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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 Value of Biography in History
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7 April 2000: Historical Association, Norton Medlicott Medal Lecture. President, fellow members, ladies and gentlemen. I am deeply conscious that having just received the Norton Medlicott Medal; which means so much to me, that I must try to live up to the honour itself and the traditions of the recipients....
The Value of Biography in History
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The Historian 70: Myth and Reality: A necessary marriage at 12th Century Glastonbury
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Featured articles:
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 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...
The Historian 51
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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)
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The Historian 53: Queen Victoria
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An American showman P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for all the family
Historian article
Refer nowadays to Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-91)—once among the most recognisable and talked about of all nineteenth century Americans— only to conjure up visions of Barnum & Bailey’s three-ring circuses, menageries, acrobats, and Jumbo the elephant. Such images tend to obscure that in 1880, on creation of the famous travelling...
An American showman P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for all the family
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The Historian 57: Georgian Landscape
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Georgian Landscape: 18th-century landscape design: the art that disguises art - John Cannon
10 Thomas Jefferson: an icon of American democracy reassessed - Colin Bonwick
11 Men of Genius and learning: rewriting the history of the Scottish Enlightenment - David Allan
20 Gladstone's Death and Funeral - Colin Matthew...
The Historian 57: Georgian Landscape
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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 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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Britain and the Formation of NATO
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Carl Watts outlines the shift in British security policy and examines the role played by the Foreign Office during the post-War period. April 1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty, which came into effect in August 1949. The Cold War is over, but NATO...
Britain and the Formation of NATO
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The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!
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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 British Union of Fascists: the international dimension
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Fascism failed in Britain in the 1930s – Europe’s decade of the ‘Brown plague’. Unlike in many European countries, fascists in Britain were never a serious threat to the democratic order. This was not for want of trying, especially on the part of Sir Oswald Mosley and his British Union...
The British Union of Fascists: the international dimension
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The Historian 77: William the Silent
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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 80: Queen Victoria as a Politician
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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 Resistable Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Malcolm Crook examines the remarkable ascent to power of Napoleon at the turn of the nineteenth century. The great Bicentenary of the French Revolution of 1789 may be drawing to a close, but that of Napoleon is about to commence. So now is an opportune moment to present a critical...
The Resistable Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Historian 83: Personality and Power
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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 84: The first trans-Atlantic hero?
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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 85: Lloyd George and Gladstone
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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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Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history
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Blair the war leader provided historians with countless opportunities to get their names in the newspapers, let alone voice their opinions across the airwaves. The usual suspects were lined up (Eric Hobsbawm and Ben Pimlott in the Guardian, Andrew Roberts and John Keegan in the Telegraph, Niall Ferguson in The...
Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history
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The Creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707
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Why did both the parliaments of Scotland and England vote themselves out of existence in 1707 in order to create a new ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’? From an English perspective, there was always a strong feeling that this union did not create a new kingdom and that it certainly...
The Creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707
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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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Chamberlain Day and the popular meaning of Tariff Reform
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Few Conservative institutions appealed to the Tory rank-and-file activist like the Tariff Reform League did in the opening two decades of the Twentieth Century. From its foundation in 1903, the League spearheaded Joseph Chamberlain’s crusade to grant tariffs on imported goods, acting as his grassroots organisation. This article attempts to...
Chamberlain Day and the popular meaning of Tariff Reform
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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 89: The Great Liberal landslide
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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 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England
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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