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  • My Favourite History Place: David Pearse explores St Petersburg

      Historian feature
    If you want to understand Russian history from Peter the Great up to at least the 1917 Revolutions, you have to visit St Petersburg. Like Versailles, St Petersburg was built for an absolute monarch, on an unsuitable site, at the cost of many labourers' lives. Unlike Versailles, it was designed...
    My Favourite History Place: David Pearse explores St Petersburg

  • Cavour and Italian Unification

      Classic Pamphlet
    It may seem a little perverse to write a pamphlet on Cavour in 1972, the centenary year of the death of Mazzini, but no doubt there will be more than one publication on Mazzini to mark the occasion. To pretend that the two men had much in common would be...
    Cavour and Italian Unification

  • Jacobitism

      Classic Pamphlet
    In recent years, the debate over the nature, extent, and influence of the Jacobite movement during the 70 years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 has become one of the new growth industries among professional historians, spawning scholarly quarrels almost as ferocious as those which characterised ‘the Cause' itself.The term...
    Jacobitism

  • History's big picture in three dimensions

      Historian article
    More and more historians, from diverse political viewpoints, are now expressing concern at the fragmentation of history, especially in the schools curriculum. The fragmentation of the subject has followed upon the collapse of sundry Grand Narratives, such as the ‘March of Progress', which once swept all of history into a...
    History's big picture in three dimensions

  • The Historian 81: Maida Vale and the battle of Maida

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 Radiating the Revolution: Agitation in the Russian Civil War 1917-21 - Richard Taylor (Read article) 12 Look Back – But Not in Anger? A Manchester Boyhood - Donald Read (Read article) 17 Pressure and Persuasion Canadian agents and Scottish emigration, c. 1870 – c. 1930 - Marjory Harper...
    The Historian 81: Maida Vale and the battle of Maida

  • Poetry of the Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands c.1730-1800

      Historian article
    There is a view that the poetry of the eighteenth century began with moralising neo-classical satire, that this was followed by insipid pastoral, and that the century closed with the advent of the Romantic. This view is simplistic. While at particular times particular types of poetry might have predominated (and...
    Poetry of the Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands c.1730-1800

  • Radiating the Revolution: Agitation in the Russian Civil War 1917-21

      Article
    When the Bolsheviks seized power in what was essentially a carefully organised coup d’état in October 1917, they seized control only of the levers of central power in the then capital, Petrograd, which had already become the centre of working-class discontent. What they most emphatically did not do was to...
    Radiating the Revolution: Agitation in the Russian Civil War 1917-21

  • The Historian 21

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Sick people, health and doctors in Georgian England - Roy Porter 7 Portfolio: The life and death of Colonel Blimp - Kevin Jefferys 10 Update: The French Revolution - Norman Hampson 24 Education Forum: Pushing for the past - Nicholas Reeves
    The Historian 21

  • Teaching History 165: Conceptualising breadth

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 ‘Victims of History’: challenging students’ perceptions of women in history - Bridget Lockyer and Abigail Tazzyman (Read article) 16 ‘It’s like Lord of the Rings, Sir. But real!’: Teaching, learning and sharing medieval history for all Chris Eldridge (Read article)...
    Teaching History 165: Conceptualising breadth

  • Out and About: on the trail of the Pentrich Rebellion

      Historian feature
    Richard Gaunt introduces us to a revolutionary incident in mid-Derbyshire whose 200th anniversary is commemorated this year.
    Out and About: on the trail of the Pentrich Rebellion

  • Robespierre: a reluctant terrorist?

      Article
    After a revolution to remove the monarchy did the French revolutionaries create another leadership of power over ideals? William Doyle re-evaluates the reputation of the so-called architect of terror during the French Revolutionary years. Two recent books reflect a seemingly endless fascination with the man whose downfall brought the end...
    Robespierre: a reluctant terrorist?

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Chinese history?

      Teaching History feature
    Teaching Chinese history in the UK runs up against some immediate obstacles. It lacks the familiar staging posts of European history: Chairman Mao is among the few well-known names, and terms such as Cultural Revolution and Opium War may attract recognition, but are often not understood in detail. The situation...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Chinese history?

  • HA News, Autumn 2025

      Welcome to the autumn 2025 edition of HA News magazine
    Welcome to this packed autumn edition of HA News. Alexandra Walsham unpacks the challenges, dilemmas and opportunities of AI in her President's Letter; and Abdul Mohamud lets us in on what got him into history. We have reports on this year's awards evening and our annual conference, along with competition updates and winners. We also remember much-missed...
    HA News, Autumn 2025

  • Real Lives: The Reverend John Chilembwe

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: The Reverend John Chilembwe

  • The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The arrival of sources of evidence into secondary school history classrooms amounted to a small revolution. What began as a radical development is now establishment orthodoxy, with both GCSE and now National Curriculum in England...
    The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

  • After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain

      Historian article
    Much has been written during the last 50 years about the events leading up to and during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Less consideration has been given to the students who arrived in Britain as refugees. During the weeks following the Soviet intervention in Hungary around 25,000 people were killed...
    After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain

  • Film: Power and Protest in England – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 7, Professor Carl Griffin (University of Sussex) discusses the changing landscape of England as enclosure accelerates, transforming the social dynamics of the countryside as peasants become wage labourers and their rights to use the ‘common land’ is diminished. Professor Griffin reflects on this period of protest over enclosure,...
    Film: Power and Protest in England – 1714 to 1785

  • Scheme of Work: Comparing Ancient Civilisations

      Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    What do all the Ancient Civilisations have in common? This enquiry provides an overview of the Ancient Civilisations of Egypt, Sumer, Indus Valley and Shang, showing where and when they developed, the similarities between them and how they relate to a broadly based chronological understanding of the past. It provides a...
    Scheme of Work: Comparing Ancient Civilisations

  • Film: Brezhnev's early life and career

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film Dr Edwin Bacon takes us through Brezhnev’s early life and career: his birth in Ukraine in 1906, the opportunities brought by the revolution, his role in the battle of Ukraine and his eventual arrival to the Politburo at the end of the 1950s. Dr Bacon looks at...
    Film: Brezhnev's early life and career

  • Recorded Webinar: Understanding Lenin’s Government, 1917-24

      Article
    In this webinar Dr Douds examines the nature of political authority in the nascent Soviet Republic and the institutional structures, practices and ideology of government in the Lenin period. She considers how Communist Party dictatorship and the monolithic party-state emerged in the early years following the October Revolution of 1917...
    Recorded Webinar: Understanding Lenin’s Government, 1917-24

  • Out and About: exploring Lancaster’s ‘glocal’ history online and on foot

      Historian feature
    The city of Lancaster has many important historical landmarks from both the medieval period and the time of the Industrial Revolution. In this article Sunita Abraham and Christopher Donaldson describe the thinking behind a guided historical tour they have devised for the city. This involves engaging with modern technology, placing Lancaster within a...
    Out and About: exploring Lancaster’s ‘glocal’ history online and on foot

  • Power, Protest and Music in the United States

      A History of the United States
    In this podcast Professor Brian Ward of Northumbria University discusses the role and significance of music in the American Civil Rights movement.
    Power, Protest and Music in the United States

  • The Historian 18

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Glorious Revolution in England after 300 years, K.H.D. Haley 10 Education Forum: History in Adult Education 11 Record Linkage: Among My Souvenirs, Roger Whiting 14 Update: Spain: the centuries of greatness and decline, I.A.A. Thompson 17 Portfolio: Alice in the Middle Ages, Patrick Abbott
    The Historian 18

  • The Historian 20

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, C N.L Brooke 10 Update: The Industrial Revolution, John J. Mason 13 Local History: Laxton: England's Last Open Field Village, John Beckett 17 Education Forum: The School History Question, Roger Hennessey
    The Historian 20

  • The Historian 24

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Napoleon and the French Revolution, Irvne Collins 10 Update: The Causes of the Second World War, Michael Dockrill 13 Education Forum: Time for Change at 'A' Level, John Fines 14 Museums: Working From Museums, Gail Durbin 18 Portfolio: Medieval Emperors and the English Kings, Dorothy Meade
    The Historian 24