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Bath
Mr M Short
01225 812 945
mikeshort20@btinternet.com
Beckenham & Bromley
Mrs A Wagstaff
020 8777 7742
BeckenhamHA@uclmail.net
Bolton
Ms Melissa Wright
07912 369060
MWright@boltonschool.org
Bournemouth
Dr R Hill
0300 100 0223
suzannah.stern@history.org.uk
Bristol
Ms M Feerick
0117 9442896
maryfeerick58@gmail.com
Buckinghamshire
Terry Bloxham
01296 708926
secretarybucksha@gmail.com
Cambridge
Dr Sean Lang...
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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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Cardiff Branch Programme
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Cardiff Branch Programme 2025-26
All enquiries to Professor Peter Edbury Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk or Dr Paul Webster WebsterP@cardiff.ac.uk
All talks start at 7pm via Zoom or Teams. A link to the talk is provided by email from Dr Webster.
All talks are free and Zoom/Teams allow us to have speakers...
Cardiff Branch Programme
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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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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
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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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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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All enquiries to Mrs Marie Davidson davidsonmh@googlemail.com tel 01419561172
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.
Associate membership £20 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors £5.
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Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme
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Gwent Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Tessa Merrett tessamerrett@gmail.com 01495 225752
Meetings are held at St Augustine’s Church Hall (immediately behind the church), Commercial Street, Pontllanfraith, Blackwood, NP12 2JG
There is a large free car park next to the church and church hall. The entrance to the car park is off the roundabout...
Gwent Branch Programme
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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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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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Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mandy Caller, mandycaller@gmail.com or telephone 07818 063594
All meetings are hybrid, and 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 and simultaneously online via Zoom.
Please email Dr Dudley Miles...
Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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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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Mid-Trent Branch Programme
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Further details can always be obtained from Trevor James on 01543-258434 (trevorjamescroydon@gmail.com) or Sylvia Clifford on 01283-536250
Venues and times are listed with each meeting.
Mid-Trent Programme 2025 - 26
29 September 2025
Very Modern History: Professor Roger Ward on Neville Chamberlain
10.30am -12.30pm Sutton Coldfield Town Hall B73 6DA...
Mid-Trent Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch History
Branch History
The Bolton Branch of the Historical Association, having been founded in 1927, celebrated its 80th birthday suitably spectacularly in October 2007. Not only did it have, for the occasion, a distinguished Chief Guest as visiting lecturer, and an audience of nearly 200, but it also had a large, decorative and...
Bolton Branch History
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Norfolk & Norwich Branch Programme
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Norfolk & Norwich Programme 2025 - 26
For all enquiries, please contact Simon Kinder norwichha@gmail.com
Venue: Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6EA
HA members free, visitors £10 per event. Branch Associate membership is £15 per year.
Sunday 19 October 2025, 2.15pm for a 2.30pm start
Venue: Gresham’s Senior...
Norfolk & Norwich 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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Sheffield Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Janine Baigent janine.baigent@hotmail.com
Meetings are held at the Lecture Theatre, Grayson Building, Birkdale School, Oakholme Road, S10 3DH. Entrance via the Endcliffe Grange Crescent gate. Parking available.
Date is usually the first or second Thursday of the month, doors will open at 7 pm and the...
Sheffield Branch Programme
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HA Branches in the South East
Branch details by region
Beckenham & Bromley Branch
Branch contact: Mrs A Wagstaff 020 8777 7742 BeckenhamHA@uclmail.net
Cost: Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors.
Associate membership of the branch is £12 for 2024/25 or £19.50 with our monthly news bulletin, The Beckenham Historian.
Venue: All meetings take place at...
HA Branches in the South East
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Bolton Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mrs Melissa Wright mwright@boltonschool.org.uk 07912369060
All talks start at 6.30pm on the first Monday of the month (except Sept & Jan), and takes place in the Sutcliffe Suite, Bolton School Girls’ Division, Bolton School, Chorley New Road, Bolton BL1 4PA. Free parking is available in the Girls...
Bolton Branch Programme
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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
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Central London Branch Programme
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For all enquires and for events where pre-booking is required, please contact:
Jill Kilsby MA, MBA, 8 Purley Oaks Road, Sanderstead, Surrey, CR2 ONP
Email: jillkilsby2012@live.co.uk | Tel: 07957 627783
Branch President: Vacancy
Honorary Vice-Presidents: Professor David Stevenson, Mrs Chrissie Ganjou
Vice-Chairs: Jill Kilsby, Hedley Sutton
Treasurer: Jill Kilsby
Venue: All...
Central London Branch Programme
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Cambridge Branch Programme
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Cambridge Branch Programme 2025
Enquiries to Branch President Dr Sean Lang sf_lang@hotmail.com
Awaiting Programme for 2025-6
Cambridge Branch Programme
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HA Branches in the East of England
Branch details by region
Cambridge Branch
Enquiries to Branch President Dr Sean Lang sf_lang@hotmail.com
Cambridge Branch Programme
Essex Branch
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...
HA Branches in the East of England
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Exeter & District Branch Programme
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Thursday 12th February 2026
4.40 p.m. at Exeter College Exeter, Hele Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4JS (tel:+441392400500) Tower Lecture Theatre (use reception entrance at Hele Road site; directions will be given). Parking is available in the roads around the College but is metered.
The English Civil War (1642-1646)
Professor Mark...
Exeter & District Branch Programme
