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  • 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

  • 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

  • War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain

      Article
    John Major discusses an astonishing aspect of past Anglo-American history. All great powers have developed contingency plans for war with each other, and the United States in the early twentieth century was no exception. Each of Washington’s schemes was given a distinctive colour. Green mapped out intervention in neighbouring Mexico,...
    War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain

  • 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?

  • What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?

      Twentieth-century history
    Prior to the East European revolutions of 1989, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, commentators outside the region were largely reliant on printed material collected by specialist research libraries, informal rrangements with contacts ‘behind the iron curtain’, information that could be gleaned from visits to the region, and...
    What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?

  • The Second World War

      Classic Pamphlet
    On 5 September 1939 the German Führer, Adolf Hitler, paid a surprise visit to the corps which was in the forefront of his army's ferocious assault upon Poland. As they passed the remains of a smashed Polish artillery regiment, the corps commander, General Guderian, astonished Hitler by telling him that...
    The Second World War

  • Who were the Nuns? English Convents in Exile 1600-1800

      Public History Podcast
    An HA Public History Podcast featuring Dr Andrew Foster and Dr Caroline Bowden discussing the project: Who were the Nuns? A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800. 'Who were the Nuns?' is a funded project at Queen Mary, Universty of London that has been making a comprehensive study of...
    Who were the Nuns? English Convents in Exile 1600-1800

  • Film: Foreign Relations and Tudor Royal Authority – discussion

      Development of Tudor Royal Authority film series
    In this film Professor Sue Doran, Jesus College, University of Oxford and Professor Steven Gunn, Merton College, University of Oxford discuss the role foreign relations played in Tudor royal authority and the amount of power Tudor monarchs were able to exercise. The film will explore common threads and differences in foreign policy...
    Film: Foreign Relations and Tudor Royal Authority – discussion

  • Film: Lenin, the 1905 Russian Revolution and WWI

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    The founders of Communism, Marx and Engels, had created a set of social structures and industrial developments that were believed necessary for Communism to be achieved. Imperial Russia did not fit these conditions and yet at the start of the twentieth century Russian revolutionaries were some of the most active...
    Film: Lenin, the 1905 Russian Revolution and WWI

  • Mountbatten in retirement: the abortive trip to rebel Rhodesia

      Historian article
    Adrian Smith investigates an abortive plan for the earl to intervene in Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Earl Mountbatten of Burma boasted a unique CV: Chief of Combined Operations, Supreme Commander South-East Asia, Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord, Chief of the Defence Staff, and Viceroy of India. Yet somehow...
    Mountbatten in retirement: the abortive trip to rebel Rhodesia

  • Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991

      Germany 1871-1945: Introduction
    The rise and fall of Germany in the 20th Century is one of the major political arcs of the modern period, and one that many feel familiar with – from the unification of the Germanic states, the defeat of the Kaiser in 1918, revolution, a weak Weimar Republic all the...
    Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991

  • The Origins of the Second Great War

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet provides a detailed account of  the events leading up to the outbreak of war in 1939, covering the various factors that played a role in the outbreak of war such as tension over Poland and the Spanish Civil War, as well as the nature and effect of diplomatic...
    The Origins of the Second Great War

  • Films: Mikhail Gorbachev – Interpretations

      Film series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    How much of what Russia is today, how its people behave, and how they are perceived is dependent on its history and those that have led it? Was it the first melting pot of the world? Do its broad range of cultural traditions and diversity play a part in its...
    Films: Mikhail Gorbachev – Interpretations

  • 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

  • Podcast Series: The Rise of an Islamic Civilisation

      Early Islam
    An HA Podcasted History of the Rise of an Islamic Civilisation featuring Dr Caroline Goodson of Birkbeck, University of London.
    Podcast Series: The Rise of an Islamic Civilisation

  • Berlin and the Berlin Wall: on-demand short course

      Online self-guided short course for lifelong learners
    The Berlin Wall became a symbol of a time in history, and a physical defining point in an otherwise covert series of battles. To study and explore the Berlin Wall is to explore how the Cold War manifested itself in Central Europe and the impact it had on one nation...
    Berlin and the Berlin Wall: on-demand short course

  • Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI

      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: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI

  • Real Lives: Alexander Stewart

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. If you have any people that you think might also fit this category and would like to write about them, please do contact: martin.hoare@history.org.uk  Alexander Stewart’s life combined hardship, resilience and moral conviction....
    Real Lives: Alexander Stewart

  • Recruiting volunteers to fight in the First World War

      Historian article
    ‘Your Country Needs You’ and other posters are still remembered today as a prominent vehicle by which men were encouraged to fight in the First World War. Virtually absent from the literature, however, is analysis of the impact of thousands of recruitment meetings and their speakers. Robert Bullard explores the contribution...
    Recruiting volunteers to fight in the First World War

  • Film: Khrushchev - Background

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Alexander Titov (Queen's University of Belfast), provides a profile of Khrushchev’s background and personality and how these influenced his politics and ideas. Dr Titov takes us on a journey from Khrushchev's peasant beginnings in Kursk, his rapid rise in the communist party, his role in the purges, to...
    Film: Khrushchev - Background

  • Legacies of the Cement Armada

      Historian article
    Steven Pierce writes about Nigeria, long known for its flamboyant corruption, some of which stems from accidents of history. Its true international notoriety emerged in 1974–75, when half the world’s concrete supply was mysteriously diverted to the port of Lagos, paralysing it for a year. This article examines how the press coverage...
    Legacies of the Cement Armada

  • History Abridged: The City of Alexandria

      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 One of the oldest cities...
    History Abridged: The City of Alexandria

  • Anti-Americanism in Britain during the Second World War

      Historian article
    The Second World War saw the development of significant anti-Americanism in Britain. This article locates the centre of wartime anti-Americanism in the politics of Conservative imperialists, who believed the USA was trying to deliberately dismantle the British Empire in order to fulfil its own imperial ambitions. The Second World War...
    Anti-Americanism in Britain during the Second World War

  • History Abridged: American Policy: theory and practice over 200 years

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: In this feature we take a person, time, theme or event and tell you the vast rich history in small space. A long dip into history in a shortened form. See all History Abridged articles The ‘Monroe Doctrine’ in 1825 provided a cornerstone for future United States foreign policy. Drafted...
    History Abridged: American Policy: theory and practice over 200 years

  • My great-grandfather and the Italian Campaign

      Historian article
    This remarkable item by a student at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield was the winning Young Historian entry in the Key Stage 3 Spirit of Normandy Trust category in 2022. I’ve always known my great-grandfather fought in the Second World War, but never like this. When he left the army, he never...
    My great-grandfather and the Italian Campaign