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Using Large Learning Models in the History Classroom: practical perspectives
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History: The Journal of the Historical Association has a long tradition of addressing questions of pedagogic practice in its pages. Most recently, this has included an article on school-university collaborations in our June 2025 issue. Moreover, our December 2025 issue is set to feature a series of contributions on 'Creative History in...
Using Large Learning Models in the History Classroom: practical perspectives
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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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From Kew to KaNgwane: The Development of a Case Study in British-Bantustan Relations
History journal blog
This blog post complements the first view publication of the author's History journal article: “‘A cultivated leader and sensible spokesman for black African views’: Britain's Courting of KaNgwane Chief Minister Enos J. Mabuza”.
During my doctoral studies into British cultural diplomacy in apartheid South Africa, I developed a keen interest in the history...
From Kew to KaNgwane: The Development of a Case Study in British-Bantustan Relations
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“Striving to facilitate the achievement of the PIRA’s aims”?
History journal blog
Professor Paul Dixon teaches at the Universities of Leicester and Queen Mary University of London and is the author of The Militarisation of British Democracy (forthcoming). This blog complements the first view publication of his History journal article: “Striving to Facilitate the Achievement of the PIRA's Aims”? The Labour Government, the Army and the...
“Striving to facilitate the achievement of the PIRA’s aims”?
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The Historical Association was founded in 1906 with the intention of supporting everyone interested in the study and teaching of history. Today it has around 45 branches throughout the UK, and over 10,000 individual, corporate and associate members.
Each of the HA branches organises a programme of talks and events each year,...
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Sustaining Missions: Cuthbert G. Young and Transnational Evangelical Collaboration in the Ottoman Empire
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuthbert George Young emerged as a quietly influential figure in the world of Christian missionary work. Unlike the missionaries who travelled to distant lands to spread their religious doctrines, Young played a behind the scenes role. Yet his contributions were crucial to sustaining evangelical efforts in...
Sustaining Missions: Cuthbert G. Young and Transnational Evangelical Collaboration in the Ottoman Empire
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History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
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History: The Journal of the Historical Association is delighted to launch the 2025 round of its bursary scheme, which is designed to support research that will result in an article submission to History, which is jointly published by the Historical Association and Wiley.
We anticipate offering one award to an...
History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
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Photographs and Historians: Reflections on some Nazi Era Photos in U.S. Archives
History journal blog
I recently enjoyed what a historian would consider cut-up-the-rug fun; several days of research in the United States National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, MD and the Third Reich Collection in the Library of Congress.
In NARA’s reading room, I lost myself among open shelves containing dozens of...
Photographs and Historians: Reflections on some Nazi Era Photos in U.S. Archives
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Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog
History journal blog
Image: Social media sites have provided a platform for fierce debates about the statues of slave traders such as Edward Colston.
Even if we think the so-called ‘culture war’ is an overinflated red herring, there’s no denying that some of the fiercest debates about history are occurring online. Contests over...
Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog
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Higher Education Committee biographies
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Katharine Burn
Katharine Burn is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Oxford, where she teaches on the PGCE History programme and on a range of part-time Masters courses for practising teachers. She is co-editor of the HA’s professional...
Higher Education Committee biographies
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Historians in History, part 1: 1912-1939
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This is the first in a new series looking at the historians who have published in History: The Journal of the Historical Association, since it was founded in 1912. The journal has a long-standing record of featuring some of the most distinguished UK and UK-based historians and its pages constitute...
Historians in History, part 1: 1912-1939
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Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: The Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V
History journal blog
This blog post and interview complement the first view publication of the author's History journal article: ‘Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: the Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V’.
The disappearance in 1483 of King Edward V and his brother Richard, duke of York - the 'Princes in the Tower' -...
Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: The Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V
