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  • History Journal Early-Career Research Award

    16th April 2024

    History: Journal of the Historical Association Early-Career Research Award Eligibility: persons of any nationality who have a PhD or equivalent publishing record and who wish to engage in research into any aspect of social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history in any period of history or geographical region. An Early-Career...

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  • History Journal Mid-Career Research Award

    16th April 2024

    History: Journal of the Historical Association Mid-Career Research Award  Eligibility: persons of any nationality who have a PhD or equivalent publishing record and who wish to engage in research into any aspect of social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history in any period of history or geographical region. A Mid-Career...

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  • The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union

    Article

    Want to learn more about the connections between African Americans and the Soviet Union? Read this blog post by Andrew Jacobs introducing his recent article ‘The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans and the Promise of the Soviet Union’. Angela Davis has been in the spotlight for...

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  • Call for Papers: Ideas of Europe and Images of Russia

    27th February 2024

    XV Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of Idea of Europe University of East Anglia, School of History – Norwich 19-21 June 2024   The geo-cultural relationship between Europe and Russia has been a source of intrigue for scholars, historians, philosophers, novelists, and politicians since at least the late seventeenth...

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  • History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

    Article

    The History journal team are delighted to launch their first in a series of films interviewing the authors at the cutting edge of historical research. Today, we are thrilled to welcome John Morrill, professor emeritus of the University of Cambridge and emeritus fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Dr Joel...

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  • Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog

    Article

    Image: Social media sites have provided a platform for fierce debates about the statues of slave traders such as Edward Colston. Even if we think the so-called ‘culture war’ is an overinflated red herring, there’s no denying that some of the fiercest debates about history are occurring online. Contests over...

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  • History on the Web – previous blog posts

    17th March 2021

    Current and new posts (from January 2024) will appear at History blog on the HA website. Below are all the previous blog posts from Jan 2022 to May 2023:  Crowns and controversies: the politics of King Charles III’s coronation (May 2023) Interview with Jessica A. Fernandez de Lara Harada on Othered Histories of...

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