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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 9
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
4 From the Chairman
5 Hymn Writer Supreme - Dr R. Brinley Jones
6 Venice, the Biennale and Wales - Dr John Law
7 18th Century Underwear - Jean Webber
9 Whigs and wigs
12 Howell Harris - David James
15 Branch news
16 British Government's...
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 9
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Nuneaton Branch Programme
Article
Nuneaton Branch Programme 2024-25
Contact: michael.arnold@cantab.net
Venue: Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre, 4 Avenue Road, Nuneaton CV11 4LU
Time: 7.30pm unless otherwise indicated
25 September 2024
The History of Food in England
Prof. Diana Purkiss, Oxford University
October 2024
TBA
7 November 2024
Soviet Propaganda in Maps
Dr....
Nuneaton Branch Programme
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Oxford Branch Programme
Article
Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £2 per meeting. Associate membership of the branch is £10.00, couple at the same address £15.00, full-time students under 30 £6.00. Schools wishing to bring groups of students to meetings will be asked to pay £10 for the group....
Oxford Branch Programme
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West Surrey Branch Programme
Article
Branch contact All enquiries to Mr Rollo Crookshank crookshankrollo@gmail.com tel 01252 319881
Venue: All talks start at 7.30pm and take place St Nicolas’ Hall, Bury Street, Guildford, GU2 4AW. The nearest car park is Portsmouth Road Car Park (GU2 4BW).
Associate membership £15 per year. Talks free to national HA...
West Surrey Branch Programme
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Chichester Branch Programme
Article
Chichester Branch Programme 2024-25
Enquiries to Mr Alex Bristow alexjbristow@outlook.com 01903 505554
All meetings start at 7.30pm except January at 2.30pm in the Friends’ Meeting House, Priory Road, Chichester PO19 1NX. Meetings are expected to finish by 9 pm (4 pm in January). Light refreshments are served from 7 pm...
Chichester Branch Programme
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Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011
Branch History
Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011In 1964 some members of the historical Association, mostly from the West London branch, met at Maria Grey Training College in Isleworth to set up a new branch for the Richmond & Twickenham area. A Provisional Committee was formed with George Bartle, a college lecturer, as...
Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011
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Cambridge Branch Programme
Article
Cambridge Branch Programme 2023-24
Enquiries to Branch Secretary Mr Bene’t Steinberg benet1@hotmail.co.uk
History Days are free for members, £8 for visitors.
History book club is free for all.
Online Book Club events start at 6.00 pm. Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87016549890?pwd=ZjlCYTNZYTlQNGZFa1dHdFdJVGtnQT09
Meeting ID: 870 1654 9890 Passcode: 459246
Please note that there is...
Cambridge Branch Programme
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Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme 2024-25
Meetings 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.
Please email to see if Zoom is available.
The cost of Membership is £15...
Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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Ealing Branch Programme
Article
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 October meeting which takes place at Twyford School at 6.30pm
Members (£15 annual fee) and Visitors (£5 per talk) Students free.
Bookings for meetings are via...
Ealing Branch Programme
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70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch
1st July 2020
In June 2020 the HA Isle of Wight branch celebrated its 70th birthday. Here, Honorary Secretary of the branch Terry Blunden looks back at the history and development of the branch since 1950.
Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906 sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on...
70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch
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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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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...
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 14
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Isle of Wight Branch Programme
Article
Branch contact: All enquiries to Caroline Jacobs jacobscme@gmail.com tel: 07988 171 708
Venue: All talks take place at Newport Minster, St Thomas’ Square, NEWPORT, IW PO30 1BG, starting at 7.30pm and finishing at approximately 9.00pm, unless otherwise stated. Doors open at 7.00pm
Associate membership: £10 per year. Talks free to...
Isle of Wight Branch Programme
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History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021
HA branch history
This article is based on a talk originally given after the 2003 Branch AGM which drew on branch records subsequently deposited with the County Archives. These comprise AGM and committee minutes as well as notes on, and some details of, speakers for each meeting from the 1928-9 season to 1957,...
History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021
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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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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
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Portsmouth Branch Programme
Article
Portsmouth Branch Programme 2024-25
Venue for talks: Room 2.01 Park Building, King Henry I St, Portsmouth PO1 2BZ.
All talks start at 7pm and finish no later than 8.30pm.
Pay on arrival: £4 per lecture, or £20 for all lectures October to May. Students and HA members free. No need...
Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Buckinghamshire Branch Programme
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Buckinghamshire Branch Programme 2024-25
Meetings are being held on Wednesdays at 8.00 pm online through Zoom
(excepting the June event which will be in-person)
Admission to meetings is free to full and associate members of the Historical Association.
Visitors and Students WELCOME and donations of £3 appreciated.
Please contact...
Buckinghamshire Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch Programme 2023-24
Bolton Branch warmly welcomes everyone to join us for the upcoming lecture series
Branch contact All enquiries to Mrs Melissa Wright mwright@boltonschool.org.uk 07912369060
Venue: All talks start at 6.30pm on (mostly) the first Monday of the month, and take place in the Leverhulme...
Bolton 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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Podcast: Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: some thoughts on the use and abuse of history
Bolton Branch Lecture Podcast by Charles Esdaile
This podcast was recorded by the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on Monday 1 February 2010, at the Parish Hall in Bolton.
We were pleased to welcome Professor Charles Esdaile of the University of Liverpool back to the branch to speak on ‘Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: Some Thoughts...
Podcast: Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: some thoughts on the use and abuse of history
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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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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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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
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City of Lincoln Branch Programme
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City of Lincoln Branch Programme 2023-24
Branch contact: All enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk
Venue: unless otherwise stated, all talks start at 6.15pm, and will take place on the University of Lincoln’s Brayford Pool campus.
Branch membership: £20 per year. Talks free to national HA members, students, teachers and...
City of Lincoln Branch Programme
