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  • Women’s History Month 2025

    28th February 2025

    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;...

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  • Poland and Lithuania: new podcasts

    28th February 2025

    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...

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  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

    20th February 2025

    Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades.  Why...

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  • The Historian 164: Out now

    Article

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  • LGBTQ+ History Month

    3rd February 2025

    It is an ever-changing world and while some are celebrating the rainbow of LGBTQ+ others are simultaneously trying to wash it away. Here at the HA we are happy to be a champion of LGBTQ+ history. We are committed to a broad and inclusive understanding of history and are pleased...

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  • Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

    21st January 2025

    The religious wars of the Crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores...

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  • Recorded webinar series: The history that Shakespeare gave us

    Multipage Article

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  • 760th anniversary of the first parliament

    6th January 2025

    January 2025 is the 760-year anniversary of Simon de Montfort calling the first parliament in 1265. Simon de Montfort can be a divisive figure, both disliked and admired in equal measure for different aspects of his recorded character and his actions. Undoubtedly a violent man, he was also responsible for...

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  • Historical anniversaries in 2025

    6th January 2025

    It’s a new year and there’s lots to look forward to – new hopes and fortunes! Of course, we also like to look back (history being our business) and so we’re excited to see that 2025 is another year packed full of anniversaries. We will be commemorating several of these...

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  • Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

    19th December 2024

    Each year on 27 January the UK observes Holocaust Memorial Day. Every year since its introduction communities, individuals, organisations and institutions have been encouraged to mark the day and remember it. The history of what is remembered is straightforward: on 27 January 1945 the Soviet Army entered into a Nazi...

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