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                                                                                Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    HA WebinarThis year's Holocaust Memorial Day the theme is 'One Day'. In this webinar with historian Paula Kitching, we will use the one day Wannsee Conference of January 1942 to help explore the actions of the perpetrators, the Holocaust victims and how decision making by people can lead to genocide.
This... Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide
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                                                                                Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Virtual BranchWhy is the term 'Armenian Genocide' controversial, with many countries still not acknowledging a genocide at all? What do we know about the event of 1915 and the plight of the Armenian community in Turkey? How can we grapple with a history that many people want to forget? In this... Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?
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                                                                                Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleDaniel Goldhagen defines anti-semitism as ‘negative beliefs and emotions about Jews qua Jews.' Nazis believed Jews to be the source of Germany's misfortunes, and that they must be denied German citizenship and removed from German society. Hitler never compromised on the need to settle what he regarded as the Jewish... Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
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                                                                                Recorded webinar: Black Germans: the last forgotten victims of the Nazis?
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    ArticleIn this webinar, Professor Robbie Aitken looks at the experiences of Black residents in Germany during the Nazi period. Why have they been largely written out of larger histories of the Third Reich? Professor Aitken suggests that there was a genocidal intent in Nazi policy towards them, signalled partly by... Recorded webinar: Black Germans: the last forgotten victims of the Nazis?
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                                                                                Polychronicon 135: Post-modern Holocaust Historiography
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History featureThe field of Holocaust studies has been hit by an intellectual earthquake whose precise magnitude and long-term consequences cannot be ascertained at this stage. In 2007 Saul Friedländer published The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945. The book has been rightly celebrated as the first victim-centred synthetic history... Polychronicon 135: Post-modern Holocaust Historiography
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                                                                                Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    ArticleThis talk was presented at the Historical Association Awards evening, 7 July 2022. The talk is by Professor David Olusoga on the evening that he received the HA Medlicott Medal for Outstanding contributions to History. It is not to be used for any purpose or publicly reported on without the... Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga
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                                                                                Bristol and the Slave Trade
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletCaptain 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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                                                                                Elementary Education in the Nineteenth Century
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletAll schemes for education involve some consideration of the surrounding society, its existing structure and how it will-and should-develop. Thus the interaction of educational provision and institutions with patterns of employment, social mobility and political behaviour are fascinatingly complex. The spate of valuable local studies emphasizes this complexity and makes... Elementary Education in the Nineteenth Century
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                                                                                Religion and Politics 1559-1642
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletIt is a truism to say that religion and politics were inextricably mixed in the seventeenth century.
"So natural" wrote Richard Hooker,"is the union of religion with Justice, that we may boldly deem there is neither where both are not" Sir John Eliot observed that in the House of Commons... Religion and Politics 1559-1642
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                                                                                Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletRadicalism with a large "R", unlike Conservatism with a large "C" and Liberalism with a large "L", is not a historical term of even proximate precision. There was never a Radical Party with a national organization, local associations, or a treasury. But there were, and there are, "Radicals", generally qualified... Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
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                                                                                Scots Abroad in the Fifteenth Century
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic Pamphlet(Historical Association Pamphlet, No. 124, 1942)
Dunlop's research into the occupations and attitudes of Scots abroad during the 15th century uncovers some surprising revelations about all members of the Scottish ex-pat society.
