HA Awards

We have a number of highly-respected awards that seek to recognise outstanding history whether it reflects a lifetime’s achievement and dedication to history seen in our prestigious annual Medlicott Medal or a one-off competition that engages young people in a particular aspect of history or commemorative event. Read more

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  • Film: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga

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    This talk was presented at the Historical Association Awards evening, 7 July 2022. The talk is by Professor David Olusoga on the evening that he received the HA Medlicott Medal for Outstanding contributions to History. It is not to be used for any purpose or publicly reported on without the...

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  • Film: Medlicott Lecture 2021 - Rana Mitter

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    The 2021 Medlicott Medal recipient was Professor Rana Mitter, expert on Modern Chinese history and politics. Professor Mitter's Medlicott lecture was on the subject of ‘How New is Asia’s “new era”?’.

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  • Film: Medlicott Lecture 2019 - Professor Dame Janet Nelson

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  • Podcast: Medlicott Lecture 2018 - Justin Champion

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  • The Medlicott Medal

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    Our annual award the Medlicott Medal is awarded to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history. The Medlicott winner is notified in advance of their win so that they can give a talk. The Historical Association's annual event is becoming a must for local, educational and academic historians....

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

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    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...

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  • Eric Hobsbawm: Is History Dangerous?

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    Professor Eric Hobsbawm’s address at the Annual Dinner of the Historical Association meeting in Cambridge, April 1999, on accepting the Medlicott Medal. Our annual award the Medlicott Medal is awarded to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history.

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