Branch History Teaching Resources

Historians view major anniversaries with a measure of ambivalence. We know that they are artificial, that it is merely a convenient fiction to think that the...

In September 1683 in the Cape Verde Islands William Dampier lay 'obscured' among the scrubby vegetation to do some bird watching. He was excited for he had...

The Edo period in Japanese history fell between the years 1600 and 1867, beginning when Tokugawa Ieyatsu, a daimyo (samurai lord), became the strongest power...

Much has been written during the last 50 years about the events leading up to and during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Less consideration has been given to...

Refer nowadays to Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-91)—once among the most recognisable and talked about of all nineteenth century Americans— only to...

Prior to abolition in 1807, Britain was the world’s leading slave trading nation. Of an estimated six million individuals forcibly transported from...

Bedford Branch of the Historical Association Programme 2011-12

Renowned historian Professor Sir Ian Kershaw joined the Bolton Branch of the...

Bolton Branch Programme 2011-12

27 book reviews of recently published books covering history from the Ancient to the Modern World: Early Modern Anthony Grafton What was History?: The Art of...

This paper is divided into two sections. The first outlines the rights,...

Brazil and the outbreak of the First World War At the beginning of the twentieth century Brazil was on the periphery of a world order that revolved around...

The popular image of Cheshire is of a flat green landscape dotted with cows, of black and white houses, a county remote from the great events that have shaped...

Chichester Branch Programme 2011-12

Following Jamie Oliver’s devastating television series on the inadequacy of school meals the present government has been quick to be seen to address the...

Christopher Hill, the eminent historian of seventeenth century England, was a convinced Marxist throughout most of his long and productive life (1912-2003). He...

Although he was not born in Kent, Charles Dickens spent the happiest and most settled part of his childhood in Chatham and chose to return to the same area...

In 2005 East Asian regional strategy is once again a hot topic for policy makers, diplomats and journalists. As China begins to reassert herself regionally and...