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  • British Defence and Appeasement Between the Wars 1919-1939

      Classic Pamphlet
    Armed forces never exist in isolation, but always operate against a background of political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and ideological conditions and attitudes, as well as in relation to diplomatic and strategic factors. Some governments regards their military forces especially their armies, more as instruments for maintaining internal order than...
    British Defence and Appeasement Between the Wars 1919-1939

  • The American Diplomatic Tradition

      Classic Pamphlet
    Indisputably, the United States of America has been and continues to be the leading power of the twentieth century. No country or people, however large or small, has been immune from American influence. A succession of American presidents have become international celebrities whose personal strengths and weaknesses are discussed and disssected...
    The American Diplomatic Tradition

  • Nazism and Stalinism

      Classic Pamphlet
    Is it legitimate to compare the Nazi and Stalinist regimes? There might seem little room for doubt. It is often taken as self-evident that the two regimes were variations of a common type. They are bracketed together in school and university courses, as well as text books, under labels such...
    Nazism and Stalinism

  • Pressure and Persuasion Canadian agents and Scottish emigration, c. 1870- c. 1930

      Article
    In February, 1907, the Canadian government’s most northerly regional emigration office in the British Isles opened for business in Aberdeen. Located near the city centre, only a stone’s throw from the docks and the railway station, it soon fulfilled the expectation that it would capture the attention of a large...
    Pressure and Persuasion Canadian agents and Scottish emigration, c. 1870- c. 1930

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

      Historian article
    High school history teacher Brent Dyck is one of our Canadian readers. He has offered this item to The Historian as a contribution to our commitment to explore the historical approaches and values that we are seeking to convey to young people and the wider public. We hope that you may...
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

  • Dean Mahomet: Travel writer, curry entrepreneur and shampooer to the King

      Historian article
    The National Portrait Gallery in London is home to many thousands of portraits, photographs and sculptures of the great and the good, as well as those who travelled on the darker side of history. In 2007 it hosted a small exhibition in the Porter Gallery entitled Between Worlds: Voyagers to...
    Dean Mahomet: Travel writer, curry entrepreneur and shampooer to the King

  • Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

      Historian article
    Sarah Davies explores the evidence that even in the most repressive phases of Stalin’s rule, there existed a flourishing ‘shadow culture’, a lively and efficient unofficial network of information and ideas. 'Today a man only talks freely with his wife — at night, with the blankets pulled over his head.’...
    Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

  • Echoes of Tsushima

      Historian article
    In 2005 East Asian regional strategy is once again a hot topic for policy makers, diplomats and journalists. As China begins to reassert herself regionally and as her economy revives to challenge conceptions of her place in the world, Japan, Russia, Korea (North and South) and the United States are...
    Echoes of Tsushima

  • Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show opens London's Earl Court in 1887

      Historian article
    ‘It is often said on the other side of the water that none of the exhibitions which we send to England are purely and distinctively American', exhorted Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) in an unsolicited letter of September 1884 to ‘Colonel' William Frederick Cody (1846-1917). ‘If you will take the Wild...
    Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show opens London's Earl Court in 1887

  • The Pennsylvanian Origins of British Abolitionism

      Historian article
    It can have escaped the attention of very few people in the United Kingdom that 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in British ships. Slavery itself continued to be legal in Britain and its colonies until the 1830s, while other nations continued both to...
    The Pennsylvanian Origins of British Abolitionism

  • The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

      Historian article
    On 29 January 1949 there was a debate in the British House of Commons. When Winston Churchill, the leader of the opposition, interrupted Ernest Bevin’s history of the Palestine problem he was told by the Foreign Secretary: ‘over half a million Arabs have been turned by the Jewish immigrants into...
    The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

  • Iconic Images of War: photographs that changed history

      Historian article
    The recent photographs taken of US troops apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners-of-war in Abu Ghraib Jail have attracted attention across the world. Although it is too early to say whether these images will come to represent the essential character of the current Iraq conflict, they have altered public perceptions, producing doubt...
    Iconic Images of War: photographs that changed history

  • Attitudes to Liberty and Enslavement: the career of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship surgeon and captain

      Historian article
    Prior to abolition in 1807, Britain was the world’s leading slave trading nation. Of an estimated six million individuals forcibly transported from Africa in the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, almost 2.5 million (40 per cent) were carried in British vessels.2 The contemporary attitudes and assumptions which underpinned...
    Attitudes to Liberty and Enslavement: the career of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship surgeon and captain

