Coming Up

The Historical Association is an active organisation with events happening up and down the UK. The local branches all have a lively lecture programme open to both members of the association and any general member of the public wishing to come along. Formal events for Teacher CPD, professional forums and conferences are also organised by and for the HA. We have programmes and activities such as debates and conferences for school children and students. Find out what’s coming up and what’s of interest to you by exploring our events section.

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  • HA Webinar: Sickness, death and the 19th-century British Post Office

    19th March 2025

    Historians often conflate the causes of death with the causes of ill health. The two are related, but not necessarily the same. Sickness was not always fatal, and therefore to understand its history we must look beyond the causes of death to the nature and causes of ill health. This...

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  • HA Webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era

    25th February 2025

    For European states in the early modern era the Ottoman empire represented a huge trading bloc, stretching at its height from Hungary in the west to Iran in the east, from Ukraine in the north to Egypt in the south, and along the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the...

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  • Doing History at University 2025

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    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) We are pleased to be hosting a Doing History at University event for students and teachers in partnership with the University of Sheffield. The aim of the event is to...

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  • Teach Climate History free event: climate action and history teaching in Aotearoa, New Zealand

    9th January 2025

    The climate crisis demands new approaches to education. One way teachers can respond is by making different choices about what and how we teach. In this talk, Michael Harcourt and Haimana Hirini present a project from Taitā College, a secondary school in Te Awakairangi, New Zealand, that integrated mātauranga (Indigenous...

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  • Short course: Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict

    6th January 2025

    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the course terms and conditions before registering) What does the course cover? 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – a conflict that defined the twentieth century and still has...

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