Venue: Lecture Theatre, Reading School, Erleigh Road, Reading RG1 5LW (gate code essential and obtainable from above contact). Associate Membership: £10 per annum, Lectures free to national and associate HA members, students and school pupils. Visitors £3 per lecture. (Fees...
    Reading Branch Programme