The Historical Association is delighted to announce that the Medlicott Medal 2025 will be awarded to Dr Christine Counsell. The award seeks to recognise individuals from a diversity of backgrounds in their service to history. Christine will be known to many at the HA, as throughout her career she has...

Thank you for being a member of the Historical Association. Your membership is what enables the HA to continue supporting the teaching, learning and enjoyment of history at all levels, for generations to come. As part of our membership community you are important in shaping the development of the association,...

Have your say about HA News We'd love to get your feedback on your membership magazine.  Please fill out our survey here (takes about 5 minutes) Welcome to this packed spring edition of HA News. Take a look at the programme for our Annual Conference in May, including the top 10 things to do at the HA Conference,...

What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives?  Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four who did: Marie de France,...

We are saddened to hear the news that Charlotte 'Betty' Webb has passed away. Her role as a code breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War made her an essential contributor to the Allied success in the conflict. A gifted linguist and administrator, she also worked on secret...

It is five years since large parts of the world went into lockdown as Covid-19 swept the globe. It was the first pandemic in the modern era that resulted in an international co-ordinated response. Underlying this was a 21st-century understanding of health and disease. Importantly, internationally recognised bodies and NGOs...

As part of a project to identify and write biographies of all of the Jews of the medieval Lincoln Jewry, Natasha Jenman, Luka Liu, and Josh Outhwaite have been working on records of Jewish property ownership in the city across the thirteenth century. This allows them to identify those individuals who will be...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was once the largest political partnership of Europe. When Poland and Lithuania came together in the 14th century they became key to the politics and trade of goods and ideas across Europe and with Asia. The Commonwealth’s cultural, linguistic and economic influence ranged across Central and Eastern Europe...

March is Women’s History Month, so it’s time to pull out some of the great women of history. Only that is just a fragment of a not very representative picture – not least because many of the great women have already been written out of the popular narratives of history;...