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....

See the full conference programme Book your place now Can you hear the music or see the birds (Liver ones of course)? Then we must be in Liverpool – or at least we will be in May 2025 for the HA conference. We have brought together lots of specialist CPD...

We are saddened to hear the news that Charlotte 'Betty' Webb has passed away. Her role as a code breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War made her an essential contributor to the Allied success in the conflict. A gifted linguist and administrator, she also worked on secret...

The Historical Association started Local History Month over two decades ago to highlight and support the incredible work that is done to research, record and preserve the histories of all places. Just as people are often intentionally or unintentionally put into hierarchies of importance for historical preservation, so are places....

It is five years since large parts of the world went into lockdown as Covid-19 swept the globe. It was the first pandemic in the modern era that resulted in an international co-ordinated response. Underlying this was a 21st-century understanding of health and disease. Importantly, internationally recognised bodies and NGOs...

As part of a project to identify and write biographies of all of the Jews of the medieval Lincoln Jewry, Natasha Jenman, Luka Liu, and Josh Outhwaite have been working on records of Jewish property ownership in the city across the thirteenth century. This allows them to identify those individuals who will be...

March is Women’s History Month, so it’s time to pull out some of the great women of history. Only that is just a fragment of a not very representative picture – not least because many of the great women have already been written out of the popular narratives of history;...

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was once the largest political partnership of Europe. When Poland and Lithuania came together in the 14th century they became key to the politics and trade of goods and ideas across Europe and with Asia. The Commonwealth’s cultural, linguistic and economic influence ranged across Central and Eastern Europe...

Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades.  Why...