Public History
Public history is all around us, it brings together heritage, archives, museums, local history societies, history professionals, and active amateurs. Public history is the engagement with history for different groups and professionals but with a level of expertise outside of the fixed university environment (even though some universities have public history departments). It is all of the staff at the Historical Association and many of its members. It is about acknowledging historical knowledge, employment, need and expertise beyond the lecture theatre and into the every day. Read more
Heritage
- The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Out and About in Wheathampstead
- Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns
- My Favourite History Place: Swarkestone Bridge
- Petit’s impact on our understanding of Victorian life and culture
- My Favourite History Place: Queen Square, Bath
Local & Community
- Local and Community History Month
- Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns
- Real Lives: The Russian hermit of Cornwall’s caves
- Out and About in South London
- Real Lives: Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial: Edward George Keeling
- The experience of Bilston in the cholera epidemic of 1831–32
Archives & Libraries
- History Abridged: Libraries
- The secret diaries of William Wilberforce
- History Abridged: The census
- What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?
- Exploring local sources
- My Favourite History Place: Gladstone’s Library at Hawarden
Museums & Galleries
- Real Lives: Robert and Thomas Gayer-Anderson
- Ancient Athenian inscriptions in public and private UK collections
- Public History Courses
- Museum Studies: A Critical Perspective
- Museum and Gallery CPD
- Museum Education