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The Historian 118: Travel
The magazine of the Historical Association
5 Editorial
6 Cathars and Castles in Medieval France - Richard Eales (Read Article)
12 Travel - Nicolas Kinloch (Read Article)
17 The President's Column
18 It's Murder On The Orient Express - Alf Wilkinson (Read Article)
22 Taking tea with Frau von Papen - Andrew Kirkby (Read Article)
24 Marcus Morris and...
The Historian 118: Travel
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Bath Branch Programme
Article
Bath Branch Programme 2024-25
Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture.
For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945.
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Bath Branch Programme
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Exeter & District Branch Programme
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Exeter & District Branch Programme 2023-24
All enquiries to Suzannah.Stern@history.org.uk
Tuesday 14 November 2023 4.15 p.m.
Event in association with Exeter School
Exeter School, Exeter, Andrews Hall 4.15 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Claire McCallum, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Russian History, College of Humanities, University of Exeter
Topic: Everyday...
Exeter & District Branch Programme
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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
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Polychronicon 141: Adolf Eichmann
Teaching History feature
Almost 60 years ago Adolf Eichmann went on trial for crimes committed against the Jews while he was in the service of the Nazi regime. His capture by the Israeli secret service and his abduction from Argentina triggered a number of journalistic books that portrayed him as a pathological monster...
Polychronicon 141: Adolf Eichmann
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The Historian 83: Personality and Power
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
8 Personality and Power: The Individual's role in the History of Twentieth-Century Europe - Ian Kershaw (Read article)
20 'Right well kept': Peterborough Abbey 1536-1539 - Christopher Morris (Read article)
24 The commercial architecture of Victorian Liverpool - Joseph Sharples (Read article)
36 The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs - Dave Burnham (Read article)...
The Historian 83: Personality and Power
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Nottingham Branch Programme
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Nottingham Branch Programme 2024-25
Meetings are held at 2pm on Wednesdays in Bromley House Library, Angel Row, Nottingham NG1 6HL, unless otherwise stated. (With your back to the City Hall, the Library entrance is on the left, not far from the Square and is between Barnardo’s and MSR Newsagents). Bromley...
Nottingham Branch Programme
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Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme 2024-25
Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors.
Associate membership of the branch is £12 for 2024/25 or £19.50 with our monthly news bulletin, the Beckenham Historian.
All meetings take place at 7.45 pm in Christ Church Hall, Fairfield...
Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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Richard II and the Peasants' Revolt
Medieval British History
In this podcast Dr James Davis of Queens University Belfast discusses the reign of Richard II and the origins and significance of the Peasants' Revolt.
Richard II and the Peasants' Revolt
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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
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Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
Classic Pamphlet
Radicalism 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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Polychronicon 161: John Lilburne
Teaching History feature
John Lilburne might have been destined for obscurity in less interesting times. He was the second son of a minor gentry family, apprenticed to a London woollen merchant in 1632. It was his master’s connections that drew him into religious opposition to Charles I and the illegal book trade, resulting...
Polychronicon 161: John Lilburne
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50th Anniversary of 'Carve her name with pride'
Article
The classic British war film Carve Her Name With Pride was based on the true story of Violette Szabó GC, the 23 year old French speaking single mother who volunteered during WW2 to be an agent for the top secret Special Operations Executive (SOE). Shortly after parachuting into German occupied...
50th Anniversary of 'Carve her name with pride'
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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
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The Wolfson History Prize 2023
29th November 2023
On 13 November 2023 some of the HA team were fortunate enough to be in a glorious room at Claridge’s in Mayfair, London to hear the announcement of the winner of the prestigious Wolfson History Prize.
To a full room it was announced that the winner was independent historian Halik...
The Wolfson History Prize 2023
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History 377
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 107, Issue 377
Access all articles online (you first need to be logged in to the HA website and subscribed to History)
William of Tyre, Translatio Imperii and the Genesis of the First Crusade: Or, the Challenges of Writing History (pp 624-650) – Andrew D. Buck
Honour, Memory and Lineage: Remembering the English Civil War through Funeral Memorials...
History 377
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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?
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Charles II
Early Modern British History
In this podcast Professor John Miller discusses how we should judge the reign of Charles II and ask what was his domestic and international legacy?
Charles II
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Currency and the Economy in Tudor and early Stuart England
Classic Pamphlet
Before the development of paper money, which in England did not really occur until later in the seventeenth century, the circulating medium consisted of coins and tokens. The unit of account in which they were valued was the pound sterling; in which there were twenty shillings each of twelve pence,...
Currency and the Economy in Tudor and early Stuart England
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The Historian 155: Women and power
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’? – Tracy Borman (Read article)
12 A woman’s place is in the castle: two besieged noblewomen in medieval Scotland – Morvern French and Iain A. MacInnes (Read article)
17 Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah: a trailblazing Islamic queen – Khadija...
The Historian 155: Women and power
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History 357
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 103, Issue 357
Articles
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A Riposte to Clive Holmes, ‘The Trial and Execution of Charles I’ (pp 525-544), Sean Kelsey
Leopold I, Louis XIV, William III and the Origins of the War of the Spanish Succession (pp 545-570), Wouter Troost...
History 357
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Podcast Series: Early Modern Ireland
Multipage Article
This series of podcasts featuring Professor Sean Connolly and Professor David Hayton of Queen's University Belfast looks at Irish History from 1500-1800. Topics covered include Tudor Ireland, the Eleven Years War, Restoration Ireland, the significance of the reigns of James II and William III and politics in Ireland during the...
Podcast Series: Early Modern Ireland
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History 328
The Journal of the Historical Association
Yugoslavia's Contested Past1. Yugoslavia's Contested Past: A Special Issue (pages 537-539)Cathie Carmichael Articles1. Commemorating a Disputed Past: Football Club and Supporters' Group War Memorials in the Former Yugoslavia (pages 540-577) - Rochard Mills2. Anti-fascism and Montenegrin Identity since 1990 (pages 578-590) - Nebojsa Cagorovic3. Pannonia Imperilled: Why Danilo Kiš Still...
History 328
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Birmingham Branch History
Branch History
The Branch was founded in May 1907, a few months after the Historical Association was established. The founding Branch President was Professor John Masterman, Professor of History (1902-09) in the University of Birmingham's Department of Commerce, as it was designated in those days. He was one of several historians in...
Birmingham Branch History
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Excluded by men? Joanna the Mad, patriarchy and a charge of insanity
Historian article
Glyn Redworth re-appraises the life of an unfortunate queen.
Joanna of Castile was a pretty child. She had an oval face and a long delicate nose. Her skin was felt to be attractively light in colour as was her hair. Fiercely intelligent, the basics of Latin came easily to her....
Excluded by men? Joanna the Mad, patriarchy and a charge of insanity
