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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 4
Branch Publication
This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorNineteenth Century FactsThe Cry for Meaning, Richard NyeThe Nineteenth CenturyThe Merthyr Rising, Steffan ap-DaffydPembrokeshire Slate in the 19th Century, Alan John RichardsAnn of Swansea, Caroline FranklinBook Review, Neath Antiquarian Volume 2Stalin, Hitler and Mr JonesLetter and Book ReviewRobert Burns 1759 - 1796,...
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 4
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Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History
Branch History
The Branch is proud of its role in the foundation of the Historical Association in 1906. Professor Thomas Frederick Tout and others at Manchester University had been discussing the idea of forming an Association to promote the teaching of a more relevant and vibrant form of history than was currently...
Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History
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Lincoln Branch Programme
Article
All enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood woodjamie999@gmail.com All talks start at 6.15pm and take place on the Brayford Pool Campus of the University of Lincoln.
To book: https://cityoflincolnbranchha.wordpress.com/lecture-programme-and-booking/.
Talks are free to national HA members, teachers and students, and University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University staff and students. Associate...
Lincoln Branch Programme
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Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole Branch Programme
Article
There is an admission charge of £5 for non- HA members and £3 for students at Monday lectures. Associate membership of the branch is £20 per year.
Monday evening lectures take place at 7.25 pm at the West Cliff Hotel, Durley Chine Rd BH2 5JS. Free parking is available in the...
Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole Branch Programme
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Women in Late Medieval Bristol
Classic Pamphlet
During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Bristol was one of England's greatest towns, with a population of perhaps 100,000 after the Black Death of 1348. Its status was recognised in 1373, with its creation as the realm's first provincial urban county, but only in 1542, with the creation of the...
Women in Late Medieval Bristol
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100 not out: the Nuneaton branch centenary
HA News
For the 2018–19 season, the Nuneaton Branch of the HA is celebrating its centenary. Founded in 1919, by 1921 there were 78 members. In 1924, members went on a ‘charabanc’ tour of Leicestershire churches, ending at Fenny Drayton, where they joined in the celebrations for the tercentenary of the birth...
100 not out: the Nuneaton branch centenary
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Nuneaton Branch History
Branch History
The Nuneaton Branch of the H.A. was originally founded in November 1919 as one part of a county wide Warwickshire branch. Instrumental in this was the editor of the Nuneaton Chronicle, Albert Francis Cross, assisted by local doctor turned local historian, Edward Nason. After this arrangement ended Nuneaton was re-founded...
Nuneaton Branch History
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Podcast: Richard Evans Medlicott -The Origins of the First World War
Medlicott Podcast
This year the Historical Association's Medlicott medal for services to history went to Professor Sir Richard Evans. Richard Evans is the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has written numerous highly respected and internationally best-selling books. Evans is bests known for his works on...
Podcast: Richard Evans Medlicott -The Origins of the First World War
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Cardiff Branch Programme
Article
Cardiff Branch Programme 2025-26
All enquiries to Professor Peter Edbury Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk or Dr Paul Webster WebsterP@cardiff.ac.uk
All talks start at 7pm via Zoom or Teams. A link to the talk is provided by email from Dr Webster.
All talks are free and Zoom/Teams allow us to have speakers...
Cardiff Branch Programme
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Nuneaton Branch Programme
Article
Enquiries to Branch Secretary Michael Arnold. michael.arnold@cantab.net tel 07785 337147
Venue: Unless otherwise stated talks start at 7.30pm on Thursdays at Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre 4 Avenue Road, Nuneaton CV11 4LU. Ample parking available.
Associate membership is £15 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors: voluntary...
Nuneaton Branch Programme
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Birmingham Branch 1907-2007
Branch History
The Branch was founded in May 1907, a few months after the Historical Association was established. The founding Branch President was Professor John Masterman, Professor of History (1902-09) in the University of Birmingham's Department of Commerce, as it was designated in those days. He was one of several historians in...
Birmingham Branch 1907-2007
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Birmingham Branch History
Branch History
The Branch was founded in May 1907, a few months after the Historical Association was established. The founding Branch President was Professor John Masterman, Professor of History (1902-09) in the University of Birmingham's Department of Commerce, as it was designated in those days. He was one of several historians in...
Birmingham Branch History
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Exeter & District Branch Programme
Article
Thursday 12th February 2026
4.40 p.m. at Exeter College Exeter, Hele Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4JS (tel:+441392400500) Tower Lecture Theatre (use reception entrance at Hele Road site; directions will be given). Parking is available in the roads around the College but is metered.
The English Civil War (1642-1646)
Professor Mark...
