Events

Our 45 branches across the country each put on around 10 lectures a year, on all aspects and periods of history. To find out what’s going on at a branch near you see our Branch programmes pages, or you can view all Branch events in our calendar.

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  • Your HA Virtual Branch

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    The HA Virtual Branch is a great way to keep your history up-to-date, whether you are working or relaxing, all from the comfort of your home. The Virtual Branch is free and open to everybody, and recordings of the talks are made available online after the event for HA members....

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  • Historian events calendar - Spring 2025

    27th March 2024

    One of the HA’s aims is to bring you accessible and enjoyable history wherever you are based and whatever amount of time you have to dedicate to it. That's why we work to put together a regular programme of events with a variety of formats and delivery. You might prefer the social element of...

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  • HA Webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond

    7th July 2025

    Between 1917 and 1947, women in the Indian subcontinent were engaged in active debates and noteworthy demonstrations for the vote, building up a national suffrage movement. In this talk Professor Sumita Mukherjee will discuss the activities of Indian suffragettes in this period, showing how they were connected with British and...

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  • Virtual branch: An Aspect of the Monastic World

    20th May 2025

    In his recent book The Monastic World, Andrew Jotischky looks at the late Roman Empire onwards where monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. He asks who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and maintained them? And how did monasticism change over the thousand years or...

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  • HA Webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom

    28th April 2025

    This webinar examines the era of ‘post-emancipation’ in the Caribbean from around the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the notion of ‘emancipation’ and asks what kind of ‘freedom’ did abolition bring to the formerly enslaved? How did colonial states and other authorities seek to regulate the lives of...

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  • Virtual branch: Women and the Reformations Around the World

    28th April 2025

    The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around...

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  • Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley

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    The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizabeth I,...

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