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  • The Darien Scheme - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    The colonisation project that became known as the Darien Scheme or Darien Disaster was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to become a world trading nation by establishing a colony called "Caledonia" on the Isthmus of Panama on the Gulf of Darién in the late 1690s. This pamphlet...
    The Darien Scheme - Pamphlet

  • Out and About in Upper Weardale

      Historian feature
    Tony Fox introduces us to two battlefields and the work of the Battlefields Trust. Stanhope takes its name from the ‘stony valley’ in which it sits. It is the most significant town in beautiful Upper Weardale. Like many towns in this area Stanhope’s growth accelerated in the nineteenth century as...
    Out and About in Upper Weardale

  • Women in British Coal Mining

      Historian article
    With the final closure of Britain’s deep coal mines, Chris Wrigley examines the long-standing involvement of women in and around this challenging and dangerous form of work. With the closure in 2015 of Thoresby and Kellingley mines, the last two working deep coal mines in Britain, leaving only open-cast coal...
    Women in British Coal Mining

  • Real Lives: Maria Rye’s emigration home for destitute little girls

      Historian feature
    Alf Wilkinson explores the controversial story of Maria Rye, who founded the Female Emigration Society in 1861 in order to take ‘surplus’ young ladies to Australia and New Zealand to work as teachers and governesses. As there was insufficient demand for these, she refocused her work on taking pauper children...
    Real Lives: Maria Rye’s emigration home for destitute little girls

  • Migration into the UK in the early twenty-first century

      Historian article
    Sam Scott and Lucy Clarke explore the data covering more recent migration to the United Kingdom, most especially from the EU. They discover that since 2000 migrant destinations have changed. No longer do migrants head exclusively to the big cities and industrial areas, but to rural areas, like Boston in...
    Migration into the UK in the early twenty-first century

  • Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66

      Historian article
    Geoffrey Robinson explores a little-known episode of the Cold War where half a million people were killed and the Indonesian communist party was destroyed, aided and abetted by the major Western Powers. Amidst all the talk of fake news and Russian meddling in US politics, it is easy to lose...
    Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66

  • Real Lives: Mrs Annabel Dott (1868–1937)

      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 sto greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Mrs Annabel Dott (1868–1937)

  • In conversation with Tom Hamilton

      Historian feature
    The Historian sat down with Tom Hamilton to discuss his recent work, A Widow’s Vengeance after the Wars of Religion, which uncovers the story of a revealing criminal trial during the French Wars of Religion...
    In conversation with Tom Hamilton

  • Film: A Jewish Divorce Case in Medieval England

      Virtual Branch
    In 1242, the prominent thirteenth-century Jewish financier David of Oxford attempted to divorce his wife, Muriel. In the process, he met with a number of obstacles which seriously hampered his efforts and had far-reaching implications for the Jewish community as a whole. In the end, David had to appeal directly...
    Film: A Jewish Divorce Case in Medieval England

  • Filmed Lecture: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

      A Fistful of Shells
    In this Virtual Branch webinar we were joined in conversation with Dr Toby Green on his acclaimed book 'A Fistful of Shells'. Shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson Prize and winner of the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the book explores West Africa from the Rise of the...
    Filmed Lecture: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

  • Film: Life and Death in Occupied France

      Silent Village
    Robert Pike joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss the research for his latest book Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France. This work explores life in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane before, during and after the infamous massacre and destruction by Nazi Germany that took place on 10 June...
    Film: Life and Death in Occupied France

  • From strategic routes to economic lifelines: the historical and contemporary importance of La Pintada

      Article
    In his work on the local history of his hometown in Panama, Miguel Elias Escobar Cornejo highlights the importance of understanding the geography of the historical sites we study. Here, he explains how a defensive route from the coast to the rugged mountain interior developed into one of the most important...
    From strategic routes to economic lifelines: the historical and contemporary importance of La Pintada

  • Film: Yeltsin - Early Life

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Edwin Bacon (University of Lincoln) introduces us to the young Boris Yeltsin, a true product of the Stalinist years. He explores how a young Yeltsin caught the eye of the Communist officials, allowing him to work his way up from a civil engineer to the politburo. Dr...
    Film: Yeltsin - Early Life

