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  • Building new futures by rewriting the past: how operas have recreated history

      Historian article
    Simon Banks investigates how the past has been presented in European opera, revealing intriguing insights into the development of the modern world. The way a civilisation views its past shapes the way it acts in the present. Over the 400-year history of opera, opera plots have re-told, re-invented and re-evaluated...
    Building new futures by rewriting the past: how operas have recreated history

  • Film: A short history of Islamic thought

      Article
    In his book of the same name, A short history of Islamic thought, Dr Fitzroy Morrissey provides a concise introduction to the origins and sources of Islamic thought, from its beginnings in the 7th century to the current moment. In this talk he explores the major ideas and introduces the...
    Film: A short history of Islamic thought

  • The Historian 138: Hidden stories of a centenary

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    This edition of The Historian is open-access to all (including all linked articles). For a subscription to The Historian (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality podcasts and films, free short courses and Virtual Branch talks, membership of a thriving community of history-lovers and much more, join the HA today. 4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read...
    The Historian 138: Hidden stories of a centenary

  • Film: The Two German Economies

      Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991
    The speed at which both sides in Germany recovered economically is re-examined in this film. Professor Matthew Stibbe describes how the West Germany economy recovered and became a magnet for migrants as well as East Germans. However, he also examines how East Germany’s economy compared more successfully to some of...
    Film: The Two German Economies

  • Film: The Ruin of All Witches

      Life and Death in the New World
    Professor Malcom Gaskill joined the HA Virtual Branch on Thursday 10 December 2022 to discuss the subject of his book, The Ruin of all Witches, Life and Death in the New World, which was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in 2022. His research explores the attitudes, beliefs and treatment of people as...
    Film: The Ruin of All Witches

  • The emergence of the first civilisations

      Historian article
    Paul Bracey – The emergence of civilisations provided fundamental changes in the capacity for human development. This said, they exhibited similarities, differences, frailties, negative and positive attributes and should be related to a broadly based appreciation of the past. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the assumption was that...
    The emergence of the first civilisations

  • The rise and fall of Nauru

      Historian article
    Aadam Patel offers an insight into the complexities of the recent economic history of a remote Pacific island. Nauru is an isolated island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately 4,400km north-east from Australia and 1,300km north-east from the Solomon Islands. With an area of just below 21 squared kilometres, it is...
    The rise and fall of Nauru

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to renowned historian and author Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch who is currently Professor of the Church at Oxford. His 2008 book History of Christianity: the first three thousand years is the leading authority on the history...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • A land without music?

      Historian article
    It is sometimes said that England was a ‘land without music’ in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – not so, according to David Fleming. ‘Between the age of Purcell and that of Elgar and Parry, we had to do without much musical life in our country.’ Or so wrote Simon...
    A land without music?

  • Arctic aspirations: Britain and Icelandic independence, 1917–18

      Historian article
    As it sought independence, Iceland gained a new significance for Britain during the latter stages of the First World War, writes Ben Markham.  At the turn of the twentieth century, Iceland was not an independent country. Isolated in the North Atlantic Ocean, it was nonetheless considered an integral part of...
    Arctic aspirations: Britain and Icelandic independence, 1917–18

  • Slavery, child labour, or a grand day out? Hull’s agricultural hiring fairs, 1870–1950

      Historian article
    Agricultural hiring fairs – now largely forgotten –performed multiple social functions and were an intriguing aspect of rural life, writes Stephen Caunce. Over the last three decades, long-established British newspapers have endured a steady dwindling of staff, depth of reporting and public respect. Paradoxically, however, the digitalising of old content has...
    Slavery, child labour, or a grand day out? Hull’s agricultural hiring fairs, 1870–1950

  • The Mary Celeste: the history of a mystery

      Historian article
    Graham Faiella guides us through the historical evidence and literary speculation surrounding one of the ultimately unresolved incidents of recent times. One hundred and fifty years ago, sometime between 25 November and 4 December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was abandoned at sea somewhere between the Azores and the coast of Portugal....
    The Mary Celeste: the history of a mystery

  • The Historian 137: Branches

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 HA Conference 8 A year in the life of a branch co-ordinator – Jenni Hyde (Read article) 14 Private Lives of the Tudors – Tracy Borman (Read article) 19 The President’s Column 20 Good Evening Sweetheart: experiences of an ordinary couple in the...
    The Historian 137: Branches

