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The George Square Statues
Article
Collectively, the 12 statues in the Square with Wellington adjacent comprise a superb history of the nineteenth century both locally and nationally. The statues fall into 5 groups: royalty – Victoria and Albert; politics – Oswald, Peel, Gladstone; literature – Scott, Burns, Campbell; military – Moore, Clyde; science & technology...
The George Square Statues
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My grandfather's recollections of the invasion of Normandy
Historian article
16-year-old Daisy Black of Newcastle-under-Lyme School in Staffordshire was the Senior Award winner in the Spirit of Normandy Trust Young Historian competition in 2007. Having been judged the winner by the Young Historian panel, the Spirit of Normandy Trsutees were so taken with her entry that they gave her an...
My grandfather's recollections of the invasion of Normandy
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LGBTQ+ History Month 2026
20th January 2026
February is LGBTQ+ History Month and the Historical Association has spent a number of years ensuring that the ways in which the past has recorded and represented these communities has been included in our general output. A key issue of presenting the work of historians who are investigating this history...
LGBTQ+ History Month 2026
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Strange goings-on: exploring the benefits of learning history through outdoor pedagogy
Primary History article
Learning history outside the classroom has tremendous benefits. This article looks at one such example where children can get an immersive, residential historical experience. This not only provides a memorable learning experience, but the combination of an evocative setting, together with carefully crafted activities taught using an outdoor pedagogy, allows...
Strange goings-on: exploring the benefits of learning history through outdoor pedagogy
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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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The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
2 Jawaharlal Nehru: the last viceroy? - Judtih M. Brown (Read article)
8 Travelling the 17th-century English Economy: a rediscovery of Celia Fiennes - Pam Sharpe (Read article)
12 War Plan Red: The American Plan for war with Britain - John Major (Read article)
15 Photography in Korea...
The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
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Women’s Suffrage: the road to equality
Web resource launched to tie in with centenary of Act allowing women to stand as MPs
2018 has – rightly – seen a strong emphasis on the story of the suffragettes, of those courageous individuals who took to militant methods to get the vote for women. This is not their story; it is the often-overlooked story of the many thousands of women and men who fought...
Women’s Suffrage: the road to equality
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Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
Article
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around the world? ...
Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
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Professor Justin Champion
18th June 2020
With great sadness the Historical Association has learned of the death of our former President, Professor Justin Champion on 10th June after a long illness. Justin was President of the Historical Association from May 2014 until May 2017 and he was a very popular choice, partly because of his background...
Professor Justin Champion
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West Surrey Branch Programme
Article
All enquiries to Matthew Smith membershipwsha@yahoo.co.uk
Entry to meetings is free for HA members and students. Associate membership of the branch which gives free entry to all meetings is £15 per year. Non-members £6 per meeting, payable at the door. Meetings on Tuesday except where stated.
All meetings start at...
West Surrey Branch Programme
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Teaching History 200: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 200: Telling Histories
In his recent book on the experiences of Parisians in the years leading up to the French Revolution, Robert Darnton describes the Tree of Cracow, a large chestnut tree in the garden of the Palais-Royal in central Paris.1 ‘Nouvellistes de bouche’ (oral newsmongers) gathered...
Teaching History 200: Out now
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Young Historian Awards 2026 – take part (Secondary prizes)
History competition for students
The 2026 competition is now open. Entries close on 17 July 2026 (3 July for overseas entries).
Researching, writing and presenting ideas about a historical theme or period is one of the best parts about studying history. We want young school and college aged students to get the bug for...
Young Historian Awards 2026 – take part (Secondary prizes)
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Away from the Western Front launches two national projects
Creative Writing Competition and National Music Project
‘Away from the Western Front’ has launched two national projects and is offering everyone a chance to make a contribution to this First World War centenary commemoration.
A National Music project and a Creative Writing Competition are part of the Heritage Lottery funded First World War 'Away from the Western...
Away from the Western Front launches two national projects
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Making History
New Website
Making History
Making History, developed by the Institute of Historical Research, is dedicated to the history of the study and practice of history in Britain over the last hundred years and more, following the emergence of the professional discipline in the late 19th century.
Contents
This website contains cross-referenced entries...
Making History
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Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
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Modern Russia
Selected Articles and Publications
A selection of useful articles on modern Russia and the USSR:
1. Alexander II: Emancipation and Reform in Russia 1855-1881
The ‘great reforms' of Tsar Alexander II (1855-81) are generally recognised as the most significant events in modern Russian history between the reign of Peter the Great and the revolutions...
Modern Russia
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The Historian 17
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Sir Robert Peel, 1788-1850, Asa Briggs
8 Education Forum: The National Curriculum — what sort of history? Martin Roberts and Donald Read
9 Update: Politics and Religion in Tudor England, Ralph Houlbrooke
The Historian 17
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My Favourite History Place: The Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Historian article
Until it was overtaken in the twentieth century by Berlin and Moscow, Paris was the political, cultural and revolutionary hub around which Europe revolved. When the revolutionary Parisian crowd trudged out to Versailles in 1789 to attack the chateau and bring the king and his family back to the capital, they...
My Favourite History Place: The Musée Carnavalet, Paris
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After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles?
Historian article
This article examines the aftermath of three epoch-making periods of change – the English, American, and French Revolutions. A comparison of the trio of military commanders who gained power as a direct consequence of these upheavals reveals how the very political radicalism which brought them to power also threatened to...
After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles?
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Making substantive concepts (do the) work
Teaching History article
Several years back, Alistair Dickins and Tommy-James Alexander realised they wanted to incorporate explicit consideration of substantive concepts into their Key Stage 3 teaching, to enable students to make sense of and order information about the past and to offer students a usable language that would support their historical reasoning. In reality,...
Making substantive concepts (do the) work
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Task design for historical thinking
Primary History article
In this article, Julia Huber examines how task design can support pupils’ historical thinking in the primary classroom. Drawing on her own practice, she shares examples that develop conceptual understanding in areas such as significance, similarity and difference, continuity and change, and interpretations...
Task design for historical thinking
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Virtual Branch Recording: 'Hidden Histories of the Viking Age'
Embers of the Hands
Eleanor Barraclough tells a richly detailed history of the Viking Age through the everyday objects and traces left by ordinary people, revealing the complex, lived realities behind the familiar saga‑era myths.
Dr Eleanor Barraclough is a historian, author and broadcaster. Her most recent book, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories...
Virtual Branch Recording: 'Hidden Histories of the Viking Age'
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Cunning Plan 202: interdisciplinary teaching of landscape through time
Teaching History feature
From a young age I have been fascinated by the history of the landscape. Family holidays in the Lake District offered early encounters with the past that did not come mediated through textbooks, but through place. Driving over Dunmail Raise, my father would point out that the ancient ruler, Dunmail...
Cunning Plan 202: interdisciplinary teaching of landscape through time
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The Historian 168: Out now
The magazine of the Historical Association
Read The Historian 168: Economic History
It is only in recent decades that economic history has become integrated into the mainstream work of historians. Those of us who were undergraduates in the late twentieth century can remember university economic history departments being located in buildings on the other side of...
The Historian 168: Out now
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The Historian 168: Economic History
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Ask The Historian
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 A stimulating journey along the ‘weary paths of Dryasdust’: using financial records to gain insights into medieval society – Alisdair Dobie (Read article)
11 Letters
12 Women who stirred the pot: female protagonists in early East India Company history – Karin Doull (Read...
The Historian 168: Economic History
