Events

Our 45 branches across the country each put on around 10 lectures a year, on all aspects and periods of history. To find out what’s going on at a branch near you see our Branch programmes pages, or you can view all Branch events in our calendar.

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  • Your HA Virtual Branch

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    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....

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  • Historian events calendar - Autumn 2025

    27th March 2024

    One of the HA’s aims is to bring you accessible and enjoyable history wherever you are based and whatever amount of time you have to dedicate to it. That's why we work to put together a regular programme of events with a variety of formats and delivery. You might prefer...

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  • Assassins and Templars – A battle in myth and blood

    16th December 2025

    The Assassins and the Templars are two of history’s most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Violently opposed, they had vastly different reputations, followings, and ambitions. Yet they developed strikingly similar strategies―and their intertwined stories have,...

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  • HA Webinar: Tsarist imperial society and ethnicity

    25th November 2025

    A specialist in late-Imperial Russian society and ethnicities, including the Cossacks, Dr O’Rourke will explore society under the last three Tsars, examining Russification in the western Russian borderlands, Russian settler colonialism, the Caucasus and deportation, and current historiographical trends.

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  • HA Webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism

    21st October 2025

    The Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini understood more than other leaders of his generation the power of images and used them to great effect in building his personality cult which was central to Italian Fascism. In this illustrated webinar we will explore the evolution of the iconography of the Duce...

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  • Daring to be free: Rebellion and resistance of the enslaved in the Atlantic world

    13th October 2025

    This talk will explore the struggle for liberation from the perspective of the enslaved, wherever possible in their own words. He will shine a light on the lives of revolutionaries like Toussaint Louverture, José Antonio Aponte, Nat Turner, and the pregnant rebel Solitude; touching on the stories of the freed...

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  • HA Webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

    23rd September 2025

    The East Anglian witch hunt under Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed Witchfinder General, has garnered a great deal of popular and historical interest over the years. An image has developed of a zealous, misogynistic young man serving crazed 'justice' against supposed witches, whipping up panic and turning neighbours against each other in...

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  • Why is 2025 not 2015 the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta?

    23rd September 2025

    David Carpenter is a leading authority on the history of Britain in the central middle ages. In recent months he has been key to the discovery and validation of the Magna Carta Document in the United States. In this talk he will use the recent work in this area to...

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  • Queer Georgians – a Q&A with the author Anthony Delaney

    22nd September 2025

    Queer Georgians – in this dazzling work of restorative history, Dr Anthony Delaney has traced the stories of people daring to challenge society's expectations, unearthing archives and court records to reveal the tragedies and the joys of queer life three centuries ago. Breathing new life into the forgotten and offering...

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  • Explore Historian Membership

    21st August 2025

    Whether you’ve just joined, are thinking about becoming a member, or simply want to get more out of your Historian membership, this free online session is the perfect place to start. Our Membership and Public Engagement Managers Emily and Paula will guide you through the benefits available to you with...

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