  • Russian Revolution: Social Movements between the Revolutions Feb-Oct 1917

      Lecture
    On the 29th November Dr Jane McDermid gave the second of her lectures on the Russian Revolution, at the Weston Theatre, Manchester. John Laver, Principal Examiner in History at AQA also gave some invaluable advice on how to answer A Level History Exam questions. Click the links below to access their lecture notes>>>...
    Russian Revolution: Social Movements between the Revolutions Feb-Oct 1917

  • The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century

      Historian article
    During the last century or so there has developed a new ‘public role’ for history: the past as personal history, a vital element in the nourishing of people in society. During the past decades a new perception of what history is has manifested itself on two levels: first a shift of...
    The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century

  • Podcast: Stalin 1928-1941

      Podcast
    On 15th November Dr Jane McDermid gave the first lecture in the HA's Sixth Form Lecture Series on the making of the Stalinist State at the National Archives, Kew. Click on the following links below to listen to her lecture and read the lecture notes!
    Podcast: Stalin 1928-1941

  • Britain and the Formation of NATO

      Article
    Carl Watts outlines the shift in British security policy and examines the role played by the Foreign Office during the post-War period. April 1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty, which came into effect in August 1949. The Cold War is over, but NATO...
    Britain and the Formation of NATO

  • Personality & Power: The individual's role in the history of twentieth-century Europe

      Article
    What role do individuals wielding great power play in determining significant historical change? And how do historians locate human agency in historical change, and explain it? These are the issues I would like to reflect a little upon here. They are not new problems. But they are inescapable ones for...
    Personality & Power: The individual's role in the history of twentieth-century Europe

  • A-Level Essay: To what extent does the art of the Edo period of Japan reflect the contentment of the classes within its society?

      Article
    The Edo period in Japanese history fell between the years 1600 and 1867, beginning when Tokugawa Ieyatsu, a daimyo (samurai lord), became the strongest power in Japan, and ending with Tokugawa Keiki’s abdication. The Tokugawas claimed the hereditary title of Shogun, supreme governor of Japan. (The emperor had become a...
    A-Level Essay: To what extent does the art of the Edo period of Japan reflect the contentment of the classes within its society?

  • ‘Savages and rattlesnakes’ Washington, District of Columbia: A British Diplomat's view 1823-5

      Historian article
    Henry Unwin Addington, a nephew of the former British prime minister, Henry Addington, had joined the Foreign Office at the age of 16 in 1806. After serving in various junior diplomatic posts in Europe he learnt in 1822 that he was to be promoted to secretary of legation in Washington....
    ‘Savages and rattlesnakes’ Washington, District of Columbia: A British Diplomat's view 1823-5

  • The Japanese History Textbook Controversy: a Content Analysis

      Historian article
    With almost monotonous regularity the official release in Japan of new or revised secondary school history textbook editions, as well as primeministerial annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine to commemorate the 2.5 million Japanese war dead (including 14 Class-A war criminals), unleash a wave of international protest concerning Japan’s official...
    The Japanese History Textbook Controversy: a Content Analysis

  • The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997

      Article
    Andrew Whitfield examines the recovery of Hong Kong from the Japanese, 52 years before its return to China. As the clock ticks ever closer to midnight on 30 June 1997, the sun will set on Britain’s last major colonial outpost. Thousands of miles from the motherland, the colony originally acted...
    The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997

  • The Migration of Indians to Guiana and Surinam

      Article
    While migration from Europe to North America and elsewhere is well known, that from India is less familiar to Western readers. Ananda Dulal Sarkar provides an account of Indian migrants to the former British and Dutch Guianas. Within India, particularly during British rule, young and able-bodied males migrated hundreds of...
    The Migration of Indians to Guiana and Surinam

  • Brazil and the two World Wars

      Article
    Brazil and the outbreak of the First World War At the beginning of the twentieth century Brazil was on the periphery of a world order that revolved around decisions made by the great European powers. Although it was the largest and most populated nation in South America, Brazil possessed an...
    Brazil and the two World Wars

  • The Military Historian and the Popular Image of the Western Front, 1914-1918

      Article
    Ian Beckett reviews recent revisionist interpretations of the Western Front. English teachers have much to answer for in terms of the enduring popular image of the Great War. Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves are still pressed regularly into action as if they could possibly stand representatives of the...
    The Military Historian and the Popular Image of the Western Front, 1914-1918