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  • 'Veni, Vidi, Vici!'

      Historian article
    A personal reflection on Julius Caesar and the conquest of Britain Julius Caesar always brings to mind the famous dictum of Winston Churchill, ‘History will be kind to me, for I shall write it!' In his writings Julius Caesar provides a vivid and detailed account of his invasions of Britain in...
    'Veni, Vidi, Vici!'

  • Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

      Historian article
    Medieval ‘Signs and Marvels': insights into medieval ideas about nature and the cosmic order. Many aspects of life in the Middle Ages puzzle the modern reader but some are stranger than others. What can possibly explain an event reported from Orford Castle, in Suffolk? This is an amazing tale and...
    Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

  • The British Communist Party 1920-1945

      Article
    With the collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, archival material is becoming available not only on these regimes but also on communist parties in the West. Matthew Worley surveys the latest writing on the Communist Party of Great Britain. Since the collapse of Communism, a number of books...
    The British Communist Party 1920-1945

  • Edward II

      Review
    Edward II by Seymour Phillips (Yale English Monarchs, Yale University Press), 2010 679pp., £25 hard, ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 Stuck between two of the greatest medieval English monarchs his father Edward I, the ‘Hammer of the Scots' and his son Edward III, it is hardly surprising that Edward II has gained the...
    Edward II

  • Private Lives of the Tudors

      Historian article
    Tracy Borman explores the distinction between the public and private lives of the Tudor monarchs. The Tudors were renowned for their public magnificence. Perhaps more than any royal dynasty in British history, they appreciated the importance of impressing their subjects with the splendour of their dress, courts and pageantry in order to reinforce their authority. Wherever...
    Private Lives of the Tudors

  • Film: Religion and Tudor Royal Authority – discussion

      Development of Tudor Royal Authority film series
    In this film Professor Sue Doran, Jesus College, University of Oxford and Professor Steven Gunn, Merton College, University of Oxford, look at the role religion played in defining the reigns and authority of the Tudor monarchs. If you're unable to see the film below, please use the link for your Membership type:Historian...
    Film: Religion and Tudor Royal Authority – discussion

  • Harold Son of Godwin

      Classic Pamphlet
    To lecture on Harold Godwinson, earl of Wessex, King Harold II of England, in the year 1966 at Hastings is a presumption. We appear to know much about him, and yet in fact there are many gaps in knowledge. Much information, so plausible at first sight, proves unreliable on closer...
    Harold Son of Godwin

  • Bristol and the Slave Trade

      Classic Pamphlet
    Captain Thomas Wyndham of Marshfield Park in Somerset was on voyage to Barbary where he sailed from Kingroad, near Bristol, with three ships full of goods and slaves thus beginning the association of African Trade and Bristol. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Bristol was not a place of...
    Bristol and the Slave Trade

  • Dress becomes her: the appearance and apparel of Elizabeth II

      Historian article
    She never carries any money but she does carry a handbag. The way that clothes and fashion choices made by HM The Queen are part of her modern armour and reflect her choices as a monarch as discussed in this article. As debates about the relevance of the institution of monarchy within Britain...
    Dress becomes her: the appearance and apparel of Elizabeth II

  • Cambridge

      Article
    Elisabeth Leedham-Green reflects on reality in the famous university town of Cambridge. This is a sharp place, best encountered when, as surprisingly often, the sun is shining and there is frost in the air. Then the stone sparkles and seems to float a few inches above the gleaming grass —...
    Cambridge

  • Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era

      Article
    For European states in the early modern era the Ottoman empire represented a huge trading bloc, stretching at its height from Hungary in the west to Iran in the east, from Ukraine in the north to Egypt in the south, and along the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the...
    Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era

  • Exploring local sources

      Historian article
    Tim Lomas was correct when he said, in his article in the Summer 2019 edition of The Historian, that historians can see much more in medieval documents than the scribes intended.  Lay manors in Bedfordshire are a good example. Eggington manor, in the south-west, was part of a larger estate and held...
    Exploring local sources

