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  • The Historian 103: The Road to Dunkirk

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    The road to Dunkirk: Chamberlain, Baldwin and Appeasement - Trevor Fisher (Read Article) The President's Column - Anne Curry The ‘Penny Dreadful' publishing business in the City of London from 1860 - John Springhall (Read Article) St Deiniol's Library: The National Memorial to William Ewart Gladstone - Annette Lewis (Read Article) Towards reform in 1809 -...
    The Historian 103: The Road to Dunkirk
  • Catherine de' Medici and the French Wars of Religion

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    R. J. Knecht suggests that the 'Black Legend' may not be quite as unfair to Catherine as her defenders have argued. Few historical figures have aroused as much passionate controversy as Catherine de’ Medici who was queen of France from 1547 until 1559 and several times regent before her death...
    Catherine de' Medici and the French Wars of Religion
  • The Historian 1

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    The first ever edition of The Historian magazine, first published in Autumn 1983. The edition's editorial sets out this vision for the magazine: “The Historian lays no claim to an elaborate philosophy, but is conceived as an up-to-date and forward-looking magazine provided by and for all historians. It advances no editorial...
    The Historian 1
  • The British Communist Party 1920-1945

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    With the collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, archival material is becoming available not only on these regimes but also on communist parties in the West. Matthew Worley surveys the latest writing on the Communist Party of Great Britain. Since the collapse of Communism, a number of books...
    The British Communist Party 1920-1945
  • Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945

      Historian article
    Following Jamie Oliver’s devastating television series on the inadequacy of school meals the present government has been quick to be seen to address the situation. In September 2005, Ruth Kelly, the then Education Secretary, announced a war on junk food in schools.1 This was nothing new, because the history of...
    Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945
  • Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909

      Historian article
    Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane, fifth baronet (1861-1934), a man of wideranging but seemingly contradictory passions and interests, was an idealistic but also hard-working aristocrat who played a major role in shaping the early Boy Scout movement in London. While the name of the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert...
    Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909
  • The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions

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    Dr Michael Bush investigates the interpretations of the pilgrimage of grace. Our perception of the pilgrimage of grace has been largely created by Madeleine and Ruth Dodds and their magnificent book The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-7, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 (Cambridge). Published in 1915, it has dominated the subject...
    The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions
  • The Historian 100: A medieval credit crunch?

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    A medieval credit crunch? - Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Tony Moore (Read Article) Fascists behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain - Stephen M. Cullen (Read Article) Child labour in eighteenth century London - (Read Article) Hats on Headstones - A. D. Harvey (Read Article) Out and...
    The Historian 100: A medieval credit crunch?
  • The Tower and The Victorians: Politics and Leisure

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    At the beginning of the nineteenth century about 15,000 people visited the Tower of London each year to enjoy a spectacle which had taken shape over the previous century and a half. Patriotic tableaux, trophies of victory, vast arrays of arms and armour, the menagerie and the Crown Jewels were...
    The Tower and The Victorians: Politics and Leisure
  • Cheshire Country Houses

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    The popular image of Cheshire is of a flat green landscape dotted with cows, of black and white houses, a county remote from the great events that have shaped the nation's history. This reflects the endurance of the old manorial class that maintained its hold on the land and ensured...
    Cheshire Country Houses
  • England Arise! The General Election of 1945

      Historian article
    ‘The past week will live in history for two things’, announced the Sunday Times of 29 July 1945, ‘first the return of a Labour majority to Parliament and the end of Churchill's great war Premiership.’ Most other newspapers concurred. The Daily Mirror, of 27 July, proclaimed that the 1945 general election...
    England Arise! The General Election of 1945
  • Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King

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    On the eve of the 400th anniversary of Philip II’s death James Casey rejects the traditional portrayal of the Spanish ruler as a cruel despot and argues his achievements were more the result of an extraordinary sense of duty fully in tune with the hopes and aspirations of his people....
    Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King
  • The Historian 97: Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    A Victorian deserter's family story: surviving a clash of loyalties - Donald Read (Read article) Shipwrecks, Clocks and Westminster Abbey: the story of John Harrison - Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS (Read article) Wellington’s Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars - Zeta Moore (Read article) Buffolo Bill and his Wild West show opens in London's...
    The Historian 97: Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars
  • The Historian 4

