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Reading Branch History
Branch History
Brief outline history of the Reading Branch of the Historical Association
Reading is one of the places to have had a branch before the First World War, between 1908 and 1911 as was shown in The Historian, ‘The Branches of the Historical Association 1906-2006'. The story of the current Reading...
Reading Branch History
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KS2 Egyptian Story & Lesson Resource
Book & Lesson Resource Review
Ma'at's Feather: A story set in Ancient Egypt by Juliet Desailly, The Book Guild, p/b £6.99 Pub 2008, ISBN: 978 1 84624 273 1 and accompanying lesson resource Ma'at's Feather: Cross-Curricular Lesson Ideas by Juliet Desailly Pub 2008, ISBN: 978 0 955668 0 4
Reviewed by Alf Wilkinson
Ma'at's Feather...
KS2 Egyptian Story & Lesson Resource
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Plymouth Branch Programme
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www.ha-plymouth.org.uk
Enquiries to Alan H. Cousins Tel. 01752 843750 a.cousins345@btinternet.com
Booking for lectures: Booking is easy - just click on the title of the lecture and it will take you to the Eventbrite page. Eventbrite tickets will be free to Members; otherwise £6 or concessions £4.
Meetings start at...
Plymouth Branch Programme
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Nuneaton Branch Programme
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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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Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £5 for visitors.
Associate membership of the branch is £20 for 2026/2027 or £30 with our monthly news bulletin, the Beckenham Historian.
All meetings take place at 7.30 p.m. in Christ Church Hall, Fairfield Road, Beckenham, BR3 3LE unless otherwise stated....
Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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Hull & East Riding Branch Programme
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The Hull and East Riding branch meets at the University Library, Hull University, Cottingham Rd, Hull HU6 7RX.
Our meetings are on the third Thursday of the month, 7.30pm until about 9 pm. Coffee and tea can be purchased in the University Library Coffee Bar before the meeting, and there...
Hull & East Riding Branch Programme
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Contact Us
Information
Normal HA office opening hours: 9.30am–5.30pm Monday–Friday
If you have a general enquiry please contact us using enquiries@history.org.uk, or if the query is in relation to membership please email membership@history.org.uk. Alternatively you can call 0300 100 0223.
Unfortuately we are unable take calls or respond to emails outside of office hours. Our target...
Contact Us
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What do we do?
Our work
There are many ways you can support our work to bring history to all:
Become a Member
Make a donation
Contribute an article
Other ways to support us
We bring together people who share an interest in, and love for the past and to further the study and teaching and enjoyment...
What do we do?
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Ealing Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Dr Philip Woods philipgwoods@outlook.com tel. 07922046578
All talks (with the exception of November meeting) start at 7.30pm on the second Tuesday of the month, and take place at Ealing Green Church, The Green, Ealing, W5 5QT. For details of transport and parking please see our website.
Talks...
Ealing Branch Programme
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Taunton Deane Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson geoff.bisson51@gmail.com tel. 01823 353749 M 07888 641 587
All talks start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and take place in the Birchall Hall, Queen's College, Trull Road, Taunton, TA1 4QS unless otherwise stated. Tea, coffee and biscuits are available for which a donation is welcome....
Taunton Deane Branch Programme
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Exeter & District Branch Programme
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For all branch enquiries please contact Dr Robert Guyver guyverrobert@gmail.com
Exeter & District Branch Programme 2026-27
Monday 9 November 2026, 5pm at Exeter School Exeter Andrews Hall EX2 4NP
Parking is available at the school if approached via Manston Terrace [on the town centre side of the junction between...
Exeter & District Branch Programme
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Essex Branch Programme
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Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church,
Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB.
Please check the calendar on this website for details.
Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed -£5
Associate Members fee £15.00 / £20.00 for 2 members at same address
For all branch enquiries please contact Tony Tuckwell: 01245 256423...
Essex Branch Programme
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Buckinghamshire Branch Programme
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Enquiries to Mrs.Terry Bloxham (Hon Secretary), 138 High Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1RB
Tel: 07952 703535 E-mail: secretarybucksha@gmail.com
Meetings are being held on Wednesdays at 8.00 pm online via Zoom (except for the June event which will be in-person)
Admission to meetings is free to full and associate members of the...
