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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?
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The Historian 60: The Knights Templars
The magazine of the Historical Association
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4 The Rise and Fall of The Knights Templars - Malcolm Barber (Read article)
10 The Resistible Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte - Malcolm Crook (Read article)
16 The Pilgrimage of Grace - Michael Bush (Read article)
21 The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899 (Read article)
The Historian 60: The Knights Templars
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The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War
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4 Vichy France and the Jews - Julian Jackson (Read article)
10 The Press and the Public during the Boer War - Jacqueline Beaumont Hughes (Read article)
16 Cambridge - Elisabeth Leedham-Green (Read article)
21 The Vikings in Britain - Henry Loyn
The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War
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The Historian 63: Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?
The magazine of the Historical Association
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4 Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War? - Professor The Earl Russell (Conrad Russell) (Read article)
10 What's new about 'New Labour'? - Andrew Thorpe (Read article)
16 1939 after sixty years - Patrick Finney (Read article)
22 Louis, John and William: The 'Dame Europa'...
The Historian 63: Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?
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The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement
The magazine of the Historical Association
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4 William Morris, art and the rise of the British Labour movement - Chris Wrigley (Read Article)
11 Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb - Z.A.B. Zeman (Read Article)
18 Bombing and the air war on the Italian Front 1915-1918 - A.D. Harvey (Read Article)
22 The reign of Edward VI:...
The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement
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The Historian 68: Eighteenth Century Britain and its Empire
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Featured articles:
4 The Wonderful Land of Oz - Douglas Horlock
12 Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire - P. J. Marshall (Read Article)
18 ‘The Generous Turk’: Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes - Hugh Dunthorne (Read Article)
23 ‘The Mouth Of Hell’: Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, c.1660-c.1800 - Colin Haydon (Read Article)
The Historian 68: Eighteenth Century Britain and its Empire
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The Historian 70: Myth and Reality: A necessary marriage at 12th Century Glastonbury
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4 Novelty and Amusement? Visiting the Georgian Country House - Richard Wilson (Read Article)
10 The Tower and The Victorians: Politics and Leisure - Peter Hammond (Read Article)
15 The Duke of Wellington and the little man on the cob - Patrick Abbott (Read Article)
18 Myth and...
The Historian 70: Myth and Reality: A necessary marriage at 12th Century Glastonbury
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The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics
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2 The birth of the modern Olympics - Michael Biddiss (Read article)
8 The insanity of Henry VI - Carole Rawcliffe (Read article)
13 Trewarthenick, Cornwall: the ancestral home of the Gregor family - Christine North (Read article)
16 Minority Rights and Wrongs in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century -...
The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics
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The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire
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Napoleon III - only one article of this journal remains. Open the attachment below to read the article.
The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire
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The Historian 53: Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria - Dorothy Thompson (Read article)
The Era of Dictators Reconsidered - Kenneth Thomson (Read article)
The Military Historian and the Western Front - Ian Beckett
The Migration of Indians to Guiana and Surinam - Ananda Dulal Sakar (Read article)
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The Historian 53: Queen Victoria
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The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
Handing back Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997 - Andrew Whitfield (Read article)
Elizabeth I - Susan Doran
Western Dress and Ambivelence in the South Pacific - Michael Sturma (Read article)
The Middle East in WWII and the British Co-operation with the Zionist Agency - Nicholas Hammond
Painted Advertisements...
The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong
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The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
2 Jawaharlal Nehru: the last viceroy? - Judtih M. Brown (Read article)
8 Travelling the 17th-century English Economy: a rediscovery of Celia Fiennes - Pam Sharpe (Read article)
12 War Plan Red: The American Plan for war with Britain - John Major (Read article)
15 Photography in Korea...
The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
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The Historian 77: William the Silent
The magazine of the Historical Association
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6 Hungarian Nationalism in International Context - R.J.W. Evans (Read article)