  • Recorded webinar: Maya ruler King Pakal II of Palenque

      Article
    The discovery in 1952 of the tomb of King Pakal II of Palenque has been called the most important archaeological find in the history of the Americas. Protected by a magnificently sculpted stone sarcophagus depicting Pakal’s descent to the underworld and re-birth as the maize god lay the body of...
    Recorded webinar: Maya ruler King Pakal II of Palenque

  • The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

      Historian article
    Adam Simmons draws our attention to the need for further research into the relationship between the medieval Kingdoms of Ethiopia and Nubia – a fascinating time and place in African history which is neglected in the historical archive and about which, so far, there are only limited sources. The kingdoms of Ethiopia...
    The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

  • Local History Month 2026

      30th April 2026
    (and some planning ahead for 2027)  May is Local and Community History month. For 2026 we are linking it to the National Year of Reading by looking at the importance of writers and local records to historians for bringing a place to life. Places change: that is inevitable and also...
    Local History Month 2026

  • The Oxford Movement and Anglican Ritualism

      Classic Pamphlet
    The English Reformation of the Sixteenth century had been a compromise, both politically and theologically. The administrative framework of the medieval church, with its system of church courts, private patronage, pluralism, the social and financial gulf between the lower and higher clergy, its inadequacy of clerical education and its hierarchical...
    The Oxford Movement and Anglican Ritualism

  • The Historian 151: Branches

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 8 Cinderella dreams: young love in postwar Britain – Carol Dyhouse (Read article) 14 The secret diaries of William Wilberforce – John Coffey (Read article) 20 Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century – Christine Fox (Read article) 25 The cultural...
    The Historian 151: Branches

  • Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History

      Branch History
    History of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch of the Historical AssociationThe Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole branch of the HA was founded in December 1922 and has been in existence ever since. Its history can be followed in the annual reports sent to HQ, in the complete set of committee...
    Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History

  • Tudor queens: power, identity and gender

      Historian article
    Gregory Gifford investigates the cultural issues raised by the sixteenth century‘s reigning queens. In 1877 when Sitting Bull led his Lakota people across the border into Canada, he told them they were entering ‘The land of The Grandmother’ – a wonderful phrase to express Queen Victoria’s matriarchal authority. Three hundred years earlier...
    Tudor queens: power, identity and gender

  • Women and power

      Historian members' resource spotlight
    Echoing the theme of the autumn issue of The Historian, this resource highlight examines aspects of the broad theme of women and power. We start by looking at some of the most overtly powerful women in history, from well-known Tudor monarchs to lesser-examined figures such as Æthelflæd. Power can be wielded in other...
    Women and power

  • Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander

  • Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History

      Branch History
    The Branch is proud of its role in the foundation of the Historical Association in 1906.  Professor Thomas Frederick Tout and others at Manchester University had been discussing the idea of forming an Association to promote the teaching of a more relevant and vibrant form of history than was currently...
    Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History

  • Volunteering in Heritage

      Briefing Pack
    Rachel Clark, Volunteering Adviser, National Trust has written a useful mini guide to getting a volunteering placement which can be found here. There are many different organisations across the UK dedicated to preserving our cultural heritage. If you want to take part in their work there are lots of wonderful ways and opportunities open...
    Volunteering in Heritage

  • Essex Branch History

      Branch History
    Essex Branch - Early DaysEssex Branch was founded in 1920 or earlier and was active continuously until 1936.  In 1920-1 the president was H. de Havilland of The Manor House, Great Horkesley, and the secretary Mr. E.T. Baldwin of Earls Colne Grammar School.  There were 56 branch members and 8...
    Essex Branch History

  • Museum Education

      Reading List
    Museum Education Reading List provided by the Victoria and Albert Museum Allen, D. A. 'Museums and Education.' Museums in Modern Life: Seven Papers Read Before the Royal Society of the Arts in March, April and May 1949, 86-106. London: RSA, 1949. NAL pressmark: 22.N.17 American Association of Museums. Excellence and...
    Museum Education