Exeter & District Branch Programme
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Reading Branch Programme
Article
All enquiries to Chris Sexton – sexton44@gmail.com Tel 01344 779321 or 07957 184342
HA members, students and school pupils free. Non-members visitors £3. Associate branch membership £10 per annum.
Venue: Reading School, Erleigh Road, Reading RG1 5LW. Suppers precede each lecture from 6pm – cost £20 per person – are...
Reading Branch Programme
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History of the Cumbria Branch
Branch History
Cumbria Branch was founded in November 1971 as a result of a very successful tour of Hadrian's Wall, led by Peter Southern. We decided we needed a more permanent influence of the H.A. in Carlisle and Cumbria. There had been a Carlisle Branch earlier in the C20th but it folded...
History of the Cumbria Branch
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Bristol and the Slave Trade
Classic Pamphlet
Captain Thomas Wyndham of Marshfield Park in Somerset was on voyage to Barbary where he sailed from Kingroad, near Bristol, with three ships full of goods and slaves thus beginning the association of African Trade and Bristol. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Bristol was not a place of...
Bristol and the Slave Trade
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Mid-Trent Branch Programme
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Further details can always be obtained from Trevor James on 01543-258434 (trevorjamescroydon@gmail.com) or Sylvia Clifford on 01283-536250
Venues and times are listed with each meeting.
Mid-Trent Programme 2025 - 26
29 September 2025
Very Modern History: Professor Roger Ward on Neville Chamberlain
10.30am -12.30pm Sutton Coldfield Town Hall B73 6DA...
Mid-Trent Branch Programme
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HA Branches in the East Midlands
Branch details by region
Leicester Branch
Joint programme with Northampton Branch
Leicester Chair: Annabelle Larsen leicesterha@gmail.com
(Northampton Chair: David Waller david@davidwaller.org.uk)
Most talks will be on the second Tuesday of the month, 18.00-19.30.
Leicester branch programme
Lincoln Branch
Branch contact: enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk
Venue: All talks start at 6.15pm and take place at the Brayford Pool Campus of...
HA Branches in the East Midlands
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70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch
1st July 2020
In June 2020 the HA Isle of Wight branch celebrated its 70th birthday. Here, Honorary Secretary of the branch Terry Blunden looks back at the history and development of the branch since 1950.
Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906 sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on...
70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch
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Bath Branch Programme
Article
Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture.
For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945.
Lectures begin at 7.30 pm at...
Bath Branch Programme
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Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
Branch programmes
All enquiries to Ms Katie Hunter Email EdinburghandEastHA@outlook.com
Tel 07847314755 (out of working hours)
Talks USUALLY take place at 6pm in Old Medical School, Doorway 4, Edinburgh University, but always check the location of the individual event. No parking on site, good public transport.
Associate membership £20 per year. Talks...
Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
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HA Branches in the West Midlands
Branch details by region
Mid-Trent & Mercia Branch
Further details can always be obtained from Trevor James on 01543-258434 or Sylvia Clifford on 01283-536250
Venues and times are listed with each meeting.
All Branch meetings and sessions are free to HA/Branch members but there will be a small charge for visitors.
Mid-Trent Branch Programme
Nuneaton Branch...
HA Branches in the West Midlands
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Bristol Branch Programme
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Please contact Mary Feerick Secretary Maryfeerick58@gmail.com or 0117 9442898 for further details.
Annual branch membership is £15. All lectures are free to National HA members as well as University of Bristol staff & all students. Guests pay £5 on the door for a single lecture. Further details are available on...
Bristol Branch Programme
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Report on the Bristol Branch's A-level Russian History Conference
16th May 2024
The Bristol Branch of the HA’s A-level Russian History Conference27 March 2024
‘Such a great event – both for students and teachers. Many thanks…for organising it, and for sharing excellent resources’ (Mark Kauntze, Head of History Redland Green School, Bristol)
‘Brilliant, thank you… our students really enjoyed the experience.’ (Phill...
Report on the Bristol Branch's A-level Russian History Conference
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'Modernising Calcutta' by Professor Anindita Ghosh: filmed branch lecture
Watch the HA's first live-streamed branch lecture
On 3 December 2018, the Bolton Branch marked a first for the HA by live-streaming a lecture on Twitter. Professor Anindita Ghosh of the University of Manchester spoke to the branch on Calcutta in the 19th century. The event was streamed live on the branch’s Twitter feed, @boltonhistory.
Watch the lecture here (NB external website, opens...
'Modernising Calcutta' by Professor Anindita Ghosh: filmed branch lecture
