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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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HA Branches in the West Midlands
Branch details by region
Mid-Trent Branch
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
Nuneaton Branch Programme
HA Branches in the West Midlands
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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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Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln
Branch Podcast
On 26 November 2010, 4pm, at the National Waterfront Museum, the Swansea Branch Anniversary Lecture was delivered by Kenneth O Morgan (Baron Morgan of Aberdyfi in the County of Gwynedd) on ‘Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln'.
Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln
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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 the South West
Branch details by region
Bath Branch
Bath Branch Programme
Bristol Branch
Bristol is a very historic and lively city which was a pioneer in the HA.
What do we do? Lectures and walksWhere? University of Bristol, usually in the Woodland Road Arts Complex but please check the programme on the website for up to date...
HA Branches in the South West
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HA Branches in the North East
Branch details by region
Tyneside Branch
Tyneside Branch Programme
HA Branches in the North East
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HA Branches in the North West
Branch details by region
Bolton Branch
Branch Website: https://boltonhistoricalassociation.wordpress.com/
Bolton Branch Programme
Manchester Branch with Liverpool and Chester
Manchester Branch Programme
HA Branches in the North West
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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
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Prehistoric Bristol
Classic Pamphlet
This period is represented in the valley of the Bristol Avon by the Acheulian industries, named from the type station of St. Acheul in the Somme valley, which has yielded many ovate and pear-shaped hand-axes characteristic of the period. These industries flourished during the very long Second Interglacial phase, a...
Prehistoric Bristol
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'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
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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?
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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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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
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Tyneside Branch Programme
Article
Tyneside Branch Programme 2024
Tyneside branch activities are finished for this academic year but watch this space for a new programme for autumn 2024. For all enquiries about the branch please contact Claire Baker hatynesidebranch@gmail.com
Tyneside Branch Programme
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Cambridge Branch Programme
Article
Cambridge Branch Programme 2024-25
Enquiries to Branch President Dr Sean Lang sf_lang@hotmail.com
Wednesday 2 October 7.30pm
At the Netherhall School, Queen Edith's Way, Cambridge, CB1 8NN
'What is history for?' - an evening in honour of the late Nicolas Kinloch
Speaker: Dr Sean Lang
Saturday 23...
Cambridge Branch Programme
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Join our Speakers List
Speak to our Branches
The Historical Association was founded in 1906 with the intention of supporting everyone interested in the study and teaching of history. Today it has around 45 branches throughout the UK, and over 10,000 individual, corporate and associate members.
Each of the HA branches organises a programme of talks and events each year,...
Join our Speakers List
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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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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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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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Cleopatra Podcast
Branch Lecture Podcast
This pod-cast was recorded at the Central London Branch of the Historical Association on Saturday 20th February 2010, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London. We were pleased to welcome cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallet to the branch to speak on ‘Cleopatra'. Lucy Hughes-Hallet detailed how fact and legend about Cleopatra had been intertwined through history in...
Cleopatra Podcast
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HA Branches in Wales
Branch details by region
Cardiff Branch
For further information about Cardiff Branch meetings, please see the programme link below.
Cardiff Branch Programme
Gwent Branch
For further information about Gwent Branch meetings, please see the programme link below.
Gwent Branch Programme
Swansea Branch
The ‘catchment area' of the Swansea Branch is south-west Wales (anywhere that...
HA Branches in Wales
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East Sussex Branch Programme
Article
All meetings (except The History Day) will be held from 7-9 pm in the large upstairs room at Bibendum, 1 Grange Road, Eastbourne BN21 4EU, a short walk from the railway station.
The History Day will from 9.30 am – 2 pm on Saturday 1 June at St Saviour’s Church...
East Sussex Branch Programme
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West Wiltshire Branch Programme
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West Wiltshire Branch Programme 2024-25
Branch contact All enquiries to Mrs Jenny Ladd jladd242@gmail.com tel 01373 830514
Venue: All talks start at 7.30pm and take place in St. Thomas’ Church Hall, York Buildings, Trowbridge, Wilts. BA14 8PT. Free parking on the road, limited free parking next to Church.
Associate membership...
West Wiltshire Branch Programme
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Cornwall Branch History
Branch History
The earliest information we have about the HA in Cornwall is an Annual General Meeting minute book showing that the branch was re-formed in 1963 by schoolteachers. Lecture meetings were held in various schools and these were probably all in the Truro area. The branch always appears to have been...
Cornwall Branch History