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What to expect when you choose to study History at University
A student's guide from personal experience to challenges you may have to face
Challenges you may have to face include:
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What to expect when you choose to study History at University
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Contribute to ‘History’ journal
The Journal of the Historical Association
First published in 1912, History has been a leader in its field ever since. It is unique in its range and variety, packing its pages with stimulating articles, extensive book reviews, and editorial notes. History balances its broad chronological coverage with a wide geographical spread of articles featuring contributions from social, political, cultural, economic...
Contribute to ‘History’ journal
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Contribute an Article to The Historian
Contribute
The Historian is the journal of the Historical Association that is for all our general members and for teacher members who want a little bit of extra subject knowledge.
Containing a mixture of themed articles, regular features and general interest, the journal comes out four times a year. Articles are...
Contribute an Article to The Historian
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Contribute an article to Teaching History
Contribute to our journals
Do you have an idea that you'd like to share with the Teaching History community? It's through member contributions that the HA maintains such a rich subject community – we'd love to hear from you!
Please don’t worry about being tentative, and please don’t worry if you have never written before! We really...
Contribute an article to Teaching History
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More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
27th February 2025
It’s been an especially grim start to 2025 for many in UK higher education. News in early January of cuts and job losses at the universities of Canterbury Christ Church, Northampton and Staffordshire has been followed by announcements from Cardiff, Durham, Newcastle, Reading and, once again, Kent. This, moreover, is...
More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
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New editorial team for the journal ‘History’
26th November 2024
The Historical Association is pleased to announce a new editorial team of the journal History. The Humanities Department of Northumbria University will be hosting an outstanding group of academics and scholars as the new commissioners and editors of the journal which was founded in 1912.
Becky Sullivan, CEO of the...
New editorial team for the journal ‘History’
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Talking to an HA Branch
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The inevitable answer is of course that branches differ in their audiences, with some having a smattering of academics, some with teachers and others largely made up with people with an interest in the subject but not professionally involved in history. That means some people will be relying on what...
Talking to an HA Branch
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Higher Education Committee remit
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The HA's Higher Education Committee will:
raise awareness in the UK-wide HE sector of the work of and benefits offered by the HA
ensure that the HA continues to disseminate an up-to-date and appropriate understanding of the way History is taught, researched and interpreted in higher education to the teaching...
Higher Education Committee remit
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Starting a new Branch
Organising and running an HA branch
The Historical Association and its branches
Branches have been an essential part of the Historical Association since it began. They exist in all parts of the United Kingdom and take a variety of forms.
A branch provides a local forum to bring together all those with an interest in history:...
Starting a new Branch
