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  • Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign

      Historian article
    Following the successful filming of his book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, Roald Dahl has an international reputation as a children’s writer. There is, however, a macabre dimension to his writing underlined by his successful TV series ‘Tales of the Unexpected’. Dark episodes in Dahl’s highly successful career touched his...
    Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign

  • The Wonderful Land of Oz

      Article
    In the year of the centenary of the first publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.Frank Baum, Douglas Horlock considers its political and intellectual context. On 7 May 1898, Frank Baum sat down in his Chicago home with a group of children including his sons. As on other...
    The Wonderful Land of Oz

  • The Olympics - politics, impact and legacy - its not just about the sport

      Article
    2024 is an Olympic Games year. Held every four years (with the exception of during the World Wars and Covid-19 restrictions), the modern Olympics is the largest international sporting event in the world. However, historically it has not always been just the sports that are played and the athletes’ performances...
    The Olympics - politics, impact and legacy - its not just about the sport

  • The ‘Silk Roads’: the use and abuse of a historical concept

      Historian article
    The question of whether the ‘Silk Road/s’ is a useful concept for historical analysis, or too vague or too all-encompassing to have interpretative value, is one that scholars have been debating ever since the term moved into the cultural and scholarly mainstream. Although the use of the term in marketing does not often...
    The ‘Silk Roads’: the use and abuse of a historical concept

  • Recorded webinar: Black Germans: the last forgotten victims of the Nazis?

      Article
    In this webinar, Professor Robbie Aitken looks at the experiences of Black residents in Germany during the Nazi period. Why have they been largely written out of larger histories of the Third Reich? Professor Aitken suggests that there was a genocidal intent in Nazi policy towards them, signalled partly by...
    Recorded webinar: Black Germans: the last forgotten victims of the Nazis?

  • Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport

      Historian article
    The early 2020s have seen various investigations and reports about discrimination in English cricket. As well as finding many examples of racial and gender prejudice, these investigations have unearthed a long history of social elitism in the sport. In this article, Duncan Stone explores some of the historical background to...
    Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport

  • Out and About in ‘The most Loyal and Ancient City of Taunton’

      Historian feature
    The Somerset town of Taunton featured prominently in the highly significant political and religious conflicts of the seventeenth century. Isabella Peach examines Taunton’s role in these events and the impact they had on the town. Her article is based on her winning entry in the 2023 Young Historian Post-16 Local...
    Out and About in ‘The most Loyal and Ancient City of Taunton’

  • The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945

      Historian article
    Throughout the Second World War the BBC produced and transmitted regular broadcasts in German to Germany and other European countries occupied by the Germans. In this article Hattie Simpson evaluates the style and success of the BBC German Service. The article is based on her winning entry in the senior...
    The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945

  • The circle of Ulster literary male friendships of author Forrest Reid

      Historian article
    Eminent Ulster novelist Forrest Reid was a complex character, reflecting a variety of attitudes in both his writing and his private life. In this article Michael Kelly examines how Reid and his circle of friends aimed to navigate their way through the changes of the early twentieth century, in both...
    The circle of Ulster literary male friendships of author Forrest Reid

  • History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

      History journal blog
    The History journal team are delighted to launch their first in a series of films interviewing the authors at the cutting edge of historical research. Today, we are thrilled to welcome John Morrill, professor emeritus of the University of Cambridge and emeritus fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Dr Joel...
    History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

  • Short course: Britain and the Second World War - a global conflict | sessions and resources

      Multipage Article
    This resource unit accompanies and supports our short course on Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict. The materials below are available to you exclusively as a registered participant on the course. (If you have not already registered you can do so here.)
    Short course: Britain and the Second World War - a global conflict | sessions and resources

  • The Legacy of the Z Special Unit in World War II

      Historian article
    The Spirit of Normandy Trust Essay Competition is aimed at young historians and organised by the Historical Association (as part of the annual Young Historian Awards). The 2023 winner in the Key Stage 3 (lower secondary school) category is Ayan Sinha, a pupil at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield. In this abridged...
    The Legacy of the Z Special Unit in World War II

