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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 9
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
4 From the Chairman
5 Hymn Writer Supreme - Dr R. Brinley Jones
6 Venice, the Biennale and Wales - Dr John Law
7 18th Century Underwear - Jean Webber
9 Whigs and wigs
12 Howell Harris - David James
15 Branch news
16 British Government's...
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 9
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Oxford Branch Programme
Article
Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £2 per meeting. Associate membership of the branch is £10.00, couple at the same address £15.00, full-time students under 30 £6.00. Schools wishing to bring groups of students to meetings will be asked to pay £10 for the group....
Oxford Branch Programme
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West Surrey Branch Programme
Article
Branch contact All enquiries to Mr Rollo Crookshank crookshankrollo@gmail.com tel 01252 319881
Venue: All talks start at 7.30pm and take place St Nicolas’ Hall, Bury Street, Guildford, GU2 4AW. The nearest car park is Portsmouth Road Car Park (GU2 4BW).
Associate membership £15 per year. Talks free to national HA...
West Surrey Branch Programme
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Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011
Branch History
Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011In 1964 some members of the historical Association, mostly from the West London branch, met at Maria Grey Training College in Isleworth to set up a new branch for the Richmond & Twickenham area. A Provisional Committee was formed with George Bartle, a college lecturer, as...
Richmond & Twickenham Branch History 1964-2011
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Cambridge Branch Programme
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Cambridge Branch Programme 2023-24
Enquiries to Branch Secretary Mr Bene’t Steinberg benet1@hotmail.co.uk
History Days are free for members, £8 for visitors.
History book club is free for all.
Online Book Club events start at 6.00 pm. Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87016549890?pwd=ZjlCYTNZYTlQNGZFa1dHdFdJVGtnQT09
Meeting ID: 870 1654 9890 Passcode: 459246
Please note that there is...
Cambridge Branch Programme
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Hertfordshire Branch Programme
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Hertfordshire Branch Programme 2023-24
Meetings are held at the Backhouse Room, 116 Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL8 6SZ at 3.00pm Saturday October 14th, 2023 The East German revolution of 1989 Dr Gareth Dale, Brunel University Saturday November 11th, 2023 Oliver Cromwell: hero or villain? Dr David Smith, Selwyn...
Hertfordshire Branch Programme
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Ealing Branch Programme
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Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT at 7.30pm, with the exception of the October meeting which takes place at Twyford School at 6.30pm
Members (£15 annual fee) and Visitors (£5 per talk) Students free.
Bookings for meetings are via...
Ealing Branch Programme
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Gloucestershire Branch Programme
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Gloucestershire Branch Programme 2023-24
Contact details – Janet Graham at histassocglos@gmail.com or Robert Sutton on 01242 574889
Members and students - free entry to all talks. Visitors for in-person or Zoom talks - £4 charge.
Venues for most talks are the University of Gloucestershire either in Cheltenham or Gloucester. Directions...
Gloucestershire Branch Programme
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70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch
1st July 2020
In June 2020 the HA Isle of Wight branch celebrated its 70th birthday. Here, Honorary Secretary of the branch Terry Blunden looks back at the history and development of the branch since 1950.
Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906 sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on...
70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch
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American Liberalism: The Career of a Concept
Podcast
Jonathan Bell: Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at the University of Reading.What historians have come to term ‘liberalism' in an American context has taken on numerous meanings that provide a lens through which to examine broad trends in US history across the twentieth century. From the...
American Liberalism: The Career of a Concept
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 14
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
4 Ticker Tape
5 Tareni Colliery - Clive Reed
8 Sir John Williams, Surgeon - Brinley Jones
10 Watkins, the Great Inventor - Ian Smith
12 The Guillotine - Stephanie Brown
14 Photography and Historians - John Smith
17 Opening of Glen Vivien 2016 - John...
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 14
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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
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100 not out: the Nuneaton branch centenary
HA News
For the 2018–19 season, the Nuneaton Branch of the HA is celebrating its centenary. Founded in 1919, by 1921 there were 78 members. In 1924, members went on a ‘charabanc’ tour of Leicestershire churches, ending at Fenny Drayton, where they joined in the celebrations for the tercentenary of the birth...
100 not out: the Nuneaton branch centenary
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Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme
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Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £2.00 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £14.00 per year.
