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The Historian 84: The first trans-Atlantic hero?
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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
Featured articles:
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 87: How Nelson Became a Hero
The magazine of the Historical Association
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
The magazine of the Historical Association
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 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Protestantism and art in early modern England - Keith Thomas (Medlicott Lecture to the Historical Association at the Wallace Collection, London, 5 April 2003) (Read article)
18 To what extent was the failure of denazification in Germany 1945-48 a result of the apathy of the allies? -...
The Historian 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England
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1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association
The Historian 91
4 Foreword - Lady Antonia Fraser
6 Swanning around - Jeremy Paterson
10 A Parade of Past Presidents 1906-82 - Donald Read
24 The Norton Medlicott Medal - Bill Speck
30 For Short Time an Endless Monument: The Shifting History of a Familiar London Landmark - Lisa Jardine
38 Wise...
1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association
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The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
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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The Historian 55: Arthur, Prince of Wales and his training for kingship
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
Arthur Prince of Wales,
Jane Austen: a Writer for all Seasons - Irene Collins (Read article)
The Spanish Armada of...1597? - Graham Darby (Read article)
Cartooning King Cotton - Alan Fowler and Terry Wyke (Read article)
From Disraeli to Callaghan, Britain 1879 to 1979 - A.J.P. Taylor (Read article)...
The Historian 55: Arthur, Prince of Wales and his training for kingship
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The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Two babies that could have changed world history - Geoffrey Chamberlain MD (Read article)
12 The origins of the local government service - Kenneth Poole (Read article)
22 ‘Spy fever’ in Britain, 1900 to 1914 - James Hampshire (Read article)
28 Why did the Dome Fail? - Lucy...
The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!
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The Historian 74: The Uses of History in the 21st Century
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Featured articles:
6 The Uses of History In The Twenty First Century - Marjorie Reeves (Read article)
11 Thomas Parkinson, the Hermit of Thirsk - Frank Bottomley (Read article)
17 The Urban Working Classes in England 1880-1914 - Eric Hopkins (Read article)
25 Bertrand Russell’s Role in the Cuban Missile...
The Historian 74: The Uses of History in the 21st Century
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The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history - Dr Adrian Smith (Read article)
9 John Knox and womankind: a reappraisal - Maureen M Meikle (Read article)
16 Why did regional variations exist in the prosecution of witches between 1580-1650? - Robert Hodgkinson (Read article)...
The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history
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The Historian 94: Civil Rights: How did the Civil Rights movement change America?
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
Civil Rights: How did the Civil Rights movement change America? - A.J. Badger (Read Article)
The creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 - Alexander Murdoch (Read Article)
Historians in the National Archives - A.D. Harvey (Read article)
The Japanese history textbook controversy: a content analysis -...
The Historian 94: Civil Rights: How did the Civil Rights movement change America?
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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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Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign
Historian article
Following the successful filming of his book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, Roald Dahl has an international reputation as a children’s writer. There is, however, a macabre dimension to his writing underlined by his successful TV series ‘Tales of the Unexpected’. Dark episodes in Dahl’s highly successful career touched his...
Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign
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The Friar's Bush
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Nothing on earth would have persuaded me to enter the place… it was the house of the dead. Paul Henry, artist (1876-1958)
The Friar's Bush cemetery on the Stranmillis Road in Belfast may only be two acres in size, but its history is far bloodier and grislier than you would...
The Friar's Bush
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Flowers Block the Sun
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As Northern Ireland begins to hope for a long and hot summer, there is one famous landmark in Belfast that can be guaranteed to be ready for a six month summer, regardless of rain or shine. Reg Maxwell, veteran of over thirty years in Belfast City Council Parks Department and...
Flowers Block the Sun
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The Great Exhibition
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‘Of all the decades to be young in, a wise man would choose the 1850s’ concludes G.M. Young in his Portrait of An Age. His choice is understandable. Historians and contemporaries have long viewed the middle years of the century as a ‘plateau of peace and prosperity’, an ‘age of...
The Great Exhibition
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The Spanish Collection
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For the art historian, a thorough study of works of art, their creators and the environment in which they were produced, as well as their significance then and now, is a specialised endeavour. This, nevertheless, does not exhaust the presentation of art to contemporaries, least of all in the context...
The Spanish Collection
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The Japanese History Textbook Controversy: a Content Analysis
Historian article
With almost monotonous regularity the official release in Japan of new or revised secondary school history textbook editions, as well as primeministerial annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine to commemorate the 2.5 million Japanese war dead (including 14 Class-A war criminals), unleash a wave of international protest concerning Japan’s official...
The Japanese History Textbook Controversy: a Content Analysis
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How did the Civil Rights movement change America?
Historian article
In 1984 Jimmy Carter reflected on growing up in the segregated South. He recalled that, as a young child, he, like many white children, had had an African American child as his closest friend. The two children spent all their play time together. One day they travelled on the train...
How did the Civil Rights movement change America?
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The Casket Letters
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In May 1568 Mary Queen of Scots was riding in fear for her life to the wilds of Galloway. She crossed the Solway confident that she would receive the help which her cousin Queen Elizabeth had promised her, but instead found herself a prisoner. In the subsequent months a series...
The Casket Letters
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The Last Duke of Lorraine
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The Place Stanislas in Nancy has a high reputation. But expectations are far surpassed as one surveys the beautifully proportioned square, with its imposing buildings such as the Hôtel de Ville and the Governor's Palace, its Arc de Triomphe and its magnificent iron work. It is a reminder of how...
The Last Duke of Lorraine