  • The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

      Historian article
    The Nazis came to power in 1933 with an openly racist and antisemitic set of policies. In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, those policies were carried out through legislation and governmental actions, with the support of many members of German society. Once the war started,...
    The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

  • Out and about in the East Yorkshire Wolds

      Historian feature
    East Yorkshire is a somewhat neglected area for touring. Yet, the villages in the chalk Wolds possess much charm and a lot of surprising history to reward those who would explore them. In my youth, I toured these villages many times both on foot and by bicycle. This route is...
    Out and about in the East Yorkshire Wolds

  • ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing

      Historian article
    As the value of music education is again a topic of societal debate, Tudor composer William Byrd, the four hundredth anniversary of whose death is celebrated this year, was a powerful advocate of singing in early modern England, writes Katherine Butler. Tudor composer William Byrd (c.1540–1623) is recognised today not only...
    ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing

  • A history of Choral Evensong: the birth of an English tradition

      Historian article
    The apogee of the native church music tradition, Evensong is a jewel born of the English Reformation, but how did it come to be, asks Tom Coxhead? Evensong is a miraculous success-story for the Anglican Church in an increasingly secular society. Midweek attendance at cathedrals, collegiate chapels, and larger churches...
    A history of Choral Evensong: the birth of an English tradition

  • 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

  • Crusade in Crisis: the Siege and Battle of Antioch, 1097–98

      Historian article
    On 28 June 1098, the forces of the First Crusade marched out from the great north Syrian city of Antioch to do battle with Karbugha, the Muslim ruler of Mosul. The odds were not in their favour: not only was the Muslim army vastly superior in size, but the crusaders had...
    Crusade in Crisis: the Siege and Battle of Antioch, 1097–98

  • Virtual Branch recording: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom

      The Black Crown
    How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon's invading troops and become king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the forgotten, remarkable story of Henry Christophe. Christophe fought as a child soldier in the American War of Independence, before serving in...
    Virtual Branch recording: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom

  • Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion.

      Virtual Branch Film
    The Mongol invasions into the Near East had a devastating effect upon many societies, sultanates, empires and kingdoms. For decades, wave after wave of armies swept across the area, defeating every army sent against them and utterly reshaping the area’s complex political ecosystem. Some powers fell in battle; some submitted...
    Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion.

  • Women and the French Revolution: the start of the modern feminist movement

      Historian article
    Luke Rimmo Loyi Lego explores the role of women in the French Revolution, and how their challenges to traditional gender roles laid the foundations for the modern feminist movement.  The study of the French Revolution is often restricted to its impact on the Enlightenment ideas of influential men such as Rousseau,...
    Women and the French Revolution: the start of the modern feminist movement

  • 1914: The Coming of the First World War

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet argues that the outbreak of the First World War represented not so much the culmination of a long process started by Bismarck and his successors, as the relatively sudden breakdown of a system that had in fact preserved the peace and contained the dangerous Eastern Question for over...
    1914: The Coming of the First World War

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution

      Teaching History feature
    The British industrial revolution stands out as a pivotal moment in human history. Its timing, causes and consequences have all been major topics of historical enquiry for well over one hundred years. Many of the great Victorian commentators – Engels, Dickens, Blake to name a few – who lived through...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution

  • The Personal Rule of Charles I 1629-40

      Classic Pamphlet
    Historians are often accused of viewing the past with hindsight, or of being wise after the event. Not being prophets or soothsayers, we have to look backwards in time because we cannot look forwards. The real question is from what vantage point or perspective we view a particular part of...
    The Personal Rule of Charles I 1629-40

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

      Article
    In-person tickets to HA Annual Conference 2023 are now limited but you can still book for an incredible virtual programme. To give you a taster of the fantastic sessions on offer, we've published one of the sessions from last year's HA Conference on Rome in the world/the world in Rome with...
    Film: Rome in the world/the world in Rome with Dr Lucy Donkin