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  • 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

  • Travelling the Seventeenth-Century English Economy: Rediscovery of Celia Fiennes

      Article
    Pam Sharpe reflects on the journals and expeditions of a 17th-century traveller. I first encountered Celia Fiennes (1662-1741), early modern traveller and journal writer, when I was an undergraduate. Being a keen traveller myself and studying social and economic history, Fiennes’ journeys fascinated me1. Here was a woman who travelled...
    Travelling the Seventeenth-Century English Economy: Rediscovery of Celia Fiennes

  • Film: What a strange place to be buried

      Virtual Branch Film
    Anna Cusack joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss unique burial locations in London c.1600-1800. Anna recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the marginal dead of seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, focusing specifically on suicides, executed criminals, Quakers, and Jews and the treatment of their bodily remains...
    Film: What a strange place to be buried

  • 1939 After Sixty Years

      Article
    Historians view major anniversaries with a measure of ambivalence. We know that they are artificial, that it is merely a convenient fiction to think that the passage of a round number of years provides a privileged vantage point from which to review the significance of a given event. Yet we...
    1939 After Sixty Years

  • Polychronicon 162: Reinterpreting the May 1968 events in France

      Teaching History feature
    As Kristin Ross has persuasively argued, by the 1980s interpretations of the French events of May 1968 had shrunk to a narrow set of received ideas around student protest, labelled by Chris Reynolds a ‘doxa’. Media discourse is dominated by a narrow range of former participants labelled ‘memory barons’ –...
    Polychronicon 162: Reinterpreting the May 1968 events in France

  • Introductory film: Brezhnev - Interpretations

      Part of the HA Interpretations Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Log in below to preview the introductory film - available to all registered users of the website. This open access introductory film forms part of our ongoing film series on Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union. All the films are available through the Student Zone with corporate secondary membership. ...
    Introductory film: Brezhnev - Interpretations

  • Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond

      Article
    Between 1917 and 1947, women in the Indian subcontinent were engaged in active debates and noteworthy demonstrations for the vote, building up a national suffrage movement. In this talk Professor Sumita Mukherjee discusses the activities of Indian suffragettes in this period, showing how they were connected with British and other...
    Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond

  • Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

      Article
    Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War.  Their experiences are little remembered today, neither in the West where a Euro/US-centric memory of the war dominates, nor in South Asia, which privileges nationalist histories of independence from the British Empire. What was it like...
    Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

  • The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899: The birth of social anthropology?

      Article
    Dr John Shepherd reviews the history of a major anthropological expedition one hundred years ago. On 10 March 1898 The Times reported that Cambridge Anthropological Expedition led by Alfred Cort Haddon had sailed from London, bound for the Torres Strait region between Australia and New Guinea. In Imperial Britain, the...
    The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899: The birth of social anthropology?

  • Royal Women: Queen Anne, Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II

      Royal Women
    In June 2012 the Historical Association and Historic Royal Palaces joined forces to offer a fantastic CPD opportunity in line with the Queen's diamond jubilee. Two CPD events around the theme of Royal Women charted the private histories of queens of the past from within the walls of their palaces. What...
    Royal Women: Queen Anne, Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II

  • Revision Tips: How To Revise Properly!

      GCSE History Guide
    To download the PDFs attached to this resource, plus access to a wealth of other online resources from podcasts to articles and publications, support and advice though our “How To”, examination and transition to university guides and careers resources, join the HA today Revision....how dull! The thought of re-learning the...
    Revision Tips: How To Revise Properly!

  • Recorded webinar series: The Olympic Games

      Culture and political impact across the twentieth century
    2024 was an Olympic Games year. Held every four years (with the exception of during the World Wars and Covid-19 restrictions), the modern Olympics is the largest international sporting event in the world. However, historically it has not always been just the sports that are played and the athletes’ performances...
    Recorded webinar series: The Olympic Games

  • Sir Francis Dent and the First World War

      Historian article
    Not your typical soldier, not your typical service The term ‘citizen soldier' evokes a particularly powerful image in Britain. The poignant histories of the ‘Pals' Battalions' cast a familiar, often tragic shadow over the popular memory of the First World War. Raised according to geographical and occupational connections, names such...
    Sir Francis Dent and the First World War

  • Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

      Article
    This webinar starts with a basic overview of the city-states of Classical Greece (roughly 500 to 350 BC) and Sparta’s place within their geography and history. It then looks at some common myths about the nature of Spartan society and politics, focusing on areas where recent research has transformed our...
    Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

  • Trewarthenick, Cornwall

      Historian article
    Christine North provides a fascinating insight into the history of Trewarthenick mansion and the resident Gregor family. Trewarthenick, the home of the Gregor family for nearly 400 years, lies on the north bank of the river Fal, in the tiny parish of Cornelly, near what used to be the rotten...
    Trewarthenick, Cornwall

  • Polychronicon 139: Civic denouncer: The lives of Pavlik Morozov

      Teaching History feature
    Germaine Greer (in the context of the Pirelli Calendar) once commented that the defining feature of a legend was that almost nothing said and believed about it was true. Pavlik Morozov, notorious both inside Russia and internationally for having denounced his father, almost certainly never did so. In September 1932, local...
    Polychronicon 139: Civic denouncer: The lives of Pavlik Morozov

  • Queen Anne

      18th Century British History
    In this podcast Lady Anne Somerset looks at the life, reputation and legacy of Queen Anne – the last of the Stuart monarchs, and the first sovereign of Great Britain. Anne was born on 6 February 1665 in London, the second daughter of James, Duke of York, brother of Charles II. Like many...
    Queen Anne

  • Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

      Historian article
    Medieval ‘Signs and Marvels': insights into medieval ideas about nature and the cosmic order. Many aspects of life in the Middle Ages puzzle the modern reader but some are stranger than others. What can possibly explain an event reported from Orford Castle, in Suffolk? This is an amazing tale and...
    Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta

      Article
    This month at the Virtual Branch, renowned medieval historian David Carpenter will delve into the enduring legacy of Magna Carta. Drawing on his recent work uncovering and authenticating a Magna Carta document in the United States, Carpenter will explore why both the dating and the content of this foundational charter...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta

  • 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

  • The Story of the African Queen

      Historian article
    Where fact and fiction intercept: the story of The African Queen(s) by C.S. Forester When the Königin Luise was hull down over the horizon and the dhow was close in-shore the lieutenant left his post and went down to the jetty to meet his senior officer. The dhow ran briskly in,...
    The Story of the African Queen

  • A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester

      Historian article
    The Tirah memorial stands in a corner of Borough Gardens, a Victorian park in Dorchester, county town of Dorset. It is a granite obelisk decorated with a motif of honeysuckle and laurel wreaths standing 4.5 metres high on a square granite plinth. This in turn stands upon a circular concrete...
    A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester

  • The Bristol Riots

      Classic Pamphlet
    In 1831, Bristol suffered the worst outbreak of urban rioting since the Gordon Riots in London over fifty years earlier. Twelve rioters were officially declared to have died as a result of confrontations with troops and special constables, and many more unidentifiable corpses were discovered among the ruins of the...
    The Bristol Riots

  • 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

  • Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

      Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
    In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
    Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare