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  • HA Branches in the South West

      Branch details by region
    Bath Branch 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...
    HA Branches in the South West

  • My Favourite History Place - Weimar

      Historian feature
    Neil Taylor explores the changing face and mixed fortunes of Weimar in the twentieth century. Weimar is a town to which many famous people came, but from which few then left. It is not hard to see why. The locals summarise its appeal in one sentence Weimar ist nur eine...
    My Favourite History Place - Weimar

  • 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

  • The Historian 162: Environment

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    This edition of The Historian is open-access to all (including all linked articles). For a subscription to The Historian (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality podcasts and films, free short courses and Virtual Branch talks, membership of a thriving community of history-lovers and much more, join the HA today. 4 Letters 5 Editorial (Read...
    The Historian 162: Environment

  • The Historian 158: Music

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article - open access) 6 ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing – Katharine Butler (Read article) 11 Letters 12 A history of Choral Evensong: the birth of an English tradition – Tom Coxhead (Read article) 17 Reviews  18 Building new futures by rewriting the past:...
    The Historian 158: Music

  • Oral History

      Classic Pamphlet
    The classic HA Guide to collecting oral history! Oral history is spoken history: it is the recording of people's unique memories and life stories. Over the past thrity years talking directly to the makers of history has emerged not only as one way in which historians can discover more about...
    Oral History

  • HA Conference 2021 round-up

      1st July 2021
    So, we didn’t all get to pack into a room together and chat loudly and sort through our new canvas HA bag this year, but we did still have a conference. A second year done using digital technology rather than meeting up face-to-face – and a second success. We built...
    HA Conference 2021 round-up

  • 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

  • Nineteenth Century African chiefs in Nuneaton: A local mystery uncovered

      Article
    In Nuneaton’s St. Nicolas Churchyard lies a sizeable, though not elaborate, flat gravestone. It commemorates Canon Robert Savage, Vicar of the parish 1845-71, his wife Emma and many of their children. This tombstone, like so many in our graveyards, reveals a wide range of historical information, recording significant detail about...
    Nineteenth Century African chiefs in Nuneaton: A local mystery uncovered

  • HA Awards Evening 2019

      17th July 2019
    On a hot afternoon in July key figures of the history world came together to celebrate history in all its diversity. Throughout the year, across the UK individuals with a passion for history work to educate, inform, entertain and excite those around them about the past. The Historical Association awards...
    HA Awards Evening 2019

  • Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Logbooks can be described as the diary of the headmaster. The contents can vary in interest depending on how diligent the headmaster was at recording events. Some merely record the delivery of coals, the attendance at the school or the visitors to...
    Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

  • Understanding 'change and continuity' through colours and timelines

      Teaching History article
    The small-scale research that Yosanne Vella reports in this article was driven by concern to help pupils develop ‘big picture' visions of the past and to engage effectively with the idea of change as a process rather than an event. The strategy that she adopts - asking groups of students...
    Understanding 'change and continuity' through colours and timelines

  • Take a fresh look at corporate membership

      New and improved features
    Share the benefits with your colleagues and students If you’re looking for wider support for your whole school history provision, then it might be time to consider corporate membership. Corporate membership offers a comprehensive package of support. It delivers all the benefits of individual membership plus an enhanced tier of resource and CPD access to boost the development...
    Take a fresh look at corporate membership

  • Talking to an HA Branch

      Information
    The inevitable answer is of course that branches differ in their audiences, with some having a smattering of academics, some with teachers and others largely made up with people with an interest in the subject but not professionally involved in history. That means some people will be relying on what...
    Talking to an HA Branch

  • Taking Notes at A-Level History

      Student Guides
    A-Level History is not just about taking notes - but as with any subject you study at A-Level, there are some notes to keep. Here are some general common sense reminders about keeping notes, which may seem obvious - but you would be surprised how many people don't take their...
    Taking Notes at A-Level History

  • Joan of Arc: Woman Warrior, Witch

      Branch Podcast
    In 2011 Professor Anne Curry, President of the Historical Association, gave a lecture on Joan of Arc to the Swansea Branch. This is a podcast of that lecture.
    Joan of Arc: Woman Warrior, Witch

  • Webinar on demand: Planning a Primary Platinum Jubilee

      Webinar: 70 suggestions for a whole school celebration
    This free member webinar offers lots of suggestions for a whole school celebration in primary schools from EYFS to Year 6. Find out about educational, engaging enquiry-based activities to enhance learning in EYFS, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 National Curriculum units, while having fun, marking 70 years of...
    Webinar on demand: Planning a Primary Platinum Jubilee

  • 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

  • Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr? King Charles I The Personal Rule of Charles I 1629-40 Polychronichon – interpreting the revolution of 1688 Cunning Plan King Charles II Jacobinism The Jacobites Oliver Cromwell HA Podcasts: From James to Anne
    Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England

  • Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln

      Branch Podcast
    On 26 November 2010, 4pm, at the National Waterfront Museum, the Swansea Branch Anniversary Lecture was delivered by Kenneth O Morgan (Baron Morgan of Aberdyfi in the County of Gwynedd) on ‘Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln'.
    Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln

  • History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021

      HA branch history
    This article is based on a talk originally given after the 2003 Branch AGM which drew on branch records subsequently deposited with the County Archives. These comprise AGM and committee minutes as well as notes on, and some details of, speakers for each meeting from the 1928-9 season to 1957,...
    History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021

  • Bringing the Civil War to life in Somerset

      Primary History article
    As a lecturer in education teaching humanities at Plymouth University, I spend my time encouraging student teachers to move away from writing lesson plans with a focus on research and recording, to creating lessons that are dynamic – engaging children in historical activities to develop a passion for history. Student...
    Bringing the Civil War to life in Somerset

  • Ealing Branch Programme

      Article
    Branch contact: All enquiries to Dr Philip Woods philipgwoods@outlook.com tel. 07922046578 Venue: 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...
    Ealing Branch Programme

  • Film: Veteran Mervyn Kersh Talks about his experience of World War II

      An HA film to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day
    Mervyn Kersh was a young man from South London whose army service included arriving into Normandy in the first few days of the invasion, crossing the Rhine and being a British Jewish serviceman in Germany when the war ended. In this film released to commemorate VE Day Mervyn describes his...
    Film: Veteran Mervyn Kersh Talks about his experience of World War II

  • Recorded webinar: The Great Fire of London

      Boosting subject knowledge at Key Stage 1 webinar series
    Capture the sights and sounds of the insanitary and overcrowded capital city of Stuart England in 1666 with Andrew Wrenn. Compare how city fires were fought in London then and today, learn why the Great Fire spread so quickly from Pudding Lane, hear how Samuel Pepys the diarist witnessed events...
    Recorded webinar: The Great Fire of London