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  • Promoting the First World War, 1914-16

      Historian article
    The popular image of the First World War is of young men leaving the tedium of the factory or the mine to volunteer for service on the Western Front in one of Kitchener’s new armies. Less well known is the background effort that went into maintaining and strengthening morale as...
    Promoting the First World War, 1914-16

  • Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

      Connected and Competing Activisms
    How did a group of women activists with varied ideological backgrounds construct several important campaigns against fascism in the interwar period? How did this Women's World Committee against War and Fascism (Comité Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fascisme) undertake effective humanitarian and propaganda work and forge extensive...
    Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

  • British Women in the Nineteenth Century

      Classic Pamphlet
    A short pamphlet surveying the historical record of rather more than half the population of Britain over a period of a hundred years must of necessity be sketchy and incomplete. The great interest in history of women which has arisen in the last few decades has produced a great deal...
    British Women in the Nineteenth Century

  • Western Dress and Ambivalence in the South Pacific

      Article
    Michael Sturma examines an aspect of the cultural impact of the West in the South Pacific. ‘States of undress, or the partially clad body, invite particularly ambivalent responses.’ One of the main preoccupation’s of early European visitors to the South Pacific was the nudity or partial nudity of the indigenous...
    Western Dress and Ambivalence in the South Pacific

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

      Teaching History feature
    The historiography of the British Empire has taken a long course since the era of decolonisation. Political histories of the late twentieth century considered the mechanisms connecting crises at the ‘periphery’ with metropolitan decision-making. One rather overused stereotype was the so-called ‘man on the spot’ pushing empire forward, be they...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

  • Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting

      Historian article
    Joe Smith, Kim Hammond and George Revill share some of the findings of their work examining what digital broadcast archives are available and which could be made available in future.  The BBC’s archives hold over a million hours of programmes, dating back to the 1930s (radio) and 1940s (television). It...
    Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting

  • Film: Death in the Diaspora

      British & Irish Gravestones
    As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to both their old and new worlds. In this Virtual...
    Film: Death in the Diaspora

  • Thomas Paine

      Pamphlet
    The radical writer Tom Paine (1737-1809) has become a neglected figure, but this work argues that he should be rightly regarded as an original thinker, whose publications contributed to revolutionary discourses in America, France and Britain in the late 18th Century. He deserves to be remembered in the United States...
    Thomas Paine

  • Podcast: Richard Evans Medlicott -The Origins of the First World War

      Medlicott Podcast
    This year the Historical Association's Medlicott medal for services to history went to Professor Sir Richard Evans. Richard Evans is the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has written numerous highly respected and internationally best-selling books. Evans is bests known for his works on...
    Podcast: Richard Evans Medlicott -The Origins of the First World War

  • War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain

      Article
    John Major discusses an astonishing aspect of past Anglo-American history. All great powers have developed contingency plans for war with each other, and the United States in the early twentieth century was no exception. Each of Washington’s schemes was given a distinctive colour. Green mapped out intervention in neighbouring Mexico,...
    War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain

  • The Last Duke of Lorraine

      Article
    The Place Stanislas in Nancy has a high reputation. But expectations are far surpassed as one surveys the beautifully proportioned square, with its imposing buildings such as the Hôtel de Ville and the Governor's Palace, its Arc de Triomphe and its magnificent iron work. It is a reminder of how...
    The Last Duke of Lorraine

  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

      Article
    In this first webinar about writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman will talk about how ideas grow from reading and thinking about history. Once you have a good idea, then you need to research it properly, starting with secondary sources for context, then moving on to more specific reading. Visits...
    Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

  • Recorded webinar: Untold Stories of D-Day

      Webinar
    The HA has worked with film-maker,  historian and Legasee ambassador Martyn Cox on a series of webinars looking at untold stories from the Second World War. Many of these stories are taken for the oral histories provided in interviews given to Martyn on film.  In this filmed webinar, Martyn goes...
    Recorded webinar: Untold Stories of D-Day

  • Bolingbroke

      Classic Pamphlet
    There were three Bolingbrokes: (1) The politician and minister of Queen Anne's reign, whose career ended with his flight to France in April 1715; (2) The exile, after his brief service under "The Old Pretender," who was permitted in 1723 to return to England, but not to his seat in...
    Bolingbroke

  • William Stubbs

      Classic Pamphlet
    William Stubbs was among the earliest, and is still one of the greatest of the academical English historians. His life (1825-1901) fell in a period that produced a notable succession of distinguished historians in England. He was the first of them to do his historical work as a resident teacher...
    William Stubbs

  • Recorded webinar: Queer beyond London

      Article
    London has tended to dominate accounts of LGBTQ Britain… but how did local contexts beyond the capital affect queer identities and communities? This talk by Professor Matt Cook looks at Brighton, Plymouth, Manchester and Leeds to illustrate the difference locality makes to queer lives. * Please note: while this webinar...
    Recorded webinar: Queer beyond London

  • 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

  • Newcastle and the General Strike 1926

      Historian article
    The nine-day General Strike of May 1926 retains a totemic place in the nation's history nearly 100 years later. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill was among those who attempted to characterise it as anarchy and revolution, but this was hyperbole and largely inaccurate for, as Ellen Wilkinson (then...
    Newcastle and the General Strike 1926

  • Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 - 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. According to Caroline Hoefferle, "Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century." ...
    Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet

  • The Northern Limit: Britain, Canada and Greenland, 1917-20

      Historian article
    Imperial ambitions during the First World War extended beyond the Middle East and Africa.  In this article Ben Markham looks at the territorial wrangling over Greenland. It is well known that the British Empire grew in size significantly in the wake of the First World War. In the course of...
    The Northern Limit: Britain, Canada and Greenland, 1917-20

  • The Transport Revolution 1750-1830

      Classic Pamphlet
    The period 1750-1830, traditionally marking the classical industrial revolution, achieved in Great Britain what Professor Rostow has called the economy's "take-off into self-sustained growth". A revolution in transportation was part of the complex of changes - industrial, agricultural, mercantile and commercial - occurring roughly concurrently.The impetus to transport change is...
    The Transport Revolution 1750-1830

  • Each man's life was worth 1sh 1d 1/2d!

      Historian article
    Alf Wilkinson explores Britain's biggest coal mining disaster, at Senghenydd Colliery, in South Wales, in October 1913. At ten past eight in the morning of Tuesday 14 October 1913, just after 900 men had started work underground, an explosion ripped through Senghenydd Colliery, near Caerphilly, killing 439 miners and, later...
    Each man's life was worth 1sh 1d 1/2d!

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Henry V, Henry the Conqueror?

      Article
    Henry V - Henry the Conqueror? In this lecture former HA President Anne Curry Emeritus Professor of Medieval History Southampton addresses the question Henry V - Henry the Conqueror?'. She explores the relationship between Henry V, his court and those in France. (Please note: if you have HA Membership and are...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Henry V, Henry the Conqueror?

  • History Painting in England: Benjamin West, Philip James de Loutherbourg, J.M.W. Turner

      Historian article
    History Painting is defined in Grove's Dictionary of Art as the ‘depiction of several persons engaged in an important or memorable action, usually taken from a written source.' Though History Painters as important as Rubens and Van Dyke worked - in Van Dyke's case for nine years - in England,...
    History Painting in England: Benjamin West, Philip James de Loutherbourg, J.M.W. Turner

  • The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870