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Out and About in Oxford
Historian feature
The Sheffield Branch of the Historical Association is a very active one. In addition to our monthly meetings we organise a range of study visits, from one-day trips to longer residential tours in the UK and occasionally in mainland Europe. In recent years, these have included visits to Portsmouth, Lincoln and Newark, Newcastle and Northumberland, and the battlefields of Waterloo....
Out and About in Oxford
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Support your branch: FAQs
Volunteering to help your local branch
Our local branches are all run by volunteers. Joining your local branch committee can be a wonderful way to get more involved with history.
What roles are there within each branch?
Each branch has three formal branch officers: the Chair (or President), the Branch Secretary and the Branch Treasurer.
Alongside those...
Support your branch: FAQs
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Norfolk & Norwich Branch Programme
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Norfolk and Norwich Branch Programme 2024 - 25
Branch Contact: norwichha@gmail.com
Venue: Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Castle Hill, Norwich, NR1 3JUThe September relaunch event will be free. Events/Tours/Walks subsequently will be charged at £5 per event or an annual regional membership fee of £15. These fees will apply...
Norfolk & Norwich Branch Programme
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Taunton Deane Branch Programme
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Taunton Deane Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch Contact: All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson gb@queenscollege.org.uk tel. 01823 353749
Venue: All talks start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and take place in the Birchall Hall, Queen's College, Trull Road, Taunton, TA1 4QS unless otherwise stated. There is free car parking on site....
Taunton Deane Branch Programme
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Leicester Branch Programme
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Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2024-25
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.
10th September 2024. Dr Lubaaba...
Leicester Branch Programme
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West Surrey Branch Programme
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Hon. Secretary: Rollo Crookshank. Telephone: 01252 319881. Email: crookshankrollo@gmail.com
Entry to meetings is free for HA members and students. Associate membership of the branch which gives free entry to all meetings is £15 per year. Non-members £5 per meeting, payable at the door.
All meetings start at 7.30pm...
West Surrey Branch Programme
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Ealing Branch Programme
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Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT, at 7.30pm, with the exception of the November meeting which takes place at Twyford School at 6.30 pm. Talks are live events but with the speaker’s permission we aim to make a recording...
Ealing Branch Programme
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Become a Branch Officer
Support the HA through this vital role
To begin with the obvious, the life-blood of any branch is its membership. However, that life-blood needs a heart to ensure the vitality of the branch, and that heart is the branch committee: a group of dedicated individuals who regularly give their time and effort to the smooth running of...
Become a Branch Officer
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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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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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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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Winchester Branch Programme
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Winchester Branch Programme 2024-25
All enquiries to Branch Secretary Eleanor Yates – email historicalassocwinchester@outlook.com or text or call 07973 427915
Lectures will be at 7.30pm. The venue is The Science Lecture Theatre, Kingsgate Street, Winchester SO23 9PG, and sometimes online additionally.
Lectures are free to members and students, visitors...
Winchester Branch Programme
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HA Branches in Yorkshire and the Humber
Branch details by region
Hull & East Riding Branch
Hull & East Riding Branch Programme
Sheffield Branch
Sheffield Branch Programme
York & North Yorkshire Branch
The Branch runs YorkCluio meetings of local history teachers, and also YorkClio 'History Nerds', a group for young historians.
York & North Yorkshire Branch Programme
HA Branches in Yorkshire and the Humber
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Central London Branch Programme
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Central London Branch Programme 2024-25
President: Vacancy
Honorary Vice-Presidents: Professor David Stevenson, Mrs Chrissie Ganjou
Vice-Chairs: Jill Kilsby, Hedley Sutton
Programme Secretary: Thabo Stuck
Treasurer: Jill Kilsby
Lectures start at 14:00h (2pm) on Saturdays at St. Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Street, W1D 6AF, Allen Room, first floor...
Central London Branch Programme
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Swansea Branch Programme
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Swansea Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch Contact: Liz McSloy, Secretary historyliz1565@yahoo.com
Venue: National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth Rd, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 3RD
All talks take place on the third Saturday of each month (unless otherwise stated) and start at 11am
Associate membership: £10 per year, Concessionary (part time workers, retired, unwaged)...
Swansea Branch Programme
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HA Branches in the East Midlands
Branch details by region
Leicester Branch
Leicester branch programme
Lincoln Branch
Lincoln Branch Programme
Northampton Branch
Northampton Branch Programme / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
Nottingham Branch
Nottingham Branch Programme
HA Branches in the East Midlands
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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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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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Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)
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Manchester Branch Programme 2024-25
Entry to meetings is free to HA members, non-members £4 per meeting.
We are delighted to be able to welcome our members and interested members of the public to our 2024 – 2025 series of events. Of course, circumstances are always changeable and events may...
Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)
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HA Branches in the South East
Branch details by region
Beckenham & Bromley Branch
Branch website: http://www.beckenham-historical-association.org/
Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
Buckinghamshire Branch
Buckinghamshire Branch Programme
Canterbury Branch
Canterbury Branch Programme
Chichester Branch
Chichester Branch Programme
East Sussex Branch
East Sussex Branch Programme / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
Isle of Wight Branch
Isle of Wight Branch...
HA Branches in the South East
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HA Branches in Northern Ireland
Branch details by region
North West Ulster Branch
Over the academic year, the Branch organises lectures to support AS and A2 level History students preparing for their examinations. The venue is normally St Columb's College, Derry
See the North-West Ulster Branch Programme
HA Branches in Northern Ireland
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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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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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Joan of Arc: Woman Warrior, Witch
Branch Podcast
In 2011 Professor Anne Curry, President of the Historical Association, gave a lecture on Joan of Arc to the Swansea Branch. This is a podcast of that lecture.
Joan of Arc: Woman Warrior, Witch
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Ferninando Gorges and New England
Classic Pamphlet
Sir Ferdinando Gorges (July 1565 - May 24, 1647), by some considered the "Father of English Colonization in North America", was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622, although Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges was born...
Ferninando Gorges and New England
