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The Historian 65: Cooling Memories
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Featured articles:
4 From Ashes to Icon: The creation of the National Botanic Garden of Wales - Charles Stirton (Read article)
10 Wanted, The elusive Charlie Peace: A Sheffield killer of the 1870s as popular hero - Dr John Springhall (Read article)
17 Cooling memories: Why we still remember Scott...
The Historian 65: Cooling Memories
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Out and About near Cromford in Derbyshire
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The River Derwent is a dominant feature of the Derbyshire landscape from the Ladybower Reservoir to where it joins the River Trent just south of Derby. This river is noted for the sheer power and volume of water it carries: in the 1720s Daniel Defoe observed ‘the Derwent is a...
Out and About near Cromford in Derbyshire
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Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show opens London's Earl Court in 1887
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‘It is often said on the other side of the water that none of the exhibitions which we send to England are purely and distinctively American', exhorted Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) in an unsolicited letter of September 1884 to ‘Colonel' William Frederick Cody (1846-1917). ‘If you will take the Wild...
Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show opens London's Earl Court in 1887
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A Victorian deserter's family story: surviving a clash of loyalties
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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
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The Historian 53: Queen Victoria
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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)
Open the attachment below to read the...
The Historian 53: Queen Victoria
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Out and about in Holderness
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East of Hull lies Holderness, a twohundred square mile portion of the former East Riding of Yorkshire, extending from Hornsea in the north to Spurn Head and flanked by the river Humber and the North Sea. It is a very fertile tract of rich agricultural countryside but it is particularly...
Out and about in Holderness
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Upwards till Lepanto
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Ottoman society centred on the Sultan. He was lawgiver, religious official, leader in battle-and until the late sixteenth century an active field commander on campaign. The Law of Fratricide of Mehmet (Mohammed) II, 1451-81, urged each new Sultan to kill his brothers in order to produce a capable ruler and...
Upwards till Lepanto
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The Historian 60: The Knights Templars
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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 62: Catherine de Medici
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Is History Dangerous? - Eric Hobsbawm (Read article)
6 Britain and the formation of NATO - Carl Watts (Read article)
12 Sir William Petty: Scientist, Economist, Inventor 1623-87 - John Adams (Read article)
15 Durham: a personal perspective - G.R. Batho (Read article)
18 Catherine de Medici and the...
The Historian 62: Catherine de Medici
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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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The Historian 56: Philip II of Spain
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
Philip II of Spain, the Prudent King - James Casey (Read article)
Quixotically Generous...Economically Worthless - William Kenefick (Read article)
1497, Cornwall, and the Wars of the Roses - Ian Arthurson (Read article)
Stalin, Propoganda, Soviet Society, and the Great Terror - Sarah Davies (Read article)
The New...
The Historian 56: Philip II of Spain
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The Historian 71: The English Historian's Role
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Featured articles:
16 The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism - Mark Rathbone (Read article)
22 A Social History of the Welsh Language - Geraint H. Jenkins (Read article)
29 Gallipoli Memorial, Eltham - Sarah Newman (Read article)
The Historian 71: The English Historian's Role
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The Historian 77: William the Silent
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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 82: The Spanish Collection
The magazine of the Historical Association
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 83: Personality and Power
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
8 Personality and Power: The Individual's role in the History of Twentieth-Century Europe - Ian Kershaw (Read article)
20 'Right well kept': Peterborough Abbey 1536-1539 - Christopher Morris (Read article)
24 The commercial architecture of Victorian Liverpool - Joseph Sharples (Read article)
36 The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs - Dave Burnham (Read article)...
The Historian 83: Personality and Power
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The Historian 85: Lloyd George and Gladstone
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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 89: The Great Liberal landslide
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Letters 5 Editorial 6 HA News
8 The Great Liberal Landslide of 1906: The 1906 general election in perspective - Dr Ian Packer (Read article)
17 A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Forgotten William Dampier - Diana Preston (Read article)
26 Popular Revolt & the rise of Early Modern States -...
The Historian 89: The Great Liberal landslide
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The Historian 66: Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr
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Featured articles:
4 The Value of Biography in History - Antonia Fraser (Read Article)
10 Cholera and the fight for Public Health Reform in mid-Victorian England - Dr Geoff Gill MA, MSc, MD, FRCP (Read Article)
17 Ottawa: Canada's evolving capital - John Talyor
22 Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr...
The Historian 66: Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr
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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 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 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
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The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong
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The Historian 73: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Featured articles:
6 Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English people - David Rollason (Read article)
11 Late Medieval Taxation Records - Peter Mackie (Read article)
16 Joseph Priestley’s American Dream - W. A. Speck (Read article)
24 Opposition and Resistance in the GDR - Dominik Geppert (Read article)
31 ‘Savages and...
The Historian 73: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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The Historian 76: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 2002 Medlicott Lecture: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty - Ben Pimlott (Read article)
16 The Irish historians’ role and the place of history in Irish national life - George Boyce (Read article)
20 The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Ritchie Ovendale (Read article)
28 Archbishops...
The Historian 76: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty
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The Historian 80: Queen Victoria as a Politician
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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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Featured articles:
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
