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  • Football and British-Soviet Relations

      Article
    Following the recent ‘Euro 96’ championship, Jim Phillips looks at two earlier international football tours which had major political and ideological connotations. In November 1945 Moscow Dynamo became the first Soviet football team to visit Britain, playing in Cardiff, Glasgow and twice in London. With English, Welsh and Scottish crowds...
    Football and British-Soviet Relations

  • Napoleon III and the French Second Empire

      Article
    The French Second Empire has been variously described as a precursor of Twentieth Century Fascism and a prime example of a modernising regime. Roger Price continues recents efforts to achieve a more balanced assessment by setting the regime within its particular social and political context. The origins of the Second...
    Napoleon III and the French Second Empire

  • Minority rights and wrongs in Eastern Europe in the 20th century

      Article
    Mark Cornwall reflects on past and present attempts by the international community to protect national minorities in Eastern Europe. On 19 March 1995, the Prime Ministers of Hungary and Slovakia met in Paris to sign a ‘Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation’ between their two countries; on 13 June it was...
    Minority rights and wrongs in Eastern Europe in the 20th century

  • The Insanity of Henry VI

      Article
    Carole Rawcliffe examines medieval attitudes to madness and the case of Henry VI. Mad kings are all the rage at present. The remarkable success, first of Alan Bennett’s stage play, The Madness of George III, and then of the widely acclaimed film version, has prompted a spate of newspaper articles...
    The Insanity of Henry VI

  • Faster, Higher, Stronger: The Birth of the Modern Olympics

      Article
    As the leading athletes of all nations prepare to come together this summer in Atlanta, the global communications media of the late twentieth century are constantly reminding us that 1996 marks the first centenary of the modern Olympic Games. The worldwide impact now made by these sporting festivals is all...
    Faster, Higher, Stronger: The Birth of the Modern Olympics

  • The Scottish Parliament by Robert S. Rait

      Classic Pamphlet
    This short pamphlet by the former Historiographer Royal for Scotland, Robert S. Rait, provides an introduction to the Scottish Parliament from its early origins to the Acts of Union of 1707.
    The Scottish Parliament by Robert S. Rait

  • 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

  • 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

  • Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

      Article
    Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War.  Their experiences are little remembered today, neither in the West where a Euro/US-centric memory of the war dominates, nor in South Asia, which privileges nationalist histories of independence from the British Empire. What was it like...
    Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

  • Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th- and 19th-century Britain

      Article
    There is a great deal of discussion at the moment about how we engage with and confront the history and legacies of slavery in twenty-first century Britain. A lot of attention has been placed on men like slave trader Edward Colston or merchant and slave-owner Robert Milligan, both of whom were memorialised...
    Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th- and 19th-century Britain

  • 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: Discussion: The post Civil Rights era

      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. In this final section the activities of the key individuals...
    Film: Discussion: The post Civil Rights era

  • Film: Discussion: The significance of the federal government to 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. Starting with the actions of the Supreme Court especially the...
    Film: Discussion: The significance of the federal government to the Civil Rights Movement

  • Film: Discussion: What global events influenced 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. The Civil Rights movement in the US was affected...
    Film: Discussion: What global events influenced the Civil Rights Movement?

  • 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: Discussion: The significance of individuals, presidents and communities to 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. In this film individual civil rights campaigners' actions are discussed...
    Film: Discussion: The significance of individuals, presidents and communities to the Civil Rights Movement

  • Film: Key groups in the African-American Civil Rights Movement

      Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
    In this film, Professor Brian Ward and Professor Joe Street of Northumbria University look at two of the key groups that played a significant role in the development of the Civil Rights Movement: the NAACP (The National Association for the Development of Coloured People) and the Black Panthers. If you're unable...
    Film: Key groups in the African-American Civil Rights Movement

  • Recorded webinar: Untold Stories of D-Day

      Webinar
    The HA has worked with film-maker,  historian and Legasee ambassador Martyn Cox on a series of webinars looking at untold stories from the Second World War. Many of these stories are taken for the oral histories provided in interviews given to Martyn on film.  In this filmed webinar, Martyn goes...
    Recorded webinar: Untold Stories of D-Day

  • Film: An introduction to the African-American Civil Rights Movement

      Article
    Film: An introduction to the African-American Civil Rights Movement

  • Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome

      Article
    In this webinar, Jane Draycott shares her research on prostheses and assistive technology in ancient Greece, Rome and the neighbouring civilisations. She outlines the findings from her 2023 book on this subject, which arose from a grant to visit museums around the UK to access surviving ancient prostheses and modern...
    Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome

  • Cinderella dreams: young love in post-war Britain

      Historian article
    In a lecture given to the Cambridge branch, Carol Dyhouse explains changing attitudes to marriage in the 1950s and 60s. Women teachers in the 1950s and 1960s regularly complained about how hard it was to keep girls’ attention on their schoolwork. Educationist Kathleen Ollerenshaw pointed out that the prospects of marriage,...
    Cinderella dreams: young love in post-war Britain

  • A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley

      Historian article
    Sara Read introduces us to a woman who challenged expectations during the turbulent years of the early seventeenth century. In 1622 a pious young woman with a highly unusual first name, Brilliana Conway, sat at her desk doodling her signature on her commonplace book. She had lofty ambitions for her self-development...
    A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley

  • 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

  • Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

      HA Webinar
    This year's Holocaust Memorial Day the theme is 'One Day'. In this webinar with historian Paula Kitching, we will use the one day Wannsee Conference of January 1942 to help explore the actions of the perpetrators, the Holocaust victims and how decision making by people can lead to genocide. This...
    Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

  • Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 12, Professor Michael Brown of the University of Aberdeen discusses who held power in Ireland in 1714 and how the protestant ascendancy developed following the fall of James II and the rise of the Hanoverian dynasty. This is a period increasingly defined by the exclusion of Ireland’s Catholic and...
    Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785