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  • Northampton Branch Programme

      Article
    Northampton Branch Programme 2023-24 Branch contact:  All enquiries to Mr David Waller david@davidwaller.org.uk  tel 07855 898834 Venue:  Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings will be online at 7 p.m. (details available via Eventbrite registration). Branch website:  https://historyatnorthampton.com/2023/08/08/northampton-historical-association-programme-2023-24/   Thursday 19 October 2023 Banners in British Left-Wing Politics since 1800 Kerry Love,...
    Northampton Branch Programme

  • Gloucestershire Branch Programme

      Article
    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

  • Nuneaton Branch History

      Branch History
    The  Nuneaton Branch of the H.A. was originally founded in November 1919 as one part of a county wide Warwickshire branch.  Instrumental in this was the editor of the Nuneaton Chronicle, Albert Francis Cross, assisted by local doctor turned local historian, Edward Nason. After this arrangement ended Nuneaton was re-founded...
    Nuneaton Branch History

  • Bristol and the Slave Trade

      Classic Pamphlet
    Captain Thomas Wyndham of Marshfield Park in Somerset was on voyage to Barbary where he sailed from Kingroad, near Bristol, with three ships full of goods and slaves thus beginning the association of African Trade and Bristol. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Bristol was not a place of...
    Bristol and the Slave Trade

  • Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History

      Branch History
    The Branch is proud of its role in the foundation of the Historical Association in 1906.  Professor Thomas Frederick Tout and others at Manchester University had been discussing the idea of forming an Association to promote the teaching of a more relevant and vibrant form of history than was currently...
    Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History

  • Cambridge Branch Programme

      Article
    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

  • Portsmouth Branch History

      Branch History
    See the current Portsmouth Branch programme of events Portsmouth's Branch "Minutes Book No. 2" of the years 1946 -1981 is in the city Record Office. It records a Jubilee Dinner held in 1974: so the Branch was founded in 1924. Sadly, no "Minutes Book No. 1" has come to light....
    Portsmouth Branch History

  • Canterbury Branch Programme

      Article
    Canterbury Branch Programme 2023-24   Enquiries to Mr Mike Gallagher tel: 01227 722476 or email: hacanterburybranch@gmail.com Talks are open to the public and are free to HA members, branch members and students; others are asked to pay £3 towards expenses. Branch membership is £10 per year.    Thursday 14th September...
    Canterbury Branch Programme

  • 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

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 6

      Branch Publication
    This edition features articles on the following:Margaret McCloy - Letter from the EditorAndrew Green - Wales Coast PathCopper Ore Barques SponsorsMark Williams - The Falkland IslandsTrevor Fishlock - AfghanistanEna Niedergang - Griffith John and WuhanRobert Leonard - Peripatetic PottersJohn Ashley - Ethiopian TravelsSid Kidwell - Edgar EvansDr Fred Cowley -...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 6

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 4

      Branch Publication
    This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorNineteenth Century FactsThe Cry for Meaning, Richard NyeThe Nineteenth CenturyThe Merthyr Rising, Steffan ap-DaffydPembrokeshire Slate in the 19th Century, Alan John RichardsAnn of Swansea, Caroline FranklinBook Review, Neath Antiquarian Volume 2Stalin, Hitler and Mr JonesLetter and Book ReviewRobert Burns 1759 - 1796,...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 4

  • Show and Tell: three Branch book events

      Historian article
    When members of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Branch were invited to share their views on ‘Books that Changed History’, not all the contributions were as overtly revolutionary as Thomas Paine’s Common Sense nor as familiar as the King James Bible. Marie Davidson and Richard Binns tell us more....
    Show and Tell: three Branch book events

  • Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

      Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
    In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
    Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

  • 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

  • Exeter Branch History

      Branch History
    A Brief History of the Exeter BranchExeter was one of the seventeen pre-First World War branches, founded in November 1906, the same year as the Historical Association itself. The Exeter branch was founded by Professor Walter (W.J.) Harte who became President of the (national) Historical Association 1932-36. Harte was appointed...
    Exeter Branch History

  • Bristol and America 1480-1631

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet addresses the relationship between Bristol and America, charting the rising and waning interest the city and its merchants had in discovering new lands and profiting from them, and the success or more often the failure of these voyages. It provides an interesting argument which may be seen to...
    Bristol and America 1480-1631

  • War, Society and the State in Early Modern Europe

      Podcast
    Lecture from the 2012 HA Annual Conference  Frank Tallett: Fellow in History at the University of Reading and former Head of its School of Humanities Until recently, military history has largely been concerned with ‘badges and buttons', an approach that stressed tactics, strategy and weapons. The so-called New Military History has sought...
    War, Society and the State in Early Modern Europe

  • Lincolnshire Branch History

      Branch History
    Brief History of the Lincolnshire Branch.When  the branch was founded There was a successful branch of the Historical Association in Lincolnshire after World War Two, centred in Boston, and run by staff from the schools there. In 1999, when I moved to Lincolnshire, I discovered there was no longer a...
    Lincolnshire Branch History

  • Reading Branch History

      Branch History
    Brief outline history of the Reading Branch of the Historical AssociationReading 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 Branch,...
    Reading Branch History

  • Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History

      Branch History
    History of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch of the Historical AssociationThe Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole branch of the HA was founded in December 1922 and has been in existence ever since. Its history can be followed in the annual reports sent to HQ, in the complete set of committee...
    Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History

  • Historical Causation: Is One Thing More Important Than Another?

      Branch Lecture Podcast
    WHAT COLOUR ARE THE UNICORNS?Professor Steve Rigby, recently retired from the University of Manchester, delivered ‘Historical Causation: Is One Thing More Important Than Another?' to the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on 29th November 2010.  His lecture gives a fascinating introduction to the philosophy of historical causation, looking at...
    Historical Causation: Is One Thing More Important Than Another?

  • Bolton Branch Birthday

      Bolton Branch News
    Renowned historian Professor Sir Ian Kershaw joined the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on 1 October 2007 to help celebrate their 80th anniversary. An audience of 185 people listened to his lecture on ‘The German People and the Persecution of the Jews', which examined the attitudes of the German...
    Bolton Branch Birthday

  • Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

      Churchill's Great Game
    In this HA Virtual Branch talk Professor Richard Toye explores Churchill’s response to the USSR and how his actions during the early Cold War years intersected with his views of traditional Anglo-Russian tensions and the legacy of the ‘Great Game’. Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University...
    Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

  • Film: Foreign Intervention in the Cold War

      Branch Lecture: Nuneaton Branch
    This filmed Branch Lecture entitled "Foreign Intervention in the Cold War" features Dr Volker Prott of Aston University. In his talk, Dr Prott, looks at three international crises of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Congo Crisis, the Kashmir dispute and the Indo Pakistan conflict over East Pakistan/Bangladesh. Dr Prott examines when, why and...
    Film: Foreign Intervention in the Cold War

  • Leicester Branch Programme

      Article
    Chair: Annabelle Larsen leicesterha@gmail.com   All talks will be online 18.00-19.30. The heat of the Great Debate and the AGM will be held in person at DMU.     12th September 2023- Natasha Stoyce, 'Leslie Joy Whitehead: Canada's forgotten female soldier of the First World War'.    10th October 2023- Dr Lubaaba...
    Leicester Branch Programme