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  • Doing history: Manorial Court Records

      Historian feature
    Manorial records are often associated with the medieval period, and while they are a valuable resource for medieval historians, they actually span from the twelfth to the twentieth century. Sarah Pettyfer sheds light on these often-overlooked records, helping family and local historians explore them with confidence...
    Doing history: Manorial Court Records

  • Eyam: the plague village 1665-66

      Historian article
    Richard Stone explores the self-sacrifice of a Seventeenth Century village during an epidemic. History shows us these ‘unprecedented times’ are not that far from previous historical experiences. Lockdown, quarantine, self-isolation, ‘second wave’, ‘third wave’, airborne disease, churches closed; the Covid-19 experience resonates with the plight of the villagers of Eyam, three-and-a-half centuries...
    Eyam: the plague village 1665-66

  • Flight from Kabul: a historical perspective

      Historian article
    In this article, Matt Jux-Blayney compares the British retreat from Kabul in 1842 with the most recent flight of NATO from Kabul in August 2021. Matt explores the various similarities between the two campaigns and includes personal recollections from his service in Afghanistan with the British Army. On 6 January...
    Flight from Kabul: a historical perspective

  • History Abridged: London’s women statues

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles We live in a seemingly iconoclastic age. Statues that were once part of the established...
    History Abridged: London’s women statues

  • History Abridged: The medieval origins of university

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: In this feature we take a person, time, theme or event and tell you the vast rich history in small space. A long dip into history in a shortened form. See all History Abridged articles Medieval history can suffer from an image problem. Even a conventional name for the period...
    History Abridged: The medieval origins of university

  • History Abridged: Language and the African continent

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles Africa is a huge continent...
    History Abridged: Language and the African continent

  • History Abridged: Operation Black Buck

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles Just as the Naval Task Force had been dispatched in April 1982, days after the...
    History Abridged: Operation Black Buck

  • My Favourite History Place: Petra

      Historian feature
    Ghislaine Headland-Vanni visits the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan. When you hear the word ‘Petra’ what images does the word conjure up for you? Maybe you have visited and know it already; if not, then like me you may not fully comprehend its size. I naively thought I could...
    My Favourite History Place: Petra

  • The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

      Historian article
    Adam Simmons draws our attention to the need for further research into the relationship between the medieval Kingdoms of Ethiopia and Nubia – a fascinating time and place in African history which is neglected in the historical archive and about which, so far, there are only limited sources. The kingdoms of Ethiopia...
    The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

  • Parliament, people or privilege: Do we need a better understanding of constitutional history?

      Historical Association conference 2017: round table discussion
    Join our panel, including Dr Alix Green, Professor Tony Badger and Professor Justin Champion as they discuss how recent polls and election results have confounded many pundits. Do calls to ‘give us our country back’ or ‘return our sovereignty’ suggest that many people in liberal democracies need a better understanding of...
    Parliament, people or privilege: Do we need a better understanding of constitutional history?

  • Henry V in the cinema

      Historian article
    Public attitudes to Henry V are very much influenced by WilliamShakespeare's interpretation. Richard Inverne discusses howShakespeare's version has been translated into cinematic form byLaurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh. Shakespeare indulges himself considerably with his own relatively recent history - Richards II and III, Henrys IV, V and VI, for example....
    Henry V in the cinema

  • Food, history and a sense of place?

      Historian article
    It ought to be possible to match many of the letters of the alphabet to an English place-name and its particular food-stuff. From Bath Buns to Yorkshire Pudding, this puzzle might go, by way of cakes from Eccles and Pontefract. Can you think of other letters of the alphabet and...
    Food, history and a sense of place?

  • Podcast: Richard Evans Medlicott -The Origins of the First World War

      Medlicott Podcast
    This year the Historical Association's Medlicott medal for services to history went to Professor Sir Richard Evans. Richard Evans is the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has written numerous highly respected and internationally best-selling books. Evans is bests known for his works on...
    Podcast: Richard Evans Medlicott -The Origins of the First World War

  • The Jews of Medieval England

      Historian article
    The diversity of the history of the British Isles continues to be a subject of discussion in academic circles and in popular culture. Some communities have been around for hundreds of years, while others have been part of our societies and then disappeared or been eroded. One of the communities...
    The Jews of Medieval England

  • The British Empire on trial

      Article
    In the light of present-day concerns about the place, in a modern world, of statues commemorating figures whose roles in history are of debatable merit, Dr Gregory Gifford puts the British Empire on trial, presenting a balanced case both for and against. In June 2020 when the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston...
    The British Empire on trial

  • The peace treaties of 1919

      Historian article
    Over the last five years the Historical Association has run a regular feature in this journal about the First World War from some lesser-known perspectives. Its purpose has been to capture some of the stories not always told about that life-changing, society-transforming conflict. As the centenary of the Armistice has...
    The peace treaties of 1919

  • HA Podcasted History: Ancient Persia

      Ancient Persia
    In this series of podcasts Professor Thomas Harrison of the University of Liverpool examines the Persian Empire, life in ancient Persian society and the Greek-Persian War.
    HA Podcasted History: Ancient Persia

  • Ofsted and History in Schools

      Article
    HM Inspector John Hamer reviews the evidence. In a lecture marking the 150th anniversary of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools, Peter Gordon recalled a nineteenth century HMI, the Reverend W.H. Brookfield. His circle of friends included Tennyson, the Hallams and Thomas Carlyle.
    Ofsted and History in Schools

  • The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

      Article
    Helen Rawlings reviews the recent literature which has prompted a fundamental reappraisal of the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition — first established in 1478 in Castile under Queen Isabella I and suppressed in 1834 by Queen Isabella II — has left its indelible mark on the whole course of Spain’s...
    The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

  • Podcast Series: Modern Irish History

      Modern Irish History
    An HA Podcasted Series on Modern Irish History featuring Professor Peter Gray, Dr Fearghal McGarry & Dr Stuart Aveyard of Queen's University of Belfast and Dr Matthew Kelly of the University of Southampton.
    Podcast Series: Modern Irish History

  • Podcast Series: British LGBTQ+ History

      Multipage Article
    In Part 4 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK since 1800 we focus on UK LGBTQ+ History. This series of podcasts features Dr Matt Cook and Dr Sean Brady of Birkbeck, University of London, Professor Sally R Munt of the University of Sussex and Dr Emma Vickers...
    Podcast Series: British LGBTQ+ History

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution

      Teaching History feature
    The British industrial revolution stands out as a pivotal moment in human history. Its timing, causes and consequences have all been major topics of historical enquiry for well over one hundred years. Many of the great Victorian commentators – Engels, Dickens, Blake to name a few – who lived through...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution

  • Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785

      Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
    In Episode 4, Dr Montaz Marché (University College London) and Professor Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter), discuss the lives and experience of 18th century Black Britons. In this discussion they look at the lives of both the exceptional and the ordinary, and reflect upon the politics of race and gender in...
    Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785

  • Prehistoric Scotland

      Classic Pamphlet
    Prehistory is an attempt to reconstruct the story of human societies inhabiting a given region before the full historical record opens there. Its data, furnished by archaeology, are the constructions members of such societies erected and the durable objects they made. The events which should form its subject matter naturally...
    Prehistoric Scotland

  • Uncomfortable secrets: uncovering family history and other stories

      Historian article
    Kate Brooks’ interest in her family history led her to trace the life of her great grandfather, Joseph Lowe. His life story provides insights into 19th-century life, disease, orphanages, and child labour, but she also reflects on the ways in which the past can sometimes resonate with the present in unexpected...
    Uncomfortable secrets: uncovering family history and other stories