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'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30
Historian article
During the years from 1826 to 1830 Benjamin Disraeli went through the slough of despond. His first major biographer,William Flavelle Monypenny, observed the ‘clouds of despondency which were now settling upon Disraeli's mind'. In his magisterial life of the great tory leader Robert Blake commented that ‘after completing Part II...
'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30
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The Northern Limit: Britain, Canada and Greenland, 1917-20
Historian article
Imperial ambitions during the First World War extended beyond the Middle East and Africa. In this article Ben Markham looks at the territorial wrangling over Greenland.
It is well known that the British Empire grew in size significantly in the wake of the First World War. In the course of...
The Northern Limit: Britain, Canada and Greenland, 1917-20
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Journeys Home: Indian forces and the First World War
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This article examines the importance of understanding the experiences of the Indian Forces during the First World War and how that can affect young people today.
One hundred and four years ago the British Empire was one of the largest global operations in existence. Roughly a quarter of the world’s population...
Journeys Home: Indian forces and the First World War
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The National Memorial to William Ewart Gladstone
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To stand amidst the books in St Deiniol's Library is an intimidating experience for it is an encounter with the restless, brooding intelligence that was William Ewart Gladstone.
Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon, Archbishop of Canterbury (18 May 1998)
The ‘Temple of Peace'
St Deiniol's Library was founded in 1894 by...
The National Memorial to William Ewart Gladstone
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Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909
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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
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The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century
Historian article
During the last century or so there has developed a new ‘public role’ for history: the past as personal history, a vital element in the nourishing of people in society. During the past decades a new perception of what history is has manifested itself on two levels: first a shift of...
The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century
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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?
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The Historian 31
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3 Feature: Cultural Life in Latin America in the Age of the Enlightenment, John Fisher
10 Update: Spain and Portugal - From Dictatorship to Democracy, Richard Robinson
13 Portfolio: The Pageant of Monarchy: Royal Ceremonial in the Early Nineteenth Century, E.A. Smith
17 Local History: Can Our Record Offices Cope?...
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Exploring the Cornish Religious Landscape
Historian article
The Cornish religious landscape shares one particularly significant feature with its Welsh neighbour to the north. The Celtic tendency to dedicate churches to very local saints is very strong in both Cornwall and Wales, with the church dedications frequently being mirrored by the place name. This similarity is, to an...
Exploring the Cornish Religious Landscape
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Historians in The National Archives
Historian article
The author of this article approached the Editor to give him a flavour of what might be found in The National Archives relating to political, secret service and civil service ‘interest’ in the views and activities of historians over the last century. It is certainly very significant that some of...
Historians in The National Archives
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The Historian 30
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Images: Catherine II of Russia, Enlightened Absolutism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Roger Bartlett
10 Update: Disraeli, Ian Machin
12 Portfolio: The Secret 'Iron Tongs' of Midwifery, Joyce Rushen
14 Terylene, Rex Collins
16 Local History: The Ordnance Survey: A Quick Guide for Historians, Richard Oliver
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The Gallipoli Memorial, Eltham
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On April 13 2000 the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend Richard Harris, gave the final Gallipoli Memorial Lecture in the Gallipoli Memorial Chapel at Holy Trinity Church, Eltham. The National Gallipoli Memorial was established there due to the effort and enthusiasm of Holy Trinity’s Vicar, the Reverend Henry Hall,...
The Gallipoli Memorial, Eltham
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The Historian 29
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Gods of Roman Britain, David Shotter
9 Update: Slavery and the Plantation System in the British Caribbean: The example of Jamaica, Verene A. Shepherd
12 In Memoriam: Dr Esmond de Beer
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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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The Historian 28
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Japan in Perspective, Richard Tames
10 Eyewitness: One of a Luckless Tribe: Arthur Moore and the Amiens Despatch, Keith Haines
12 Record Linkage: Cartoon Corner: Curriculum Controversy Caricatured
14 Portfolio: Ramsay MacDonald: Aviator and Ac'ionman, Adrian Smith
16 Education Forum: Monsteh, History and the Young Child, Paul Noble...
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Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation
Historian article
In this article Geoffrey Carter will be taking a look at battlefields as key elements in British history and how these can be incorporated into the study of history at various levels and in various periods. The regional nature of many historic conflicts is sometimes forgotten but this is an...
Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation
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The Historian 27
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Question of Germanies, Michael Biddiss
10 Update: Britain at War 1914-1918, Keith Grieves
13 Portfolio: Moles under HQ? — Kennington Station and the First Tube Line, Neil Lloyd
14 Education Forum: History in Secondary Schools: the Scottish Experience, Mary B. Gould
15 Local History: Local History and...
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The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines in the sand
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Paula Kitching reveals how a secret diplomatic negotiation 100 years ago provides an insight into the political complexities of the modern-day Middle East.
The Middle East is an area frequently in the news. Over the last ten years the national and religious tensions appear to have exploded with whole regions...
The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines in the sand
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Britain and Brittany: contact, myth and history in the early Middle Ages
Historian article
Fiona Edmonds evidences the enduring links between Brittany and Britain throughout the early Middle Ages.
Every year many thousands of British holidaymakers travel to Brittany in search of beaches, bisque and bonhomie. As they board the ferry, they may notice that they are travelling from one Bretagne to another. The names...
Britain and Brittany: contact, myth and history in the early Middle Ages
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The Historian 26
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Martin Luther King, Jr, Adam Fairclough
10 Update: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, Chris Wrigley
13 Education Forum: History and the National Curriculum, Martin Roberts
14 Portfolio: The Rise of the English Gentry 1150-1350, Cohn Richmond
19 Museums: Berlin Museums & the Third Reich, Tom Holder
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Out and about in the East Yorkshire Wolds
Historian feature
East Yorkshire is a somewhat neglected area for touring. Yet, the villages in the chalk Wolds possess much charm and a lot of surprising history to reward those who would explore them. In my youth, I toured these villages many times both on foot and by bicycle. This route is...
Out and about in the East Yorkshire Wolds
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The Historian 25
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3 Feature: Francesco Crispi and the Legacy of the Rsorgimento, Christopher Duggan
9 Update: Popular Protest in Britain c.1811-1850, John Rule
24 Education Forum: Computers in the Teaching and Learning of History, Aknic Dickinson
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The Historian 116: Devon's Militia and the Spanish Armada Crisis
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4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 The Fall Of Singapore 1942 - Ted Green (Read Article)
11 The President's Column - Jackie Eales
12 My Favourite History Place: All Saints' Church, Harewood - Ian Dawson (Read Article)
13 1066 and all that in ten tweets - Paula Kitching
14 News from...
The Historian 116: Devon's Militia and the Spanish Armada Crisis
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The Historian 51
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
9 Brasses and History (The 1707 Act of Union) - Christopher Whatley
14 Local Authority Record Offices: Our Heritage at Risk - Rosemary Dunhill (Read article)
16 The Eighteenth century in Britain: long or short? W.A. Speck
20 Football and British-Soviet relations: The Moscow Dynamo and Moscow Spartak tours of 1945...
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The Historian 75: Keats' Deathbed Companion
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6 Whigs, Tories, East Indiamen and rogues: the history of Parliament, 1690-1715 – Paul Seaward
11 Kingship and Authorship: History and Royalty in the Crown of Aragon – Suzanne F. Cawsey
19 The Wizard Earl of Northumberland: an Elizabethan scholar-nobleman – Gordon Batho
25 Keats' deathbed companion: in...
The Historian 75: Keats' Deathbed Companion