  • Real Lives: Jessie Reid Crosbie

      Historian feature
    Alyson Brown, Dan Copley and Jack Bennett uncover the life of a reforming Liverpool headmistress. 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...
    Real Lives: Jessie Reid Crosbie

  • My Favourite History Place: Burton Agnes Hall

      Historian article
    David Hockney’s landscape paintings of the Yorkshire Wolds in the 1990s alerted people to the peculiar beauty of the East Riding but the region remains strangely unknown and unvisited, especially the small, scattered villages inland from the coast. Yet the village of Burton Agnes, on the road between Driffield and Bridlington,...
    My Favourite History Place: Burton Agnes Hall

  • History Abridged: American Policy: theory and practice over 200 years

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: In this feature we take a person, time, theme or event and tell you the vast rich history in small space. A long dip into history in a shortened form. See all History Abridged articles The ‘Monroe Doctrine’ in 1825 provided a cornerstone for future United States foreign policy. Drafted...
    History Abridged: American Policy: theory and practice over 200 years

  • Out and About in Ardmore, County Waterford

      Historian article
    Within the historic landscape it is frequently possible to identify the impact of deeply religious figures who have exercised very real and long-lasting spiritual influence on their communities and indeed on the very landscape itself.Often these are shadowy figures in a distant past where myth and history intertwine. Sometimes it is...
    Out and About in Ardmore, County Waterford

  • ‘The story of her own wretchedness’: heritage and homelessness

      Historian article
    David Howell uses eighteenth-century beggars at Tintern Abbey as a starting point for his research into the use of heritage sites by the homeless. In 1782, the Reverend William Gilpin published his Observations on the River Wye, a notable contribution to the emerging picturesque movement. A key element of his work is a commentary on Tintern Abbey....
    ‘The story of her own wretchedness’: heritage and homelessness

  • Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

      Article
    Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski is a historian based at the University of Oxford. He specialises in the history of the Cold War and is particularly interested in the history of Soviet social, cultural, and political interactions with Eastern Europe after 1945. In 2017, he published a book entitled The Near Abroad:...
    Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 18

      Branch publication
    3. Editorial 4. The Marriage at Cana – Dr John Law 8. Stinging Nettle Soup – Trevor Fishlock 10. Dining with Dylan – Peter Read 12. Carbs with Everything – Ian Smith 14. Life as I Found it – John Russell & John Ashley 17. Masonic Dining Swansea – Professor...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 18

  • My great-grandfather and the Italian Campaign

      Historian article
    This remarkable item by a student at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield was the winning Young Historian entry in the Key Stage 3 Spirit of Normandy Trust category in 2022. I’ve always known my great-grandfather fought in the Second World War, but never like this. When he left the army, he never...
    My great-grandfather and the Italian Campaign

  • Film: Rome in the world/the world in Rome with Dr Lucy Donkin

      Article
    To give you a taster of the fantastic sessions on offer at the HA's annual conference, we've published one of the sessions from the 2022 HA Conference on Rome in the world/the world in Rome with Dr Lucy Donkin.   In many cultures, earth has been used to represent a place...
    Film: Rome in the world/the world in Rome with Dr Lucy Donkin

  • The Historian 136: 1967 - A Year of Change

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Homosexuality in Britain since 1967 – Harry Cocks (Read article) 12 Reviews 13 The President’s Column 14 The origins and development of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights movement in Britain from 1960 to the present – Professor Sally R. Munt (Read...
    The Historian 136: 1967 - A Year of Change

  • Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932

      Historian article
    Historical research takes place in many forms and in many locations. This research, which has been translated for us, introduces us to an heroic pioneering Ukrainian woman surgeon. During the Spring of 1932 in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, on a sunny day in March, a very small group of...
    Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932

  • Doomed to fail: America’s intervention in Vietnam

      Historian article
    Why did American military involvement in Vietnam fail?  In this article, David McGill explains why the United States never had a realistic chance of defeating the North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies. The decision by the United States government to become involved in supporting the South Vietnamese government against the...
    Doomed to fail: America’s intervention in Vietnam