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Articles include: 3 Feature: The Great Fire of Westminster 1834 – Patrick Cormack 8 Local History: Archive Services in the Metropolitan Counties and in Greater London – Elizabeth Berry 12 Record Linkage: Cartoonists and the General Elections of 1945 and 1983 – Adrian Smith 16 Update: Parliament in the Middle Ages – Helen Jewell 20 Medals of...
    The Historian 4
  • Local Authority Record Offices: Our Heritage at Risk

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    Rosemary Dunhill fears the review of local government structures might lead to damaging cuts in the archive service. The lives of archivists in record offices run by local authorities have been dominated in the last few years by the review of local government. The Government wished to simplify local government...
    Local Authority Record Offices: Our Heritage at Risk
  • The Duke whose life began and ended in a barn

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    Though ill-luck came the way of the Harvey family last autumn when their hay barn was gutted by fire, they hardly expected it to become national news. The family run a dairy farm in the Jock River country south of what is now Ottawa in Canada – nothing extraordinary about...
    The Duke whose life began and ended in a barn
  • Isaac Butt and Irish Nationality

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    Alan O’Day reviews and reassesses the career of the major Irish Nationalist figure before Charles Stewart Parnell. Once the most respected man in Irish nationalist circles, Isaac Butt became merely a footnote in Anglo-Irish history after his death on 5 May 1879. Yet, from the mid-1860s until he died his...
    Isaac Butt and Irish Nationality
  • Recycling the Monastic building: The Dissolution in Southern England

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    The dissolution of the monasteries was one of the most dramatic developments in English History. In 1536, the religious orders had owned about a fifth of the lands of England. Within four years the monasteries had been abolished and their possessions nationalised by Henry VIII. Within another ten years, most...
    Recycling the Monastic building: The Dissolution in Southern England
  • A Victorian deserter's family story: surviving a clash of loyalties

      Historian article
    More people than ever are seeking to trace their family histories. People can now sit at home and tap out in seconds from the  internet many of their family's previously unknown genealogical details. But what if a century or more ago one of your family had tried to cover his...
    A Victorian deserter's family story: surviving a clash of loyalties
  • From Ashes to Icon

      Historian article
    Charles Stirton reflects on Middleton Hall and the creation of the National Botanic garden of Wales. Something significant is stirring in the gardening world. This year Wales will make history by opening the first national botanic garden in the third millennium. When visitors enter the new garden on the 24th...
    From Ashes to Icon
  • War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain

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    John Major discusses an astonishing aspect of past Anglo-American history. All great powers have developed contingency plans for war with each other, and the United States in the early twentieth century was no exception. Each of Washington’s schemes was given a distinctive colour. Green mapped out intervention in neighbouring Mexico,...
    War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain
  • Travelling the Seventeenth-Century English Economy: Rediscovery of Celia Fiennes

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    Pam Sharpe reflects on the journals and expeditions of a 17th-century traveller. I first encountered Celia Fiennes (1662-1741), early modern traveller and journal writer, when I was an undergraduate. Being a keen traveller myself and studying social and economic history, Fiennes’ journeys fascinated me1. Here was a woman who travelled...
    Travelling the Seventeenth-Century English Economy: Rediscovery of Celia Fiennes
  • 1939 After Sixty Years

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    Historians view major anniversaries with a measure of ambivalence. We know that they are artificial, that it is merely a convenient fiction to think that the passage of a round number of years provides a privileged vantage point from which to review the significance of a given event. Yet we...
    1939 After Sixty Years
  • Duffy's devices: teaching Year 13 to read and write

      Teaching History article
    Rachel Ward’s intriguing title seems a little out of place in an edition on teaching the most able. The point she makes, though, is that even our very brightest post-16 students need to be encouraged both to engage with the historiography surrounding their course and to learn to write with...
    Duffy's devices: teaching Year 13 to read and write
  • The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899: The birth of social anthropology?

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    Dr John Shepherd reviews the history of a major anthropological expedition one hundred years ago. On 10 March 1898 The Times reported that Cambridge Anthropological Expedition led by Alfred Cort Haddon had sailed from London, bound for the Torres Strait region between Australia and New Guinea. In Imperial Britain, the...
    The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899: The birth of social anthropology?