  • Comparing the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Jameson Raid

      Historian article
    Duplicated Debacles? A comparison of the 1895-96 Jameson Raid and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. Adam Burns and Robert Gallimore take us on two invasions, one by land and one by sea. Following the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and the rise to power of the socialist regime of Fidel...
    Comparing the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Jameson Raid

  • Film: Lenin and the 1917 Revolutions

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    You wait a lifetime for a revolution and then two come along at once! Such was 1917 in Russia. As the world seemed in chaos and Russia and the Russian people began to collapse, Lenin and the Bolsheviks saw their opportunity and overthrew the government to create the first communist...
    Film: Lenin and the 1917 Revolutions

  • Elementary Education in the Nineteenth Century

      Classic Pamphlet
    All schemes for education involve some consideration of the surrounding society, its existing structure and how it will-and should-develop. Thus the interaction of educational provision and institutions with patterns of employment, social mobility and political behaviour are fascinatingly complex. The spate of valuable local studies emphasizes this complexity and makes...
    Elementary Education in the Nineteenth Century

  • Kilpeck Church: a window on medieval 'mentalite'

      Historian article
    In the village of Kilpeck, about eight miles south-west of Hereford, may be found the small parish church of St Mary and St David, justifiably described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most perfect Norman village churches in England’ (Pevsner 1963, 201). Seemingly remote today, in the twelfth century the...
    Kilpeck Church: a window on medieval 'mentalite'

  • Film: Discussion: Key organisations in the Civil Rights Movement

      Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
    Professor Tony Badger, Professor Joe Street and Professor Brian Ward discuss the African-American Civil Rights movement and examine different ways we might interpret the significance of key individuals, groups, institutions and events that played a role in its development and progress. During the Civil Rights campaigns period in the 1960s key...
    Film: Discussion: Key organisations in the Civil Rights Movement

  • Film: A conversation on Goethe with A.N. Wilson

      Article
    In Goethe: His Faustian life, award-winning biographer, critic and writer A. N. Wilson tells the spellbinding story of the life of Goethe. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy, to his later years as Germany’s most heroic intellectual figure, Wilson hones in on Goethe’s undying obsession with the work he would spend his...
    Film: A conversation on Goethe with A.N. Wilson

  • Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through some of the key ideas on the shape, size and movements of the Earth as they changed over time from classical cosmology to the work of Galileo and Isaac Newton.
    Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet

  • What did ‘Mature Socialism’ mean for the Soviet Union?

      Historian article
    David Shipp analyses the state of socialism in the Soviet Union, from Brezhnev to Chernenko. ‘What is he thinking of? Reform, reform. Who needs it, and who can understand it? We need to work better, that is the only problem.’ These reported words of Leonid Brezhnev epitomise the view of the period...
    What did ‘Mature Socialism’ mean for the Soviet Union?

  • Architecture within the reach of all

      Historian article
    Roisin Inglesby introduces us to the life and work of a lesser known member of the Arts and Crafts movement, Arthur Heygate  Mackmurdo, who helped to change the face of European architecture and interior design. Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851–1942) may not be a household name, but he is arguably one of the most significant figures in British design...
    Architecture within the reach of all

  • ‘The story of her own wretchedness’: heritage and homelessness

      Historian article
    David Howell uses eighteenth-century beggars at Tintern Abbey as a starting point for his research into the use of heritage sites by the homeless. In 1782, the Reverend William Gilpin published his Observations on the River Wye, a notable contribution to the emerging picturesque movement. A key element of his work is a commentary on Tintern Abbey....
    ‘The story of her own wretchedness’: heritage and homelessness

  • Promoting the First World War, 1914-16

      Historian article
    The popular image of the First World War is of young men leaving the tedium of the factory or the mine to volunteer for service on the Western Front in one of Kitchener’s new armies. Less well known is the background effort that went into maintaining and strengthening morale as...
    Promoting the First World War, 1914-16

  • British Women in the Nineteenth Century

      Classic Pamphlet
    A short pamphlet surveying the historical record of rather more than half the population of Britain over a period of a hundred years must of necessity be sketchy and incomplete. The great interest in history of women which has arisen in the last few decades has produced a great deal...
    British Women in the Nineteenth Century