Filter your results

Historian
Primary
Secondary
Student
Publications
Podcasts
Higher Education
Branches

Found 134 results matching 'scheme of work' within Historian > Events & courses > Past Event Resources   (Clear filter)

Not found what you’re looking for? Try using double quote marks to search for a specific whole word or phrase, try a different search filter on the left, or see our search tips.

  • Film: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War

      The Searchers
    Historian Robert Sackville-West joined the HA Virtual Branch in November 2021 to talk about the topic of his book The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War. By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed...
    Film: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War

  • Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?

      Presidential Lecture
    Podcast of Professor Anne Curry, President of the Historical Association. Friday 14th May 2010. Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of Medieval History, Southampton University ‘Re your piece in the Daily Mail, 26 October 2009, on the battle of Agincourt, I was absolutely disgusted at the inference that...
    Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?

  • Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond

      Article
    Between 1917 and 1947, women in the Indian subcontinent were engaged in active debates and noteworthy demonstrations for the vote, building up a national suffrage movement. In this talk Professor Sumita Mukherjee discusses the activities of Indian suffragettes in this period, showing how they were connected with British and other...
    Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond

  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

      Article
    In this first webinar about writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman will talk about how ideas grow from reading and thinking about history. Once you have a good idea, then you need to research it properly, starting with secondary sources for context, then moving on to more specific reading. Visits...
    Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga

      Article
    Professor David Olusoga is a revered TV historian, a writer and a practising academic at Manchester University. In 2022 he was the recipient of the Historical Association's annual Medlicott medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to history. The recipient of the medal provides the closing lecture of the HA's annual awards evening. Professor...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Henry V, Henry the Conqueror?

      Article
    Henry V - Henry the Conqueror? In this lecture former HA President Anne Curry Emeritus Professor of Medieval History Southampton addresses the question Henry V - Henry the Conqueror?'. She explores the relationship between Henry V, his court and those in France. (Please note: if you have HA Membership and are...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Henry V, Henry the Conqueror?

  • The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The First King of England

      25th February 2026
    Æthelstan was the early medieval king whose territorial conquests and shrewd statesmanship united the peoples, languages, and cultures that would come to be known as the 'Kingdom of the English.' In this panoramic talk, David Woodman draws on his research and recent book to create a portrait of this immensely...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The First King of England

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

      Article
    This talk explored the struggle for liberation from the perspective of the enslaved, wherever possible in their own words. Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh shines a light on the lives of revolutionaries like Toussaint Louverture, José Antonio Aponte, Nat Turner, and the pregnant rebel Solitude; touching on the stories of the freed...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

  • Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

      Article
    Historian and author Martyn Whittock recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'. In 1620, 102 ill-prepared asylum seekers landed two months later than planned, in the wrong place on the eastern coast of North America. By the next summer, half of...
    Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars

      Article
    In this talk, Steve Tibble discusses the Assassins and Templars, two of history's most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction showing how they survived...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars

  • Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

      Article
    The East Anglian witch hunt under Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed Witchfinder General, has garnered a great deal of popular and historical interest over the years. An image has developed of a zealous, misogynistic young man serving crazed 'justice' against supposed witches, whipping up panic and turning neighbours against each other in...
    Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to renowned historian and author Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch who is currently Professor of the Church at Oxford. His 2008 book History of Christianity: the first three thousand years is the leading authority on the history...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • Virtual Branch Recording: 'Hidden Histories of the Viking Age'

      27th March 2026
    Eleanor Barraclough tells a richly detailed history of the Viking Age through the everyday objects and traces left by ordinary people, revealing the complex, lived realities behind the familiar saga‑era myths. Dr Eleanor Barraclough is a historian, author and broadcaster. Her most recent book, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of...
    Virtual Branch Recording: 'Hidden Histories of the Viking Age'

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall

      Article
    Addressing issues of the legacies of racism created by the transatlantic slave trade and the narratives of its abolition  The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to Professor Catherine Hall, who is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall

  • Film: A short history of Islamic thought

      Article
    In his book of the same name, A short history of Islamic thought, Dr Fitzroy Morrissey provides a concise introduction to the origins and sources of Islamic thought, from its beginnings in the 7th century to the current moment. In this talk he explores the major ideas and introduces the...
    Film: A short history of Islamic thought

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

      Article
    The religious wars of the Crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

  • Film: The Ruin of All Witches

      Life and Death in the New World
    Professor Malcom Gaskill joined the HA Virtual Branch on Thursday 10 December 2022 to discuss the subject of his book, The Ruin of all Witches, Life and Death in the New World, which was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in 2022. His research explores the attitudes, beliefs and treatment of people as...
    Film: The Ruin of All Witches

  • Film: China's Good War

      How World War II is shaping a new nationalism
    In this lecture Professor Mitter uses film and other propaganda works to explore how key events of global history are being represented in China to develop a different understanding of its own past. The talk addresses a number of the factors for this change in how China is reflecting on...
    Film: China's Good War

  • Film: Berengaria of Navarre

      History & Myth
    In this talk Dr Gabrielle Storey discusses the life and times of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of England, lord of Le Mans, and wife of Richard I. Berengaria of Navarre has been inaccurately labelled as the only queen never to have stepped foot in England. This talk will present new analysis...
    Film: Berengaria of Navarre

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy

      Article
    In 1135 Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods in English history. On the one side is Empress Matilda. On the other side is her cousin,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy

  • Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England

      Article
    Building Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time the diversity of the Anglo-Saxon built environment. The book explores how the natural landscape was modified for human activity, and how settlements were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. It also shows how...
    Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England

  • Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

      Article
    Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski is a historian based at the University of Oxford. He specialises in the history of the Cold War and is particularly interested in the history of Soviet social, cultural, and political interactions with Eastern Europe after 1945. In 2017, he published a book entitled The Near Abroad:...
    Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

  • Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

      Churchill's Great Game
    In this HA Virtual Branch talk Professor Richard Toye explores Churchill’s response to the USSR and how his actions during the early Cold War years intersected with his views of traditional Anglo-Russian tensions and the legacy of the ‘Great Game’. Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University...
    Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

  • Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

      Article
    The 1980s are often viewed as marking the repudiation of the political order marked by the New Deal and the 1960s, both periods of enormous social, political, and cultural change. Yet the decade symbolised by President Ronald Reagan, far from being a period of triumphant conservative counterrevolution, was a period...
    Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan