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  • Making the Modern World: The shock of the real at the science museum

      Primary History article
    Making the Modern World is a vast, exuberant exposition of the real deal. From Arkwright's textile machines that kick-started the industrial revolution to the first Apple computer; from a pair of patented genetically-modified mice to the Apollo 10 command module that orbited the Moon - ons of the industrialised world...
    Making the Modern World: The shock of the real at the science museum

  • 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

  • Teaching History 192: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 192: Breadth If the length of a curriculum relates to how long it lasts – to its duration in classroom time and to the volume of historical time it covers – then curricular breadth refers us to the number and the variety of the dimensions of human...
    Teaching History 192: Out now

  • The Nation of the Scots and the Declaration of Arbroath

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet seeks to chart the progress of the Scottish struggle for independence after 1291 by considering the changing nature of the Scottish resistance. The primary sources are exiguous when compared to those bearing upon the English attempt at subjugation, and the interpretation offered is at best tentative: that initially...
    The Nation of the Scots and the Declaration of Arbroath

  • General HA Conference 2018 resources

      Workshop resources
    The resources in this section are from workshops presented for at the HA Annual Conference 2018. The conference took place in Stratford-upon-Avon on 18-19 May 2018. The HA Annual Conference is a unique opportunity to join the history community on a weekend of captivating history. In the General pathway you can enjoy...
    General HA Conference 2018 resources

  • Lenses, mirrors and bridges: one department’s holistic approach to diversifying and decolonising local history

      Teaching History article
    As was the case for many heads of history, Jack Brown was prompted by the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 to reflect afresh on the content and questions asked within his school’s history curriculum, paying particular attention to local history. In this article he sets out the principles and...
    Lenses, mirrors and bridges: one department’s holistic approach to diversifying and decolonising local history

  • Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 Falling forward: three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance – Paula Worth (Read article) 22 Bringing historical method into the classroom: how the spectacle of teachers debating can help A-level students to understand the nature of interpretations –...
    Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance

  • Films: Brezhnev – Interpretations

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    (Student and corporate secondary members can view these films in our Student Zone) Leonid Brezhnev was the second longest serving leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin, overseeing some of the most difficult relations between East and West, yet he does not have the popular cultural legacy of some of the...
    Films: Brezhnev – Interpretations

  • Centenary of the Treaty of Versailles 1919

      1st July 2019
    The end of June 2019 marked the centenary of the formal ending of the First World War. 11 November 1918 was only the Armistice – it needed a peace treaty to truly end the war. The Treaty of Versailles between the Allies and Germany was signed on 28 June 1919:...
    Centenary of the Treaty of Versailles 1919

  • British Christians and European Integration

      Historian article
    Despite Britain’s longstanding membership of the European Union, the question of ‘Europe’ continues to loom large in the nation’s politics. Whilst the economic pros and cons of Britain ‘joining’ the euro might be understood by only a select few, that issue provides for the many an opportunity to debate Britain’s...
    British Christians and European Integration

  • Why History? Why Me?

      Student Guides
    What is History? History, the study of the past, is all around us; we are continually making history through our thoughts, words and actions. History is personal and global; it is everyday life and momentous occasions. History is about people. Through our study of the past, we can understand how...
    Why History? Why Me?

  • Oxford Branch Programme

      Article
    For any further information, please contact Dr Vivienne Larminie, branch secretary, email vivienne.larminie@history.ox.ac.uk  HA members free, non-members £2 per meeting. Annual associate membership £10 individual, £15 joint (living at same address), full-time students under 30, £6. School groups £10 per group. Oxford Branch Programme 2025-26   Wednesday, 11 February 2026...
    Oxford Branch Programme

  • Hungarian Nationalism in International Context

      Historian article
    All aspects of Hungarian nationalism – with one exception, which I shall consider later – had more or less similar counterparts elsewhere in Europe; but the blending of those elements yielded a unique constellation. Moreover, the ingredients of this mixture proved highly disruptive for central Europe, indeed at times for...
    Hungarian Nationalism in International Context

