Your branch from home
The HA Virtual Branch is a great way to keep your history up-to-date, whether you are working or relaxing, all from the comfort of your home. The Virtual Branch is free and open to everybody, and recordings of the talks are made available online after the event for HA members.
Did you know? As well as accessing session recordings, members can attend talks held by HA local branches for free, plus exclusive members' webinars and short courses, and a variety of other benefits. Find out more.
Upcoming talks
*LIVE - 28 April 2025, 7.30pm
Women and the Reformations Around the World
Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks
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The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around the world? Read more
In this talk renowned scholar Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks draws upon her recent book Women and the Reformations: A Global History (Yale, 2024) to explore the history of women and the Reformations in full for the first time.
Merry Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author or editor of forty books, including: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, What Is Early Modern History?, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World and The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and their Worlds.
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*LIVE - 20 May 2025, 7.30pm
An Aspect of the Monastic World
Professor Andrew Jotischky
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In his recent book The Monastic World, Andrew Jotischky looks at the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. He ask who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and maintained them? And how did monasticism change over the thousand years or so of the Middle Ages? For this talk he will focus on one particular part of the monastic world and the revelations it provides. Read more
Andrew Jotischky is a Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway University of London on medieval religion and culture, with particular interests in and the relationship between belief and lived experiences, and how religious institutions in the Middle Ages worked.
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Past lecture recordings
If you've missed any of our previous Virtual Branch talks, HA members can access recordings below. Not already a member? Join today
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Date recorded
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Dr Dean Irwin, Natasha Jenman, Luka Liu, and Josh Outhwaite
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Mapping the Jews of Medieval Lincoln
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February 2025
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Dr Henry Reece
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The Fall of the English Republic
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January 2025
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Steve Tibble
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Crusader Criminals
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December 2024
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Professor Emma Smith
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The cultural world of Elizabethan England
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November 2024
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Dr Alvin Finkel
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Humans: The 300,000 year struggle for equality
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October 2024
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Oskar Jensen
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Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society
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September 2024
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Sharon Bennett Connolly
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Women of the Anarchy
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July 2024
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Professor Henrietta Harrison
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The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949
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June 2024
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Harry Freedman
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Shylock's Venice: The remarkable history of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
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May 2024
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Professor Judith Green
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From Pirates to Princes: the Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe
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April 2024
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Dr Joanne Paul
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The House of Dudley
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March 2024
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Dr Mark Williams
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The East India Company and Empire: Foundations and Memory
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February 2024
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Professor David Carpenter
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King Henry III and Simon de Montfort: Reform, Rebellion and Civil War in England 1258-1265
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January 2024
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Dr Steve Tibble
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The British Templars: From Crusaders to Conspiracies
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December 2023
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Christina J. Faraday
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Tudor Liveliness? Discovering Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England
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November 2023
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Jasmine Calver
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The Connected and Competing Activisms of the Women's World Committee against War and Fascism
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October 2023
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Levi Roach
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Empires of the Normans
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September 2023
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Paul Clammer
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Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom
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July 2023
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Professor Erik Linstrum
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Age of emergency: living with violence at the end of the British Empire
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June 2023
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Dr Nicholas Morton
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The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion
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May 2023
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Dr Fitzroy Morrissey
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A short history of Islamic thought
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April 2023
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Dr Gabrielle Storey
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Berengaria of Navarre: History and Myth
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March 2023
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Professor Jan Rüger
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Heligoland: What a small island in the North Sea tells us about the Anglo-German past
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Feb 2023
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Professor John Blair
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Building Anglo-Saxon England
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Jan 2023
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Dr Nicholas J Evans
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Death in diaspora
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Dec 2022
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Professor Malcolm Gaskill
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The Ruin of all Witches: Life and Death in the New World
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Nov 2022
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Dr Peter Hounsell
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Bricks and the making of the city: London in the nineteenth century
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Oct 2022
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Professor Richard Toye
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Churchill's Great Game: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War
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Sept 2022
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Dr Nicola Clark
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Seen but not heard? The ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII
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Aug 2022
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Judith Herrin
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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
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June 2022
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Dean Irwin
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A Jewish divorce case in medieval England
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May 2022
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Bob Morris
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Why has monarchy survived in Europe?
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Apr 2022
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Marcus Collins
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“The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967
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Mar 2022
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Paula Kitching
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Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?
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Feb 2022
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Anna Cusack
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What a strange place to be buried: Unique burial locations in London, c. 1600-1800
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Jan 2022
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Karin Friedrich
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The Partitions of Poland, their Repercussions for German-Polish Relations and their Legacy
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Dec 2021
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Robert Sackville-West
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The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War
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Nov 2021
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Robert Pike
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Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France
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Oct 2021
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Toby Green
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West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
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July 2021
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Marc Morris
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Meet the author: Marc Morris on the Anglo-Saxons
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June 2021
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Martyn Whittock
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Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World
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May 2021
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Clare Kennan
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Building St James's Spire: Louth's Guilds and Popular Piety in the Later Middle Ages
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April 2021
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Stephen Bourne
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Writing Black British histories
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March 2021
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Jonathan Phillips
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The life and legend of Sultan Saladin
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Feb 2021
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Rana Mitter
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China's good war: how World War II is shaping a new nationalism
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Feb 2021
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Katja Hoyer
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Weltkrieg: the German home front during World War I
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Jan 2021
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Anne Curry
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Anne Curry: Henry V – Henry the conqueror
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Jan 2021
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Peter Mandler
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The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870
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Oct 2020
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Jo Fox
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Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
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Aug 2020
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Michael Wood
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The Making of Early England 500-1066
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July 2020
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Local HA Branches
The HA has over 45 local branches around the country. Some of these have been able to return to their venues for their monthly talks. Others have decided to make their branch programmes online via Zoom – this provides a wonderful opportunity for you to see some of the great lectures that occur across the country as part of the HA. Check our branch calendar for full listings.
If you're a teacher don't forget that we also run our regular calendar of CPD events - view the secondary webinar calendar here and the primary calendar here.
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