Buckinghamshire Branch Programme
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West Wiltshire Branch Programme
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Branch contact All enquiries to Mrs Jenny Ladd jladd242@gmail.com tel 01373 830514
M 07724 210 851
Venue: All talks start at 7.30pm and take place in St. Thomas’ Church Hall, York Buildings, Trowbridge, Wilts. BA14 8PT. Free parking on the road, limited free parking next to Church.
Associate membership £15...
West Wiltshire Branch Programme
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Sheffield Branch Programme
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For all branch enquiries to Michael Clarke m.s.clarke@birkdaleschool.org.uk
Meetings are held at the Lecture Theatre, Grayson Building, Birkdale School, Oakholme Road, Sheffield S10 3DH. Entrance via the Endcliffe Crescent gate. Parking available on site. Usually held the first or second Thursday of the month. Doors will open at 7pm and...
Sheffield Branch Programme
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Planning and Teaching the New Key Stage 3 PoS
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These notes, ideas and teaching suggestions have developed from CPD courses run over the last few years and from planning and developing SHP resources for the new KS3 programme.
Inevitably, it's a statement of current thinking with ideas constantly developing but I hope it proves useful and practical in helping...
Planning and Teaching the New Key Stage 3 PoS
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The Tudor Court
Classic Pamphlet
In 1976, in one of his challenging Presidential addresses to the Royal Historical Society, Professor Geoffrey Elton drew attention to the importance of the court as a ‘point of contact' between the Tudors and their subjects. It was, he suggested, a central and essential aspect of personal government, but in...
The Tudor Court
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Isle of Wight Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Jacque Gazzard email: jacquegazzard@me.com
Unless otherwise stated, meetings take place at Hunnyhill Room Riverside Centre, The Quay, Newport, PO30 2QR
Meetings start at 7.30pm and finish at approximately 9pm. Doors open at 7pm
Talks free to Associate branch members, National HA members and Students, visitors £3.
Branch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HistoricalAssociationIW
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Isle of Wight Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mrs Melissa Wright mwright@boltonschool.org.uk 07912369060
Branch Website: https://boltonhistoricalassociation.wordpress.com
X = @BoltonHistory
BlueSky = @boltonhistory.bsky.social
Facebook =Bolton Historical Association
Bolton Branch Programme 2026-27
Monday 14 September 2026
Joanna Williams, Manchester author, biographer and historian
The Great Miss Lydia Becker, Suffragist, Scientist and Trailblazer
Fifty years before women...
Bolton Branch Programme
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Shipwrecks, Clocks and Westminster Abbey: the story of John Harrison
Historian article
‘Poor England has lost so many men'
On 22 October 2007 an unlikely group of people were to be seen casting wreaths upon the sea off the Scilly Isles. They comprised a Chief Executive, a Naval Commander, a Science journalist and the Fourteenth Astronomer Royal (this writer). A clue which...
Shipwrecks, Clocks and Westminster Abbey: the story of John Harrison
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The death of Lord Londonderry
Historian article
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, better known to his contemporaries and to history as Viscount Castlereagh, committed suicide on 12 August 1822, at the age of fifty-three, when Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons. He was one of the great statesmen of his age: as Chief...
The death of Lord Londonderry
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Upwards till Lepanto
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Ottoman society centred on the Sultan. He was lawgiver, religious official, leader in battle-and until the late sixteenth century an active field commander on campaign. The Law of Fratricide of Mehmet (Mohammed) II, 1451-81, urged each new Sultan to kill his brothers in order to produce a capable ruler and...
Upwards till Lepanto
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Thinking about questions to ask a sailor who knew Christopher Columbus
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
The drama was an element in teaching a topic on Columbus with a class of 6-7 year old pupils. The Scheme of Work's title was WATER which lasted six weeks. The history element lasted...
Thinking about questions to ask a sailor who knew Christopher Columbus
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The Historian 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Protestantism and art in early modern England - Keith Thomas (Medlicott Lecture to the Historical Association at the Wallace Collection, London, 5 April 2003) (Read article)
18 To what extent was the failure of denazification in Germany 1945-48 a result of the apathy of the allies? -...
The Historian 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England
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Teaching History 112: Empire
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History including: A case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at key Stage 3, Using this map and all of your knowledge become Bismark, National Archives and the british Empire, Imperialism and the Roman Empire, History's challenge: facing the future,...
Teaching History 112: Empire