13 William the Silent: the first tolerant Prince - Stephen Morse (Read article)
22 Religion and Science in the Eighteenth Century - J.P. Lethbridge (Read article)
30 Oscar Wilde: the myth of martyrdom - Trevor Fisher (Read...
The Historian 77: William the Silent
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The Historian 80: Queen Victoria as a Politician
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6 The Casket Letters - A E MacRobert (Read article)
13 Recent Advances in the Study of Surnames - David Hey (Read article)
18 Mr Adams’ Free Grammar School - David and Ruth Taylor (Read article)
24 Queen Victoria as a Politician - Ian St John (Read article)...
The Historian 80: Queen Victoria as a Politician
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The Historian 81: Maida Vale and the battle of Maida
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6 Radiating the Revolution: Agitation in the Russian Civil War 1917-21 - Richard Taylor (Read article)
12 Look Back – But Not in Anger? A Manchester Boyhood - Donald Read (Read article)
17 Pressure and Persuasion Canadian agents and Scottish emigration, c. 1870 – c. 1930 - Marjory Harper...
The Historian 81: Maida Vale and the battle of Maida
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The Historian 82: The Spanish Collection
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4 The Spanish collection at the Victorian and Albert Museum in London: its inception and development in the Museum's context and conversion policy - Dr Rafael Manuel Pepiol (Read article)
12 The Great Exhibition - Chloe Jeffries (Read article)
18 Stanley Baldwin's reputation - Philip Williamson (Read article)
24 Beware the serpent...
The Historian 82: The Spanish Collection
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The Historian 84: The first trans-Atlantic hero?
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8 The first trans-Atlantic hero? General James Wolfe and British North America - Stephen Brumwell (Read article)
16 Brazil and the two World Wars - Joseph Smith (Read article)
22 William Vernon Harcourt - Patrick Jackson (Read article)
30 Who's afraid of the Victorian underworld? - Andy Croll
36 Out and...
The Historian 84: The first trans-Atlantic hero?
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The Historian 85: Lloyd George and Gladstone
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8 Lloyd George and Gladstone - Chris Wrigley (Read article)
18 Flowers Block The Sun - James Bartlett (Read article)
19 The Friar's Bush - James Bartlett (Read article)
20 George III and America - John Cannon (Read article)
27 Saint Robert and the Deer - Dr. Frank Bottomley (Read article)...
The Historian 85: Lloyd George and Gladstone
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The Historian 87: How Nelson Became a Hero
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6 How Nelson became a hero: Horatio Nelson's date with Destiny - Kathleen Wilson (Read article)
18 France during the reign of Louis XVI - Emma Kennedy (Read article)
21 Christopher Hill: Marxism & Methodism - Penny Corfield (Read article)
24 A Crusading Outpost: Edessa 1095-1153 - Kenneth Thomson (Read...
The Historian 87: How Nelson Became a Hero
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The Historian 88: Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore
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4 Letters 5 Editorial 6 HA News
8 Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore: Southern New Dealers And The Modern South — Professor A.J. Badger (Read article)
17 Echoes of Tsushima — Ronan Thomas (Read article)
22 Twickenham as a Patriotic Town — Michael Lee (Read article)
26 What does the...
The Historian 88: Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore
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The Historian 90: Napoleon's Women
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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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The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals
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Iconic images of war - Edgar Jones (Read Article)
Child health and school meals - Denise Amos (Read Article)
Edo period Japanese art
Hungary 1956 - Ann Kneif (Read Article)
Kilpeck church - John Hunt (Read Article)
The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals
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Out and about in D.H. Lawrence country
Historian feature
Eastwood is a busy, small town, about twelve miles west of Nottingham. It lies just within the county boundary with Derbyshire. Its name probably derived from a settlement in a clearing of the old Sherwood Forest. It sits mostly on a hilltop, which is the meeting place for main roads...
Out and about in D.H. Lawrence country
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The London Charterhouse
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Four hundred years ago, in 1611, Thomas Sutton was reputed to be the wealthiest commoner in England but he was nearing the end of his life. He had been a financier and he was formerly the Master of Ordnance in the Northern Parts. He decided to take up good works...
The London Charterhouse
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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
