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The Historian 40
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: China's Communist Revolution, Michael Dillon
10 Update: The Nobility in Early Modern Europe, H.M. Scott
13 Record Linkage: New Dictionary of National Biography, Colin Matthew
16 Anniversary: William Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode, H.T. Dickinson
18 Biography: Prince Arthur and the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir 1882, Noble Frankland
22...
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The Somme: a last innings for Yorkshire and England
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Ronan Thomas explores a tragic sporting outcome of the Battle of the Somme.
At the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, the losses suffered by the British Army still have the power to shock. On 1 July 1916 alone nearly 60,000 men became casualties, of whom almost 20,000 were...
The Somme: a last innings for Yorkshire and England
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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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The Historian 148: Legacy of war
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article for free)
6 Blood and Iron: the violent birth of modern Germany – A nation forged in war – Katja Hoyer (Read article)
12 Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update – Tim Thornton (Read article)
16 Monty’s school: the benign side of Viscount...
The Historian 148: Legacy of war
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Driver Ben Cobey 8th Royal Field Artillery
Historian article
Alf Wilkinson asks why three men were awarded the Victoria Cross during the retreat from Mons in August 1914 and the fourth involved in the action wasn’t. What does that tell us about Britain during the arly days of the Great War?
In August 1914, when war broke out, the...
Driver Ben Cobey 8th Royal Field Artillery
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Waterloo's prizefight factor
Historian article
Image: 'Pierce Egan celebrates the Boxiana touch as Napoleon is floored'
David Snowdon examines the impact of the world of ‘pugilism' on the army during the Napoleonic Wars and looks at some famous boxers who perished in the battle.
By 1815, one writer, and one sporting publication, had become synonymous with...
Waterloo's prizefight factor
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Late Medieval Taxation Records
Historian article
There are more than 23,000 medieval taxation records from England and Wales in the Public Record Office alone. For many years the vast majority of them have lain undisturbed in their archive boxes, but recent work is showing the true value of some of these as historical sources and making...
Late Medieval Taxation Records
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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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Out and About in Letchworth: A Social Experiment
Historian feature
In a previous edition of The Historian (110, Summer 2011) we highlighted the midnineteenth century achievement of the industrialist John Dodgson Carr in creating the holiday resort of Silloth as a place of resort and recreation for his workers, and the wider workforce in Carlisle. So the seeds of trying...
Out and About in Letchworth: A Social Experiment
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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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Marcus Morris and Eagle
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Marcus Morris and Eagle: Approved reading for boys in the 1950s & 1960s
The National Art Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London's South Kensington held an exhibition in the first five months of 2012 devoted entirely to British adventure comics of the 1950s and 1960s, many taken...
Marcus Morris and Eagle
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Cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine
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Olha Makliuk outlines the challenges faced by Ukraine as Russia tries to rewrite the narrative of Ukrainian sovereignty. Through a process of historical and cultural appropriation as well as the destruction of monuments, she explores how history has been weaponised by the Putin regime. Finally, she considers how the impact...
Cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine
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The Historian 59: The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath
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4 The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath, by Trevor Fawcett
10 The Purpose and Political Significance of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World, by Jenny Wilson
16 Working Class Conservatism and the Rise of Labour: a case study of Birmingham in the 1920s, by John Boughton
21 A National...
The Historian 59: The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath
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The Historian 8
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Institute of Historical Research, F.M.L. Thompson
10 Domesday Celebrations: Robert Smith, John Palmer
16 Local History: The Victoria County History, C.R J. Currie
20 Past Presidents: W.N. Medlicott
31 Spotlight: Cambridge
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The Pennsylvanian Origins of British Abolitionism
Historian article
It can have escaped the attention of very few people in the United Kingdom that 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in British ships. Slavery itself continued to be legal in Britain and its colonies until the 1830s, while other nations continued both to...
The Pennsylvanian Origins of British Abolitionism
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The Historian 90: Napoleon's Women
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Letters 5 Editorial 6 HA News
8 Napoleon's Women: Skirts around a Throne - Dr Michael Broers
17 The Post Office Letter Box - Neil Lloyd
20 The Jameson Raid: Politicians, Plots and Scapegoats in South Africa - Alan Cousins
28 The King and the Bishop: Exploring the Buildings of Medieval...
The Historian 90: Napoleon's Women
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Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903
Historian article
Isabel Jones from Thomas Mills High School at Framlingham was the winner of the Young Historian Award for Local History [16-19] in 2006. The Director of the Young Historian Project, Trevor James, has edited her winning essay. It has been shortened and the footnotes removed, to enable it to fit...
Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903
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President Barack Obama and the State of the Union Address
Historian article
Introduction
Shortly after noon on 20 January 2009 Barack Obama began his historic Inaugural Address as 44th President of the United States of America. On the west porch of the Capitol, home to the US Congress, and under propitiously blue skies, the first African American president spoke before more than...
President Barack Obama and the State of the Union Address
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The Historian 19
The magazine of the Historical Association
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 44
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles
3 Heroes of the Cuban Revolution: Martí, Maceo and Gómez - Joseph Smith
9 Update: Nationalism and National Cults in England and on the Continent between the Tenth and the Twelfth Centuries - Emma Mason
12 Biography: Churchill's Wartime Radio Rival - David Smith
16 Record Linkage: The Scottish Architect...
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The Historian 86: England Arise!
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
8 England Arise! The General Election of 1945 – Keith Laybourn (Read article)
16 The Last Duke of Lorraine – Richard Arnold Jones (Read article)
23 Thomas Muir and the 'Scottish Martyrs' of the 1790s – Harry Dickinson (Read article)
36 Cheshire Country Houses and the Rise of the Nouveaux Riches –...
The Historian 86: England Arise!
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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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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
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Muddy Waters: from migrant to music icon
Historian article
Matt Jux-Blayney explores the impact of the blues singer Muddy Waters against a backdrop of significant social and racial change in the United States of the mid-twentieth century.
On 3 July 1960, a man from Mississippi was introduced onto the stage of the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. He...
Muddy Waters: from migrant to music icon
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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
