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  • Polychronicon 162: Reinterpreting the May 1968 events in France

      Teaching History feature
    As Kristin Ross has persuasively argued, by the 1980s interpretations of the French events of May 1968 had shrunk to a narrow set of received ideas around student protest, labelled by Chris Reynolds a ‘doxa’. Media discourse is dominated by a narrow range of former participants labelled ‘memory barons’ –...
    Polychronicon 162: Reinterpreting the May 1968 events in France

  • Beyond the boundaries of the Lake District

      Historian article
    This article responds to recent changes in the size and status of the Lake District National Park by considering the historical interconnectedness of the Lake District with the region that surrounds it. Drawing on visual and verbal responses to the landscape of the Lakes region, Christopher Donaldson reveals how historical...
    Beyond the boundaries of the Lake District

  • Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery

      Historian article
    Michael Crumplin traces developments in surgery that can be directly attributed to changes in the conduct of war. Little doubt exists that war accelerates and innovates medical care. Today, our armed services can rely upon sound medical treatment if they are sick or wounded, with survival rates of above 90%. This...
    Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery

  • Film: Writing history - The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin

      Writing history featuring Professor Jonathan Phillips
    In this first film from our new ‘meet the author’ series Professor Jonathan Phillips explores the memory of Sultan Saladin not just in the West but also in the Middle East, and how he researched this information in preparation for his new book. In this interview we ask questions about...
    Film: Writing history - The Life & Legend of the Sultan Saladin

  • 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

  • My Favourite History Place - Barnard Castle

      Historian article
    Paula Kitching invites us to look at Barnard Castle with new eyes. Over the summer there was a lot of talk about Barnard Castle – I won’t go into the politics, but it did make me reflect on the actual town of Barnard Castle. Growing up, it was one of...
    My Favourite History Place - Barnard Castle

  • At home with Amanda Ira Aldridge

      Historian article
    Stephen Bourne examines the life of Amanda Ira Aldridge, the multi-talented singer, composer and voice teacher. Amanda Ira Aldridge may have lived a quiet life but she was a trailblazer in the world of music. After a career as a concert singer, she became a composer in a male-dominated profession, for which she adopted a male pseudonym, Montague Ring. In her...
    At home with Amanda Ira Aldridge

  • Grave matters

      Historian article
    Diana Laffin considers what study of the styles, planning and planting of Brookwood cemetery reveals about nineteenth century mindsets. Graves are serious sources for historians. There is nothing casual about the choices made at death: the size and design of the monument, the text on the stone, even the location...
    Grave matters

  • The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines in the sand

      Historian article
    Paula Kitching reveals how a secret diplomatic negotiation 100 years ago provides an insight into the political complexities of the modern-day Middle East. The Middle East is an area frequently in the news. Over the last ten years the national and religious tensions appear to have exploded with whole regions...
    The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines in the sand

  • Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade

  • Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation

      Historian article
    In this article Geoffrey Carter will be taking a look at battlefields as key elements in British history and how these can be incorporated into the study of history at various levels and in various periods. The regional nature of many historic conflicts is sometimes forgotten but this is an...
    Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation

  • Film: Henry VIII and Tudor Royal Authority

      Development of Tudor Royal Authority film series
    In this film, Tracy Borman, discusses the life and career of Henry VIII. Tracy examines how Henry VIII evolved from a pleasure loving prince, raised as Henry VII's 'spare heir', to becoming a king who would come to redefine England as a nation.
    Film: Henry VIII and Tudor Royal Authority

  • My Favourite History Place: Mandala House

      Historian feature
    Many myths surround David Livingstone and in this part of the world more myths about the man abound than perhaps anywhere else. We can only speculate on whether he fought off lions with his bare hands, shamed slave-traders into letting their slaves go with just a few words from the scriptures...
    My Favourite History Place: Mandala House

  • The Scottish dream of Darien

      Historian article
    John McKendrick considers how Scotland’s wish to create a trading empire was dashed and made the Act of Union of 1707 almost inevitable.
    The Scottish dream of Darien

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... migration and empire

      A Polychronicon of the past
    In autumn 2019, Kara Walker’s monumental sculpture, Fons Americanus, went on display in the Tate Modern, offering a poignant, troubling challenge to national commemoration. Walker depicts not the lingering vestiges of imperial glory, but sharks, tears, and haunted memories. She brings history into conversation with its contemporary legacies and engages...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... migration and empire

  • Out and About in Paestum

      Historian feature
    Trevor James introduces the extraordinary archaeological remains from Greek and Roman occupation to be found at Paestum. Paestum is the more recent name of a location originally known as Poseidonia, named in honour of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. Poseidonia was a Greek settlement or colony on the west...
    Out and About in Paestum

  • Anything but enlightened: child slavery in the Roman world

      Historian article
    Through evidence and models, Ulrike Roth explores the role of child slavery in ancient Rome. Ancient Rome has been a source of inspiration throughout the ages. Some of the most remarkable thinkers in human history have drawn on one or other of Roman society’s great achievements. The profound reflection on,...
    Anything but enlightened: child slavery in the Roman world

  • Sacred waters: Bath in the Roman Empire

      Historian article
    Eleri Cousins explores the dynamics of Romano-British religion at the sanctuary at Bath. What do you think of when you think of Roman Bath?  Most of us probably think of, well, the Baths – in particular the iconic image of the Great Bath, with its Roman swimming basin and its...
    Sacred waters: Bath in the Roman Empire

  • History Abridged: the Acropolis

      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 The Acropolis of Athens is...
    History Abridged: the Acropolis

  • My Favourite History Place: The Red House

      Historian feature
    Tim Brasier tempts others to visit the iconic Arts and Crafts Red House, home to William and Jane Morris in Bexleyheath, London.  This is a favourite historical venue of mine because it is so accessible. We literally live around the corner from the Red House in its location of the London...
    My Favourite History Place: The Red House

  • Real Lives: Tahereh (Tāhirih)

      Article
    Paula Kitching tells us of the incredible courage shown by Fatima Baraghani while campaigning for human rights, especially women’s rights in nineteenth century Persia. Fatima Baraghani lived in nineteenth century Persia and was a poet, a religious leader and a campaigner for women’s rights. She was born sometime between 1814 and 1919,...
    Real Lives: Tahereh (Tāhirih)

  • The Memory of a Saint: Managing the legacy of St Bernard of Clairvaux

      Historian article
    When Bernard of Clairvaux died in 1153, the Cistercian Order was faced with a problem. The self-proclaimed ‘chimera of his age’ had enjoyed an unusual and varied monastic career, as abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux and papal confidante, making him remarkably well-known for a monk. At the funeral the...
    The Memory of a Saint: Managing the legacy of St Bernard of Clairvaux

  • What is interesting about the Cold War?

      Article
    Almost 30 years after the end of the Cold War, diversity is suddenly galvanising the field of scholarly research into the Cold War. As the historian Federico Romero has argued, older, simpler interpretations ‘seem to be giving way to a looser understanding of the Cold War as an era that encompassed...
    What is interesting about the Cold War?

  • Film: London’s Dreaded Visitation – Epidemic disease in Restoration London

      Presidential Lecture - HA Annual Conference 2016
    This lecture explored the epidemiology of disease in metropolitan London, exploring by reconstructions of local impact in the various parishes north, south east and west of the City from Bills of Mortality, burial registers and the Churchwardens’ accounts which often allow a day by day if not hour by hour...
    Film: London’s Dreaded Visitation – Epidemic disease in Restoration London

  • History Abridged: Publishing

      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 For centuries the only way the written word could be communicated was by it being...
    History Abridged: Publishing