All lectures start at 8pm and will take place at the Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant Road TW9 unless otherwise stated.
For all branch enquiries please contact Richard Turk on 07958...
Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme
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Women in Late Medieval Bristol
Classic Pamphlet
During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Bristol was one of England's greatest towns, with a population of perhaps 100,000 after the Black Death of 1348. Its status was recognised in 1373, with its creation as the realm's first provincial urban county, but only in 1542, with the creation of the...
Women in Late Medieval Bristol
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Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole Branch Programme
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Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole
Branch Programme 2023-24
There is an admission charge of £5. 00p for non- HA members and £3.00p for students at Monday lectures. Associate membership of the branch is £20 per year. Monday evening lectures take place at 7.25 pm at the West Cliff Hotel, Durley Chine Rd...
Bournemouth, Christchurch, & Poole Branch Programme
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Nuneaton Branch Programme
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Nuneaton Branch Programme 2023-24
Contact: michael.arnold@cantab.net
Venue: Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre, 4 Avenue Road, Nuneaton CV11 4LU
Time: 7.30pm unless otherwise indicated
Thursday 14 September 2023
The Church in a Hillfort
Peter Liddle MBE, Formerly Leicestershire County Archaeologist
Thursday 26 October 2023
Colonialism: An Assessment
Professor Nigel Biggar,...
Nuneaton Branch Programme
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Swansea Branch Programme
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Swansea Branch Programme 2023-24
Branch Contact: Liz McSloy, Secretary historyliz1565@yahoo.com
Venue: National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
All talks take place on the third Saturday of each month (unless otherwise stated) and start at 11am
Associate membership: £10 per year, Concessionary (part time workers, retired, unwaged) and Student membership: £5 per year,...
Swansea Branch Programme
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Exeter & District Branch Programme
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Exeter & District Branch Programme 2023-24
Branch Secretary: Dr Robert Guyver, tel 01392 491 898, email guyverrobert@gmail.com
Tuesday 14 November 2023 4.15 p.m.
Event in association with Exeter School
Exeter School, Exeter, Andrews Hall 4.15 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Claire McCallum, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Russian History, College of...
Exeter & District Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch Programme
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Bolton Branch Programme 2023-24
Bolton Branch warmly welcomes everyone to join us for the upcoming lecture series
Branch contact All enquiries to Mrs Melissa Wright mwright@boltonschool.org.uk 07912369060
Venue: All talks start at 6.30pm on (mostly) the first Monday of the month, and take place in the Leverhulme...
Bolton Branch Programme
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Podcast: Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: some thoughts on the use and abuse of history
Bolton Branch Lecture Podcast by Charles Esdaile
This podcast was recorded by the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on Monday 1 February 2010, at the Parish Hall in Bolton.
We were pleased to welcome Professor Charles Esdaile of the University of Liverpool back to the branch to speak on ‘Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: Some Thoughts...
Podcast: Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: some thoughts on the use and abuse of history
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Nottingham Branch History
Article
A major feature of the Historical Association's branches has been their strong links with a variety of voluntary organisations focused on, or with interests in, history. The Association's initial aims drawn up in June 1906 included 'Co-operation for common objects with the English Association, the Geographical Association, the Modern Language...
Nottingham Branch History
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Ferninando Gorges and New England
Classic Pamphlet
Sir Ferdinando Gorges (July 1565 - May 24, 1647), by some considered the "Father of English Colonization in North America", was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622, although Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges was born...
Ferninando Gorges and New England
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City of Lincoln Branch Programme
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City of Lincoln Branch Programme 2023-24
Branch contact: All enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk
Venue: unless otherwise stated, all talks start at 6.15pm, and will take place on the University of Lincoln’s Brayford Pool campus.
Branch membership: £20 per year. Talks free to national HA members, students, teachers and...
City of Lincoln Branch Programme
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 7
Branch Publication
This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorA Deeper Unrest, Richard NyeA Great War Swansea Pot Pourri, Bernard LewisThe Crimson Shadow of Mametz Wood, Giles ReesGeorge Arthur EvansHedd WynAs it Looked to Me; France and Belgium 1917, John LawThere Were Hundreds of Us in the Queue Trying to Enlist,...
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 7