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  • Origins of the European financial markets

      Transcribed podcast lecture
    This article is transcribed from a 2015 podcast given by Dr Anne Murphy of the University of Hertfordshire. In it Dr Murphy looks at the early origins of the European financial markets from the Italian Renaissance to the present day, as well as providing a useful introduction to finance, the stock market and the bond market....
    Origins of the European financial markets
  • Sudan Holy Mountain: Jebel Barkal and its Temples

      Guide Book
    This guide book was produced by Timothy Kendall and El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed (Co-Directors NCAM Archaeological Mission at Jebel Barkal) and has been published on our website by their kind permission (© 2022 Timothy Kendall and El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed) to support our podcast that examines the history of Ancient Nubia and the Kushite...
    Sudan Holy Mountain: Jebel Barkal and its Temples
  • 60th anniversary of JFK's assassination

      1st November 2023
    If my generation all remember where they were when the aeroplanes, hijacked by terrorists, flew into the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001, then my parents' generation all knew where they were when they heard about the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Before the conspiracy theorists and the...
    60th anniversary of JFK's assassination
  • Richmond Branch Inter-School Historical Balloon Debate Podcasts

      Branch Podcast
    Richmond Branch held a series of inter-school historical balloon debates at Putney High School on Thursday 15th March 2012.We podcasted the Under 18 debate and have made the excellent and entertaining presentations available to you here.Each school team were asked represent their character over 4 minutes to convince the judges...
    Richmond Branch Inter-School Historical Balloon Debate Podcasts
  • Exclusive webinar offer with corporate membership

      Built-in CPD for school members
    We work hard to develop our offer in response to teachers' changing needs and recent months have seen several developments to our CPD provision. In our membership surveys you told us that you wanted more built-in free CPD for members, in 2021 we introduced a new corporate webinar offer which allows corporate school members...
    Exclusive webinar offer with corporate membership
  • The Medlicott Medal

      HA Awards
    Our annual award the Medlicott Medal is awarded to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history. The Medlicott winner is notified in advance of their win so that they can give a talk. The Historical Association's annual event is becoming a must for local, educational and academic historians....
    The Medlicott Medal
  • Podcast: Medlicott Lecture 2018 - Justin Champion

      Defacing the Past or Resisting Oppression?
    Podcast: Medlicott Lecture 2018 - Justin Champion
  • Pride: 50 years

      1st July 2022
    1 July is the 50th anniversary of the first Pride March in the UK, in 1972. Pride was chosen to be the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Starting life as a small event, Pride is now an annual part of the London calendar and...
    Pride: 50 years
  • Podcast Series: Pearson Edexcel Migrants in Britain

      Multipage Article
    The Pearson Edexcel thematic study Migrants in Britain, c800-present, gives students an overview of how Britain has been shaped by its migrant communities over a long period of time. At its heart, the Migrants in Britain study is the story of changes in the nation’s context that encouraged, enabled, necessitated...
    Podcast Series: Pearson Edexcel Migrants in Britain
  • 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
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals

      Article
    The religious wars of the Crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Shylock's Venice

      The remarkable history of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
    This is the story of the Venice Ghetto, the corner of the city where Jews were exiled; free to walk the streets by day, locked behind gates and walls at night. Yet, gates and walls notwithstanding, from its establishment in 1516 until the fall of Venice in 1798, the ghetto...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Shylock's Venice
  • Podcast Series: The French Revolution to the Fall of Napoleon

      The French Revolution
    In this set of podcasts we look at the origins and the development of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo. These podcasts feature: Professor David Andress, Emeritus Professor Malcom Crook, Emertius Professor William Doyle, Emeritus Professor Alan Forrest &...
    Podcast Series: The French Revolution to the Fall of Napoleon
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars

      Article
    In this talk, Steve Tibble discusses the Assassins and Templars, two of history's most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction showing how they survived...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars
  • Virtual Branch recording: Tudor Liveliness?

      Discovering Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England
    In Tudor England, artworks were often described as ‘lively’. What did this mean in a culture where naturalism was an alien concept? And in a time of religious upheaval, when the misuse of images might lure the soul to hell, how could liveliness be a good thing? In this talk...
    Virtual Branch recording: Tudor Liveliness?
  • 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
  • Podcast series: Politics in England Through Time

      Politics in England through Time
    In this set of podcasts we look at how power and politics have changed in England from the Iron Age to the twentieth century.
    Podcast series: Politics in England Through Time
  • Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time

      Religion through Time
    This set of podcasts looks at religion in England from the ancient to the modern world and features: Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol, Professor Joanna Story of the University of Leicester, Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, Dr Steven Gunn of the University of...
    Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time
  • Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley

      Article
    The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizabeth I,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley
  • Warfare - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Warfare
    Warfare - GCSE
  • Virtual Branch recording: Empires of the Normans

      Virtual Branch Film
    How did descendants of Viking marauders come to dominate Western Europe and the Mediterranean, from the British Isles to North Africa, and Lisbon to the Holy Land and the Middle East? In this Virtual Branch talk Levi Roach, author of Empires of the Normans, tells a tale of ambitious adventures...
    Virtual Branch recording: Empires of the Normans
  • Podcast: Ancient Greece & Rome - Similarities and Differences

      Ancient Greece & Rome
    In this podcast Dr Ursula Rothe & Dr Colin Andrews of the Open University discuss how social, moral and religious life in Rome differed from that of ancient Greece.
    Podcast: Ancient Greece & Rome - Similarities and Differences
  • Podcast Series: Ancient Greek Myths and Legends

      Multipage Article
    In this podcast Dr Fiona Hobden of the University of Liverpool looks at what Greek myths and legends can tell us about how the early ancient Greeks saw their world.
    Podcast Series: Ancient Greek Myths and Legends
  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy

      Article
    In 1135 Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods in English history. On the one side is Empress Matilda. On the other side is her cousin,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy
  • Podcast: Latin Poets and their Role in Roman Society

      The Latin Poets
    In this podcast Dr Joanna Paul & Dr Paula James of the Open University discuss the role and significance of the Latin Poets in Roman society.
    Podcast: Latin Poets and their Role in Roman Society