Your membership magazine

Welcome to this packed spring edition of HA News.

Take a look at the programme for our Annual Conference in May, including the first keynote by our new President Professor Alexandra Walsham and this year’s Dawson Lecture recipient Dr Penelope Harnett, who is featured in these pages.

We are also pleased to announce that this year's Medlicott Medal will be awarded to the esteemed historian Professor Catherine Hall, whom we caught up with for a conversation. 

Also in this edition are the results of last year's membership survey, as well as how we are responding to the survey outcomes.

Information about all of our upcoming events is also featured throughout this magazine, including ongoing courses, talks and programmes as well as new initiatives.

Thank you to the students who have supplied their stories for our ‘local and community history’ feature, ahead of Local and Community History Month in May.

We hope you will enjoy this edition. If you have any ideas for future HA activities or articles you would like to contribute to HA News, we'd love to hear from you on enquiries@history.org.uk.