The HA are delighted to announce that the Medlicott Medal for 2015 has been awarded to Professor Margaret MacMillan. Margaret MacMillan is currently Warden of St Antony's College Oxford. Her work on twentieth-century history, particularly the history of the First World War, has received international recognition. Her recent book, The...

27 January 2015 is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration and Death camp in occupied Poland. The camp was a large industrialised centre for the exploitation and murder of the Jews of Europe. It was also a murder site for the Roma and Sinti (Gypsies)...

History E-Readers provide a brief introduction and overview of current research on a variety of topics and provide a handy reading list for those who want to delve further into the subjects. Current titles are available as E-books for your Kindle or other e-book devices from Amazon. Current Titles include:...

An au revoir but not goodbye from outgoing HA President Professor Jackie Eales Jackie Eales has been an enthusiastic President for the last three years who has been very happy to visit many of the branches to give lectures and to assist in key HA events. Jackie's lectures at the...

G.D. (David) Clayton - Bolton Branch President It is with great sorrow that the Bolton Branch marks the passing of its President, David Clayton, who died on 29 August 2014 following a prolonged period of ill-health. David was awarded an Open Scholarship to study modern history at Merton College, Oxford,...

From the 28 June 1914 till the end of July 1914 the world held its breath; would Europe be thrown into war? We now know that the answer was yes.Diplomacy had failed, some would say it never really stood a chance, others will argue that nothing was inevitable until the...

This year the Historical Association's Medlicott medal for services to history went to Professor Sir Richard Evans. Richard Evans is the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has written numerous highly respected and internationally best-selling books. Evans is bests known for his works on...

On 17th July 1964, Sir Donald Campbell fired up the Proteus turbo-prop engine of 'Bluebird' and set off onto the salt flats of Lake Eyre in Australia, in an attempt to break the World Land Speed Record. Conditions were not perfect and the surface was damp but Campbell was undaunted.On...

Short talk given on 2nd June, 2014 to the Irish Federation of Local History Societies. Speaker: Marie Davidson, assisted by Richard Binns with drawings As Secretary of the Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch of the Historical Association may I thank Mr Breen for inviting me to speak to you...

On Saturday 28th of June it will be 100 years since the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated with his wife Sophie in Sarajevo. As everyone knows or will know after this summer that assassination led to the start of the First World War.The young man who fired the shot Gavrilo...