She particularly notes the ‘scurrilous' opinions of the French regarding Scotsmen's behaviour. While Scottish diplomatists and envoys tended... Scots Abroad in the Fifteenth Century
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                                                                                1066: The Limits of our Knowledge
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleAs the most pivotal and traumatic event in English history, the Norman Conquest continues to generate controversy and debate, especially among those who know little about it or enjoy passing judgement on the past. Who had the better claim to the English throne, William the Conqueror or Harold Godwineson? Was... 1066: The Limits of our Knowledge
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                                                                                The Investiture Disputes
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletHistorical labels are dictated by a wayward fashion; and the name which is still most commonly associated with the first struggle of Empire and Papacy (1076-1122). "The Investiture Disputes," is neither lucid or appropriate. It has been commoner for historians to name the great wars of history after the issues... The Investiture Disputes
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                                                                                The English Domestic Servant in English History
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletThe history of domestic service in England has yet to be written. Hewers of wood and drawers of water there have always been, but historians have usually been little concerned with them. The material for their history is scattered and difficult to assess; even the word ‘servant' is not easy... The English Domestic Servant in English History
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                                                                                Strange Journey: the life of Dorothy Eckersley
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleMeeting in Berlin
Three days before the outbreak of the Second World War, William Joyce, the leader of the British Nazi group, the National Socialist League, was in Berlin. He and his wife, Margaret, had fled there fearing internment by the British government if war broke out. Yet as war... Strange Journey: the life of Dorothy Eckersley
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                                                                                Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010In Episode 4, Dr Montaz Marché (University College London) and Professor Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter), discuss the lives and experience of 18th century Black Britons.
In this discussion they look at the lives of both the exceptional and the ordinary, and reflect upon the politics of race and gender in... Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785
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                                                                                Podcast Series: The British Empire 1800-Present
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Multipage ArticleAn HA Podcasted History of the British Empire 1800-Present featuring Dr Seán Lang of Anglia Ruskin University, Dr John Stuart of Kingston University London, Professor A. J. Stockwell and Dr Larry Butler of the University of East Anglia. Podcast Series: The British Empire 1800-Present
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                                                                                Historical Fiction: warts and all
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleThe perception is that, for historical fiction, this is the best of times. It has never been more popular: witness the 2012 Christmas day schedule-jostling between Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife. It has never been more literary: witness Hilary Mantel winning her second Man Booker prize for Bring Up the... Historical Fiction: warts and all
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                                                                                Women, War and Revolution
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletOn the surface, the period 1914 to 1945 seems to have encompassed massive changes in the position of women in Europe, in response to the demands of war and revolution. Yet historians have questioned the extent of the transformation, since the acquisition of the vote, as well as improvements in... Women, War and Revolution
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                                                                                Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleCommonly hailed as a discovery or a ‘medical breakthrough', vaccination against smallpox with cowpox exudate was a development of variolation i.e. inoculation with live smallpox matter - a technique popularised amongst the gentry in the early eighteenth century by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who had observed the procedure in Turkey... Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination
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                                                                                Oliver Cromwell 1658-1958
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletEver since the death of Oliver Cromwell 300 years ago his reputation has been the subject of controversy. The royalist view of him was expressed by Clarendon: "a brave bad mad," an ambitious hypocrite. This interpretation was supported by many former Parliamentarians: Edmund Ludlow regarded Cromwell as the lost leader... Oliver Cromwell 1658-1958
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                                                                                The Government of the Roman Empire
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic PamphletsThe Government of the Roman Empire, as everyone knows, was autocratic, and, like all autocracies, it was ‘tempered by assassination' or by military revolution. The emperor ruled through an imperial service, at once civil and military, in which several grades, corresponding to the social classes of the empire, were always... The Government of the Roman Empire
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                                                                                The British General Strike 1926
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Classic Pamphlet‘The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin.' (Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, 6th May 1926).
‘The General Council does not challenge the Constitution ... the sole aim of the Council is to secure for the miners a decent standard of life. The Council... The British General Strike 1926
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                                                                                Pleasure Piers: a sign of Victorian exuberance
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    ArticleOctober 2010 was a memorable month for England's historic pleasure piers. Early in the month, fire ravaged Hastings Pier, to the extent that there is some doubt as to whether it can be restored, but, by contrast, at the end of the month there was the delightful news that the... Pleasure Piers: a sign of Victorian exuberance
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                                                                                The London Charterhouse
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleFour hundred years ago, in 1611, Thomas Sutton was reputed to be the wealthiest commoner in England but he was nearing the end of his life. He had been a financier and he was formerly the Master of Ordnance in the Northern Parts. He decided to take up good works... The London Charterhouse