  • The Historian 89: The Great Liberal landslide

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Letters  5 Editorial  6 HA News 8 The Great Liberal Landslide of 1906: The 1906 general election in perspective - Dr Ian Packer (Read article) 17 A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Forgotten William Dampier - Diana Preston (Read article) 26 Popular Revolt & the rise of Early Modern States -...
    The Historian 89: The Great Liberal landslide

  • Teaching History 150: Enduring Principles

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 Letters 05 HA Secondary News 06 Mary Brown - From Muddleton Manor to Clarity Cathedral: improving Year 12's extended writing through an enhanced sense of the reader (Read article) 14 John Stanier ‘Much to learn you still have!' An attempt to make Year 9 Masters of Learning...
    Teaching History 150: Enduring Principles

  • The Historian 21

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Sick people, health and doctors in Georgian England - Roy Porter 7 Portfolio: The life and death of Colonel Blimp - Kevin Jefferys 10 Update: The French Revolution - Norman Hampson 24 Education Forum: Pushing for the past - Nicholas Reeves
    The Historian 21

  • Exploring Twentieth-Century History

      Article
    For a long time, history curricula on the 20th century prioritised the narrative of a slide from World War I to World War II and fascism above many other topics. But the history of the 20th century is both far more complicated and far more interesting than that. For the historians writing here, the...
    Exploring Twentieth-Century History

  • Faction in Tudor England

      Classic Pamphlet
    'This wicked Tower must be fed with blood' - W. S. Gilbert's dialogue sums up the popular myth of Tudor England. This pamphlet looks at the reality, a society and politics necessarily divided into rival factions by the pulls of patronage, local loyalty and the implications of personal monarchy, and...
    Faction in Tudor England

  • Out and about in D.H. Lawrence country

      Historian feature
    Eastwood is a busy, small town, about twelve miles west of Nottingham. It lies just within the county boundary with Derbyshire. Its name probably derived from a settlement in a clearing of the old Sherwood Forest. It sits mostly on a hilltop, which is the meeting place for main roads...
    Out and about in D.H. Lawrence country

  • History 384-385

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 109, Issue 384-385
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online  Richard,...
    History 384-385

  • The Institute of Historical Research

      Public History Podcast
    The following podcasts are from an interview between Dr Andrew Foster, chair of our Public History Committee with Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the Institute of Historical Research. The podcasts look at the work of the IHR - what it aims to do for the historical profession and wider public, the...
    The Institute of Historical Research

  • A-Level Topic Guide: Russia and the USSR

      Russia and the USSR
    Russia and the USSR in the nineteenth and twentieth century is a popular area of study at A-level across the examination boards. Whichever board you are studying with and whatever the focus of your study unit on Russian history, the resources in this unit will support you as you develop your subject knowledge, write essays...
    A-Level Topic Guide: Russia and the USSR

  • The Historian 24

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Napoleon and the French Revolution, Irvne Collins 10 Update: The Causes of the Second World War, Michael Dockrill 13 Education Forum: Time for Change at 'A' Level, John Fines 14 Museums: Working From Museums, Gail Durbin 18 Portfolio: Medieval Emperors and the English Kings, Dorothy Meade
    The Historian 24

  • The British Empire on trial

      Article
    In the light of present-day concerns about the place, in a modern world, of statues commemorating figures whose roles in history are of debatable merit, Dr Gregory Gifford puts the British Empire on trial, presenting a balanced case both for and against. In June 2020 when the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston...
    The British Empire on trial

  • The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Iconic images of war - Edgar Jones (Read Article) Child health and school meals - Denise Amos (Read Article) Edo period Japanese art  Hungary 1956 - Ann Kneif (Read Article) Kilpeck church - John Hunt (Read Article)
    The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals