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Podcast: End of the World Cults
Podcast
In this podcast Professor Penelope Corfield looks at the history of 'End of the World Cults'.
1. Why do people at times become urgently convinced that 'the End of the World is Nigh?'
HA Members can listen to the full podcast here
Short Reading list for End-of-the-World Cults:
Two wide-ranging introductions:...
Podcast: End of the World Cults
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Teaching History 199: Ordinary People
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
08 When a name is not enough: telling rich stories about women’s lives in the American West at GCSE – Nicole Ridley (Read article)
16 Volunteers against fascism and appeasement: teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in...
Teaching History 199: Ordinary People
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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
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Teaching History 200: Telling Histories
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This 200th edition of Teaching History is currently open-access to all. For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders join the HA today.
03 Editorial (Read...
Teaching History 200: Telling Histories
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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
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History 377
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 107, Issue 377
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
William...
History 377
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Polychronicon 176: Peterloo, 1819–2019
Teaching History feature
Polychronicon is a regular feature in Teaching History helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretations. See all Polychronicons
On Monday 16 August 1819 troops under the authority of the Lancashire and Cheshire magistrates attacked and dispersed a rally of some...
Polychronicon 176: Peterloo, 1819–2019
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History 372
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 372
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
Women...
History 372
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Bristol Branch Programme
Article
Please contact Mary Feerick, Secretary Maryfeerick@gmail.com or 0117 9442898 with any enquiries. Annual branch membership is £15. All lectures are free to National HA members as well as University of Bristol staff & all students. Guests pay £5 on the door for a single lecture. Further details are available on...
Bristol Branch Programme
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HA South West History Network
10 Minute Mini CPD
The HA South West Network are pleased to offer a new series of 10-minute Mini CPD sessions: bite-sized talks on what teachers in the South West are doing for everyone to enjoy. Details and booking links will be published on the Network's Twitter account @HASWNetwork.
Date
Presenter
Focus
Tuesday 29...
HA South West History Network
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Leicester Branch Programme
Article
Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2026-27
All enquiries for Leicester Branch: Dr Alex Bryne. alexander.bryne@dmu.ac.uk
All enquiries for Northampton Branch: Professor Matthew McCormack. Matthew.McCormack@northampton.ac.uk
13 October 2026
Dr Heena Heena (University of Leicester)
Beyond British Criticism: Religion, Print and Astrological Writings in...
Leicester Branch Programme
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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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Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Many history teachers will remember the feature on Jamie Byrom's teaching in Times Educational Supplement of July 1996 where he attacked the recent fashion of history textbooks for encouraging only short (and usually formulaic) responses...
Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again
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Teaching History 140: Creative History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Ellen Buxton - Fog over channel; continent accessible? Year 8 use counterfactual reasoning to explore place and social upheaval in eighteenth-century France and Britain (Read article)
16 Gary Hillyard - Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution (Read article)
25 Triumphs show: Leading a...
Teaching History 140: Creative History
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Formation of the Public History Committee
Public History Committee
The Historical Association is pleased to announce the formation of a Committee for Public History which held its first meeting in May 2009. Dr Andrew Foster, a member of Council, is the first chair of this committee and gave a brief account of its purpose at the AGM held in...
Formation of the Public History Committee
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Historian Membership Sample Resources
Broaden your historical horizons
Enjoy a taster of the original content available with HA Historian membership and discover how it can unlock fresh insights, broaden your historical understanding, and deepen your connection with the past.
Online resources are just one part of the HA membership package – find out more here.
The Historian magazine
The Historian...
Historian Membership Sample Resources
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West Surrey Branch Programme
Article
Branch contact All enquiries to membershipwsha@yahoo.co.uk or Telephone: 01784 435630
Venue: All meetings start at 7.30pm and will be held at St Nicolas’ Hall, Bury Street, Guildford, GU2 4AW. The nearest car park is Portsmouth Road Car Park (GU2 4BW). Early arrival advised.
Associate membership £20 per year. Talks free...
West Surrey Branch Programme
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Essex Branch Programme
Article
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 -£5
Associate Members fee £15.00 / £20.00 for 2 members at same address
For all branch enquiries please contact Tony Tuckwell: 01245 256423...
Essex Branch Programme
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Kristallnacht
Historian article
Why Reichskristallnacht?
In The Third Reich Michael Burleigh writes: ‘We should be cautious in seeing spontaneity where frequency suggests instigation from a central source.' He comments on ‘a dialectic between "spontaneous" grassroot actions and "followup" state sponsored measures.' These remarks relate to 1935, the time of the Nuremberg Laws [the...
Kristallnacht
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Taunton Deane Branch Programme
Article
All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson geoff.bisson51@gmail.com tel. 01823 353749 M 07888 641 587
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. Tea, coffee and biscuits are available for which a donation is welcome....
Taunton Deane Branch Programme
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Magic History of Roman Britain
Article
Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
The Magic History of Roman Britain by Jon Nichol provides a great deal of information about life in Roman Britain in story form. It tells the story of Sam and Jane,...
Magic History of Roman Britain
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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
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Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785
Article
Ym Mhennod 9, mae Dr Eryn White (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) yn trafod pwy oedd mewn grym yng Nghymru ym 1714, y berthynas newidiol rhwng Cymru a'r Deyrnas Unedig ehangach a'r datblygiadau allweddol a ddigwyddodd yng Nghymru rhwng 1714-1785.
Mae Dr White yn myfyrio ar ehangu cyflym print a llythrennedd yng Nghymru...
Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785
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Film: Queer British History – 1714 to 1785
Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
In episode 10, Dr Declan Kavanagh (University of Kent), reflects on Queer British history 1714-1785. Dr Kavanagh looks at the history of the language of LGBTQ+, in particular the term ‘queer’ in its very recent usage and how the language of descriptors for these communities has been influenced. Dr Kavanagh draws...
Film: Queer British History – 1714 to 1785
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Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
In Episode 6, Dr Declan Kavanagh (University of Kent) discusses the development of ideas around, and responses to, disability in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century.
Dr Kavanagh examines the definition given in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary in 1755 and looks at the medical and charity models of responding to disability...
Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
