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The Historian 34
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Looking Back on the Levellers, Austin Woolrych
10 Update: The Vietnam War, Peter Riddick
13 Education Forum: History in the National Curriculum and All That: Year One, Ian Coulson
14 Communications: County Records Office, F.B. Stitt
18 Local History: Managing the Past: Archaeology in the National Parks, Robert...
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Real Lives: Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
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Patrick J Pead writes about a truly remarkable woman whose contribution to advances in medicine deserves far wider recognition.
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...
Real Lives: Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
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Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium
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My Favourite History Place: Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium
We can truly say that the whole circuit of the Earth is girdled with the graves of our dead. In the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace...
Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium
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Out & About in Swansea Castle
Historian feature
The ruins of Swansea Castle stand at the edge of Swansea's shopping centre and are generally ignored by shoppers and passers-by who just ... well ... pass by. But this was to change to some extent in 2012, and the HA's Swansea Branch adopted a very close relationship with the...
Out & About in Swansea Castle
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Out and about in Martinsthorpe: a walk in the country
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History is nothing if not an exercise in informed imagination. On a country walk in Rutland arranged by a group of (non-historian) friends, I noted that the Ordnance Survey map showed our planned route, following a ridge of high ground separating the valleys of the meandering Gwash and Chater rivers,...
Out and about in Martinsthorpe: a walk in the country
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Real Lives: Who was Sir John Steell?
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: Who was Sir John Steell?
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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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The Historian 32
The magazine of the Historical Association
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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The Historian 47
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: A Democratic Experiment: France in 1848 - Olena and Colin Heywood
10 Profile: Always Splendid and Never Isolated: Lord Salisbury and the Public Scene, 1830 to 1903 - Michael Hurst
15 Education Forum: Domesday Dearing? - Martin Light
16 Update: Sir Robert Walpole's Black Box - Philip Woodfine
19 Short Feature: 'Indispensible Yet...
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The Long Winding Road to the White House
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The Long Winding Road to the White House: caucuses, primaries and national party conventions in the history of American presidential elections
Almost the Last Hurrah
At last we know officially. In late August at their 40th national convention in Tampa, Florida, the Republican party formally nominated its candidates to run...
The Long Winding Road to the White House
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Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to 'freeborn John'
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When was Magna Carta launched on its modern career as a symbol of freedom and liberty? Justin Champion looks at the role of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century lawyers and politicians in shaping how we see the Charter today.
‘For every person who knows what the contents of Magna Carta actually...
Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to 'freeborn John'
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Magna Carta: oblivion and revival
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Magna Carta was to go through a number of revisions before it finally took its place on the statute book. Nicholas Vincent takes us through the twists and turns of the tale of the Charter's death and revival after June 1215.
The Charter issued by King John at Runnymede is...
Magna Carta: oblivion and revival
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Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting
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Joe Smith, Kim Hammond and George Revill share some of the findings of their work examining what digital broadcast archives are available and which could be made available in future.
The BBC’s archives hold over a million hours of programmes, dating back to the 1930s (radio) and 1940s (television). It...
Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting
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British organised youth and the First World War
Historian article
This posthumously published article by John Springhall was presented to us, with recommended illustrations, shortly before his death. It reflects his interest in popular culture and how people lived their lives in quite a remarkable manner.
Adult-directed British uniformed youth movements played a significant but often overlooked role during the...
British organised youth and the First World War
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The Historian 38
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: England in the 1690s: The Emergence of the Fiscal-Military State, W.A. Speck
10 Update: English Rural Society, 1750-1914, John Beckett
13 Portfolio: Propagandist Decrees and French Revolutionary Expansion, Michael Rapport
18 Local History: Britian's Industrial Heritage, Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson
22 Personalia: Marjorie Reeves
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Real Lives: The Russian hermit of Cornwall’s caves
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: The Russian hermit of Cornwall’s caves
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The Historian 76: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 2002 Medlicott Lecture: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty - Ben Pimlott (Read article)
16 The Irish historians’ role and the place of history in Irish national life - George Boyce (Read article)
20 The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Ritchie Ovendale (Read article)
28 Archbishops...
The Historian 76: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty
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Real Lives: Flora Sandes
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: Flora Sandes
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A Zeppelin VC remembered
Historian article
Ronan Thomas introduces the bravery of Rex Warneford who was the first pilot successfully to bring down a Zeppelin in 1915.
Rex Warneford was one of Britain’s ‘bravest of the brave’. A Royal Navy fighter pilot during the First World War, he was awarded the Victoria Cross by King George...
A Zeppelin VC remembered
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Excluded by men? Joanna the Mad, patriarchy and a charge of insanity
Historian article
Glyn Redworth re-appraises the life of an unfortunate queen.
Joanna of Castile was a pretty child. She had an oval face and a long delicate nose. Her skin was felt to be attractively light in colour as was her hair. Fiercely intelligent, the basics of Latin came easily to her....
Excluded by men? Joanna the Mad, patriarchy and a charge of insanity
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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
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The Historian 62: Catherine de Medici
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Is History Dangerous? - Eric Hobsbawm (Read article)
6 Britain and the formation of NATO - Carl Watts (Read article)
12 Sir William Petty: Scientist, Economist, Inventor 1623-87 - John Adams (Read article)
15 Durham: a personal perspective - G.R. Batho (Read article)
18 Catherine de Medici and the...
The Historian 62: Catherine de Medici
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Have gun, will travel: The myth of the frontier in the Hollywood Western
Historian article
The Western movies that from around 1910 until the 1960s made up at least a fifth of all the American film titles on general release signified escapist entertainment for British audiences: an alluring vision of vast open spaces, of cowboys on horseback outlined against an imposing landscape.
For Americans themselves,...
Have gun, will travel: The myth of the frontier in the Hollywood Western
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Out and About - On the Track of Brunel
Historian feature
In ‘Brushstrokes', his essay on biography, Ben Pimlott wrote: ‘A good biography is like a good portrait: it captures the essence of the sitter by being much more than a likeness. A good portrait is about history, philosophy, milieu. It asks questions as well as answering them, brushstrokes are economical,...
Out and About - On the Track of Brunel
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The Historian 42
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles
3 Feature: The British Empire and the Peace Conferences 1919-1923 - Michael Dockrill
9 Update: Taking Stock of Crime - Clive Emsley
13 Biography: When the Kissing had to Stop: Passion in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft - Susan Alendus
17 Local History: The VCH: Past, Present and Future - Kate Tiller...
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