The Historical Association shares in the global reflection at the passing of Nelson Mandela.Whilst history will remember many events and individuals for all manner of things and deeds, only a few individuals can stand above the historical record and be said to have guided it. Mandela's influence as a leader,...

The Historic UK website has provided a valuable on-line history resource since the year 2000.Their latest venture Destination UK, sets out to integrate their current coverage of Castles, Battlefields, Anglo-Saxon and Roman sites, to provide an interactive map of historic destinations for each county of England, and region of Scotland and Wales.They aim...

Barry Coward was a well regarded academic in his field of seventeenth century British history and President of the HA from 2005 - 2008. For more than forty years he taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, so it is fitting that Birkbeck are the recipients of £1000 from the...

The Great Parchment Book of The Honourable The Irish Society is a major survey, compiled in 1639 by a Commission instituted under the Great Seal by Charles I, of all those estates in Derry managed by the City of London through the Irish Society and the City of London livery...

The judges met on 27th June 2013 to discuss the entries they had all previously read. These entries were all very good and came from a range of periods - Tudor and Stuart England, the sixteenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries and covered such diverse topics as smuggling, the Reformation, revolution...

The Vice-President of the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association has received a national award for services to history. Dr Glyn Redworth has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association and was presented with his award by Association President, Professor Jackie Eales, at a ceremony in London. Fellowships are awarded...

On the evening of 18 June 2013 Professor Cannadine received the Medlicott medal an annual award given by the Historical Association to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history. Professor Cannadine is a well-known and influential historian, currently based in the UK and The USA. The Medlicott medal...

On June 18 2013 David Cannadine will formally receive the Historical Association's Medlicott Medal for Services to History. In anticipation of the evening awards event that will culminate in a lecture by Professor Cannadine, we met with the great man to reflect on his award and his career. During the...

The Historical Association is again proud to support the work of Archives and Archivists by presenting its award for Best Dissertation 2012. The winner is Ronan Deazley: 'The Yeti in the Archive: Copyright, Risk and Reform,' from the University of Glasgow. The judges said ' This is a hot topic that...

On the morning of Thursday 9th May (2013) the Secretary of State for Education delivered a speech at Brighton College entitled "What does it mean to be an educated person?" In his speech Mr Gove criticises those who have opposed his department's proposals for the new National Curriculum suggesting those...