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The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Catherine Lloyd introduces us to an international heritage initiative to celebrate ‘spa’ culture.
From ancient times, people believed that gods and spirits brought the means of natural healing. Step back in time to imagine an eerie wilderness, a glade in a wood, or a pool by a river, where the snow...
The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe
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History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles
Towards the end of the Bronze Age, the climate across Europe began to warm. This...
History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe
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The Historian 32
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3 Feature: Aggressive but Unsuccessful: Louis XIV and the European Struggle - Jeremy Black
10 Update: The Reign of Richard II, 1377-1399 - Alison McHardy
13 Education Forum: National Curriculum History: A Framework for the Future - Sue Bennett
14 Forum: Archive Services in Danger - Rosemary Dunhill
14 Reconstructing...
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Real Lives: Rebecca West
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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: Rebecca West
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3 Feature: A Prisoner's Pursuits: the Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, Gordon R. Batho
10 Record Linkage: Sir Lewis Harcourt and the Foreign Office Telegrams July 1914, Keith Wilson
13 Update: English Politics and Society in the Eighteenth Century, Bill Speck
16 HUDG: Middle Age Spread, John Boume
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Out and About in Stockholm
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When Désirée Clary – wife of French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte – arrived in Stockholm in 1811, she was appalled. It was true that she would eventually become Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway, her husband having been elected heir-presumptive to the throne the previous year. But she left her new capital...
Out and About in Stockholm
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The Historian 13
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3 Feature: Fiume 1919, John di Folco
6 Feature: Republicanism in Victorian Britain, Robert Woodall
10 Update: The Origins of the Cold War, John Young
14 Education Forum: Michael Biddiss, Alex Cowan
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The Historian 14
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3 Feature: Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution, Hugh Cunningham
10 Anniversary: 200 — Not Out! Bicentenary of Lord's Cricket Ground
12 Education Forum: History from 14 to 16, Martin Roberts
13 Local History: The Countryside: History and Pseudo-History, Oliver Rackham
19 Interpretation: How Wicked were Irish Landlords? David-Paterson
23 Personalia: Profile...
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The Historian 15
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3 Feature: The Tudor Princes of Wales, P.R. Roberts
10 Update: Germany 1860-1918, V.R. Berghahn
13 Education Forum: History at 16 to 18, Eric Evans
14 Local History: Some Social History Premises, Norman McCord
18 Personalia: Past Presidents, W. Norton-Medlicott
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3 Feature: Reflections on the Armada Campaign, A.N. Ryan
10 Europe: Adventure in Understanding, Frederic Delouche
11 Update: Women in America, Margaret Walsh
14 Education: History in Primary Schools, Ann Low-Beer
15 Eyewitness: Letters from Nuremberg, Ron Brooks
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3 Feature: The Glorious Revolution in England after 300 years, K.H.D. Haley
10 Education Forum: History in Adult Education
11 Record Linkage: Among My Souvenirs, Roger Whiting
14 Update: Spain: the centuries of greatness and decline, I.A.A. Thompson
17 Portfolio: Alice in the Middle Ages, Patrick Abbott
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The Historian 19
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3 Feature: Remembering Australia, K.S. Inglis
10 Update: Anglo-Saxon England, Henry Loyn
12 Comment: Curiouser and Curiouser, Colin Richmond
13 Portfolio: Cabinets of Curiosities, R. W. Unwin
18 Historical Reconstruction, Peter Brears
19 Education Forum: The Lost Generation? George Bernard
20 Local History: Shall I buy a Computer? David Short
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The Historian 20
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3 Feature: The Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, C N.L Brooke
10 Update: The Industrial Revolution, John J. Mason
13 Local History: Laxton: England's Last Open Field Village, John Beckett
17 Education Forum: The School History Question, Roger Hennessey
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The Historian 21
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3 Feature: Sick people, health and doctors in Georgian England - Roy Porter
7 Portfolio: The life and death of Colonel Blimp - Kevin Jefferys
10 Update: The French Revolution - Norman Hampson
24 Education Forum: Pushing for the past - Nicholas Reeves
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The Historian 22
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3 Feature: Palmerston, Man of Paradox, Muriel E. Chamberlain
