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  • Film: A conversation on Goethe with A.N. Wilson

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  • Virtual Branch: The cultural world of Elizabethan England

    13th December 2024

    In this Virtual Branch talk Professor Emma Smith provides a preview of her current research, which explores the lives and cultural undercurrents of Elizabethan England. What was influencing their cultural tastes and how much of it was new, or had it all been seen before? Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies...

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  • New editorial team for the journal ‘History’

    26th November 2024

    The Historical Association is pleased to announce a new editorial team of the journal History. The Humanities Department of Northumbria University will be hosting an outstanding group of academics and scholars as the new commissioners and editors of the journal which was founded in 1912. Becky Sullivan, CEO of the...

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  • Virtual Branch: Humans

    21st November 2024

    In this Virtual Branch talk, Dr Alvin Finkel challenges claims that egalitarian, peaceful societies disappeared with the founding of agriculture or with the founding of state-level social organisation.  Different authors have suggested that early human society was essentially egalitarian in nature, with hierarchies only later becoming common. The point at which...

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  • The Historian 163: Out now

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  • Get involved in ‘The Historian’

    15th October 2024

    The Historian is a members’ magazine and we want to hear from you. We know that many of our readers are actively involved in history in some way and we would love you to share your stories with other members – who knows what you might inspire! The editorial board...

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  • Virtual Branch: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society

    1st October 2024

    Red Lion Square was long one of London's most genteel addresses, home to nobles, scholars, and professionals. But on 25 March 1818, one house on the south side opened its doors to quite another class of person, as the Mendicity Society began its business. Set up to solve the growing...

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  • HA News, Autumn 2024

    11th September 2024

    Welcome to the autumn edition of HA News. We have updates on the office team's move back into 59a, and HA President Alexandra Walsham's busy six months travelling the country supporting the HA and its activities, as well as membership, education and competition updates. Dr Dean A. Irwin shares ‘What got me into...

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  • Helen Snelson, 1969–2024

    30th August 2024

    It is with deep regret that we share the news that our good friend, supporter and Deputy President Helen Snelson passed away at the end of August. After her cancer recurred, she spent her final few days with her husband David, close family and friends. Helen was a passionate history...

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  • Film series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union

    13th August 2024

    We are delighted to present a new film series examining leadership in Russia and the USSR over the course of the twentieth century. Russia and its history often fascinates the rest of us in Europe as well as horrifying us. She has been our friend and ally, and our physical and ideological...

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