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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 15
Branch Publication
3. Editorial
4. National Library of Wales - Andrew Green
6. Dear Diary - Geoff Mortimer
8. The Jesus Papyrus and Swansea - Robert McCloy
11. Writing - Peter Read
12. The Printing Press in Venice - John Law
15. From their diaries
16. Book Review - Peter East
17. Many Arches Well Adorned - Andrew Prescott
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 14
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
4 Ticker Tape
5 Tareni Colliery - Clive Reed
8 Sir John Williams, Surgeon - Brinley Jones
10 Watkins, the Great Inventor - Ian Smith
12 The Guillotine - Stephanie Brown
14 Photography and Historians - John Smith
17 Opening of Glen Vivien 2016 - John...
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 13
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
4 A Royal Picnic - John Law
6 The Vivians at War - Ralph A Griffiths
7 A Good Butcher - RHV Phillips
10 The Swansea Canal - Clive Reed
12 Aberfan - Jeff Griffiths
13 Men of Steel - Mike Smith
16 Contributors - 18...
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 12
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
4 Wheels in Wales - Ian Smith
7 Civil Aviation - John Ashley
10 Wagons away - Richard Hall
13 ‘Sketty Hall’ - John Law
14 The Bus Museum - Greg Freeman
16 The Mary Herberd - Ralph Griffiths
18 Trolley Buses - Roger Atkinson
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 11
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
4 Renaissance Art - Carol David
6 Finding My Inspiration - Lucy Dean
10 Sanu's last Voyage - Ray Balkwill
13 Glynn Vivian - Andrew Green
15 A Vision of Angels - Dr John Law
17 Gwen Johns - Kenza Eastwood
18 A Gift of Sunlight...
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 10
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
5 Life as a choirboy - Max Halcox
6 The Joy of Singing - Gwyneth Anthony
11 Life in the Choir - Sid Kidwell
12 Pontnewydd Male Choir
13 Muzac - Kensa Eastwood
14 A Life in Surgery and Song - Christopher Wood
16 Swansea Bach...
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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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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 8
Branch Publication
This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorContentsAn (ex) Chairman Reflects - Dr John Law‘O Canada' - Professor Ralph GriffithsDid the Swinging 60s Reach Wales? Anthea SymondsMatters on the Move - Dr Robert McCloyWe are All Equal Here - Ian SmithThe Sixties? Alun RichardsOn the Road Again - Rod...
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 7
Branch Publication
This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorA Deeper Unrest, Richard NyeA Great War Swansea Pot Pourri, Bernard LewisThe Crimson Shadow of Mametz Wood, Giles ReesGeorge Arthur EvansHedd WynAs it Looked to Me; France and Belgium 1917, John LawThere Were Hundreds of Us in the Queue Trying to Enlist,...
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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 -...
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 5
Branch Publication
This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorEgyptian Daily Life, Karmen ThomasBes, a Friendly Demon, C. Brown-ThomasDreams & Nightmares, K SzpakowskaCunning Greeks, Evelien BraqueUp the Greek, Peter ReadMargam Stones, M. HumphriesOlympic Games, Maria StanleyWhite Rock, John AshleyEtceteraBranch Programme and Membership
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Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
Branch programmes
Branch contact: All enquiries to branch secretary Katie Hunter katie_hunter@outlook.com
Edinburgh and the East of Scotland Branch Programme 2025
Monday 27 January 2025, 6pmFootball’s Scots: The Hidden History of an Entire Footballing Nation Ged O’Brien, teacher, museum curator and sports historian.Venue: Edinburgh University, Old Medical School quadrangle on Teviot Place (known...
Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 3
Branch Publication
This edition features the following articles:Presidential LectureMemories of ChristmasONE Present!Staffordshire FiguresA Strange ChristmasItalian ChristmasesBurns NightWhite RockBook Reviews
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 2
Branch Publication
This edition features articles on the following:William RoscoeSwansea CastleWelsh BibleSt Melangell The Medieval ChurchMedieval hugher EducationDid Richard III kill Abraham Lincoln?
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 1
Branch Publication
Here it comes, hot off the press, 12 pages with a black and white cover, Chronicle No 1 Spring 2013. The first quarterly magazine of the HA Swansea and South Wales branch. Not realising that, in time, this would become almost a full time job, I had put my hand...
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 1
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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
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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
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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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HA Branches in Yorkshire and the Humber
Branch details by region
Hull & East Riding Branch
Branch Contact: Sylvia Usher (Branch Secretary) usher@usher.karoo.co.uk
Venue: The Nordic Centre, aka Danish Church, Osborne Street, Hull HU1 2PN. Small car park at the church. No charge for those attending meetings. On street parking also possible. Meetings are held on Thursdays, starting at 7.30pm
Associate membership: £12; visitors:...
HA Branches in Yorkshire and the Humber
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HA Branches in the East Midlands
Branch details by region
Leicester Branch
Joint programme with Northampton Branch
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.
Leicester branch programme
Lincoln Branch
Branch contact: enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk
Venue: All talks start at 6.15pm and take place at the Brayford Pool Campus of...
HA Branches in the East Midlands
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HA Branches in the West Midlands
Branch details by region
Mid-Trent & Mercia Branch
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.
All Branch meetings and sessions are free to HA/Branch members but there will be a small charge for visitors.
Mid-Trent Branch Programme
Nuneaton Branch...
HA Branches in the West Midlands
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American Liberalism: The Career of a Concept
Podcast
Jonathan Bell: Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at the University of Reading.What historians have come to term ‘liberalism' in an American context has taken on numerous meanings that provide a lens through which to examine broad trends in US history across the twentieth century. From the...
American Liberalism: The Career of a Concept
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Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?
Podcast
2012 Annual Conference Presidential Lecture
Charles I: The People's Martyr?
Jackie Eales, HA President and Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University
Charles I was renowned for his distrust of ‘popularity'. Yet during the 1640s he was forced to appeal to his people for support and in...
Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?
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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
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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