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The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics
The magazine of the Historical Association
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 23
The magazine of the Historical Association
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
The Historian 23
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Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'
Historian article
Medieval ‘Signs and Marvels': insights into medieval ideas about nature and the cosmic order.
Many aspects of life in the Middle Ages puzzle the modern reader but some are stranger than others. What can possibly explain an event reported from Orford Castle, in Suffolk? This is an amazing tale and...
Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'
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The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire
The magazine of the Historical Association
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 24
The magazine of the Historical Association
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
The Historian 24
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The Historian 21
The magazine of the Historical Association
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
The Historian 21
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Sophisticated living in sub-Roman Britain
Historian article
It has been assumed for a long time that sub-Roman Britain, the period between the Romans leaving the island in the early fifth century and the settlement of the Anglo-Saxons in the sixth century, was a period of rapid cultural and economic decline. Recent archaeological discoveries at Chedworth Villa in...
Sophisticated living in sub-Roman Britain
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The Story of the African Queen
Historian article
Where fact and fiction intercept: the story of The African Queen(s) by C.S. Forester
When the Königin Luise was hull down over the horizon and the dhow was close in-shore the lieutenant left his post and went down to the jetty to meet his senior officer. The dhow ran briskly in,...
The Story of the African Queen
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A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester
Historian article
The Tirah memorial stands in a corner of Borough Gardens, a Victorian park in Dorchester, county town of Dorset. It is a granite obelisk decorated with a motif of honeysuckle and laurel wreaths standing 4.5 metres high on a square granite plinth. This in turn stands upon a circular concrete...
A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester
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The Historian 13
The magazine of the Historical Association
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
The Historian 13
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The Historian 12
The magazine of the Historical Association
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
The Historian 12
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The Historian 9
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Past's Living Voice: Coinage as Media, Harold Mattingly
10 Update: Trade Unions in Britain 1875-1939, Chris Wrigley
24 Personalia: Profile of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
27 Spotlight: Bangor
The Historian 9
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Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer
Historian article
Colin Wheldon James introduces us to a 19th-century Welsh composer who deserves far greater recognition for his achievements in Wales as well as in England and America.
Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer
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Historian regular features
Multipage Article
The Historian magazine runs a number of regular features including our long-running History Out and About, and Real Lives which seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. New regular features include Doing History and In Conversation With.
Catch up on all current and past editions of our regular features on...
Historian regular features
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‘The story of her own wretchedness’: heritage and homelessness
Historian article
David Howell uses eighteenth-century beggars at Tintern Abbey as a starting point for his research into the use of heritage sites by the homeless.
In 1782, the Reverend William Gilpin published his Observations on the River Wye, a notable contribution to the emerging picturesque movement. A key element of his work is a commentary on Tintern Abbey....
‘The story of her own wretchedness’: heritage and homelessness
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The emergence of the first civilisations
Historian article
Paul Bracey – The emergence of civilisations provided fundamental changes in the capacity for human development. This said, they exhibited similarities, differences, frailties, negative and positive attributes and should be related to a broadly based appreciation of the past.
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the assumption was that...
The emergence of the first civilisations
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WWI and the flu pandemic
Historian article
In our continuing Aspects of War series Hugh Gault reveals that the flu pandemic, which began during the First World War, presented another danger that challenged people’s lives and relationships.
Wounded in the neck on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, Arthur Conan Doyle’s son Kingsley...
WWI and the flu pandemic
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On the campaign trail: walking the Hundred Years War
Historian article
In the tradition of landscape historians, Peter Hoskins has explored some of the route marches taken by English armies during the Hundred Years War.
After the battle of Crécy in 1346 and the capture of Calais by Edward III in the following year the Hundred Years War settled into an...
On the campaign trail: walking the Hundred Years War
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St Helena: Napoleon's last island
Historian article
Paul Brunyee asks why Napoleon ended up on St Helena, and what life was like for him in exile there.
On his return to Paris after Waterloo, Napoleon had no significant group of supporters left in Paris. He was stunned by his catastrophic defeat and knew he was being outmanoeuvred...
St Helena: Napoleon's last island
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Medical aspects of the battle of Waterloo
Historian article
Michael Crumplin explores the medical facilities of the British Army and asks how likely soldiers wounded at Waterloo were to survive.
The road to Waterloo
One of the very few benefits of conflict is the advancement of medical practice. The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistanhave been dealing with relatively...
Medical aspects of the battle of Waterloo
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The British soldier in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
Historian article
Scum of the earth – or fine fellows?
Carole Divall asks whether the men of the British Army really were ‘the scum of the earth’, as often asserted, or willing soldiers who earned the respect of the French.
‘Soldiers were regarded as day labourers engaged in unsavoury business; a money...
The British soldier in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
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The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners
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4 The Unpredictable Rise of the Duke of Wellington by Neville Thompson
9 The Peninsula War: A Review of recent literature by Charles Esdaile
13 The defence of Britain's Eastern Empire after World War One by John Fisher
18 Mining Communities without Mines by Lucy Russell
23 The...
The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners
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The making of Magna Carta
Historian article
Magna Carta provided a commentary on the ills of the realm in the time of King John. Sophie Ambler looks at what grievances were addressed in the Charter, how the Charter was made, and what the Charter tells us about King John himself.
The world from which Magna Carta came...
The making of Magna Carta
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On British Soil: Hartlepool, 16 December, 1914
Historian article
Heugh Battery, a Victorian survivor, received a new lease of life in 1908 when introduction of an improved Vickers 6-inch Mark VII gun greatly added to earlier, far less telling firepower. The Victorian pile was refurbished two years later and a pair of the new cannon installed. In 1907, the...
On British Soil: Hartlepool, 16 December, 1914
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‘Guilty pleasures’: Moral panics over commercial entertainment since 1830
Historian article
In 1866 the Select Committee on Theatrical Licenses and Regulations questioned Inspector Richard Reason:
Col. Stuart: What is the class of people who go [to penny theatres]?[Police] Inspector Richard Reason: I should think there is a great number of the criminal class, and some of the children of the working...
‘Guilty pleasures’: Moral panics over commercial entertainment since 1830