10 Interpretation: Emperor Hirohito and Japanese History, Alan G.R. Smith
12 Local History: Vernacular Architecture and its Study, R. W. Brunskill
16 Update: The Crusades, Malcolm Bather
19 Education Forum: History 1989, Reform or Reaction, Christine Lloyd
20 Portfolio: Sinews of Wan Royalist Finances...
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The Historian 23
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3 Feature: Women in the Two World Wars, Penny Summer
10 Update: Modern India; Imperialism and Nationalism 1880 1947, Judith M Brown
13 Record Linkage: Heraldry and the Historian, Adrian Ailes
20 Anniversary: 150 Years of Photography
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The Historian 24
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3 Feature: Napoleon and the French Revolution, Irvne Collins
10 Update: The Causes of the Second World War, Michael Dockrill
13 Education Forum: Time for Change at 'A' Level, John Fines
14 Museums: Working From Museums, Gail Durbin
18 Portfolio: Medieval Emperors and the English Kings, Dorothy Meade
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The Historian 25
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3 Feature: Francesco Crispi and the Legacy of the Rsorgimento, Christopher Duggan
9 Update: Popular Protest in Britain c.1811-1850, John Rule
24 Education Forum: Computers in the Teaching and Learning of History, Aknic Dickinson
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The Historian 26
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Martin Luther King, Jr, Adam Fairclough
10 Update: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, Chris Wrigley
13 Education Forum: History and the National Curriculum, Martin Roberts
14 Portfolio: The Rise of the English Gentry 1150-1350, Cohn Richmond
19 Museums: Berlin Museums & the Third Reich, Tom Holder
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The Historian 27
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3 Feature: The Question of Germanies, Michael Biddiss
10 Update: Britain at War 1914-1918, Keith Grieves
13 Portfolio: Moles under HQ? — Kennington Station and the First Tube Line, Neil Lloyd
14 Education Forum: History in Secondary Schools: the Scottish Experience, Mary B. Gould
15 Local History: Local History and...
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The Historian 28
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3 Feature: Japan in Perspective, Richard Tames
10 Eyewitness: One of a Luckless Tribe: Arthur Moore and the Amiens Despatch, Keith Haines
12 Record Linkage: Cartoon Corner: Curriculum Controversy Caricatured
14 Portfolio: Ramsay MacDonald: Aviator and Ac'ionman, Adrian Smith
16 Education Forum: Monsteh, History and the Young Child, Paul Noble...
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The Historian 29
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3 Feature: The Gods of Roman Britain, David Shotter
9 Update: Slavery and the Plantation System in the British Caribbean: The example of Jamaica, Verene A. Shepherd
12 In Memoriam: Dr Esmond de Beer
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3 Feature: Images: Catherine II of Russia, Enlightened Absolutism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Roger Bartlett
10 Update: Disraeli, Ian Machin
12 Portfolio: The Secret 'Iron Tongs' of Midwifery, Joyce Rushen
14 Terylene, Rex Collins
16 Local History: The Ordnance Survey: A Quick Guide for Historians, Richard Oliver
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The Historian 31
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3 Feature: Cultural Life in Latin America in the Age of the Enlightenment, John Fisher
10 Update: Spain and Portugal - From Dictatorship to Democracy, Richard Robinson
13 Portfolio: The Pageant of Monarchy: Royal Ceremonial in the Early Nineteenth Century, E.A. Smith
17 Local History: Can Our Record Offices Cope?...
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The secret diaries of William Wilberforce
Historian article
John Coffey shows us what insights can be gained from the diaries of leading abolitionist, William Wilberforce.
The diary is a distinctively modern genre... In English, the first diaries date from the Tudor era, but it is in the seventeenth century that the trickle becomes a flood. Alongside the famous...
The secret diaries of William Wilberforce
