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History Journal is the official journal of the Historical Association. Hosting a range of accessible research-driven features written by academic researchers from all stages of career and study, archivists, and practitioners, our online offering is an extension of the Historical Association’s work in public…
‘History’ on the Web
Welcome to the online home of History: the journal of the Historical Association! Explore our site for interesting blog posts on historical research from across the world that addresses all time periods, topics, and methodologies. We also host pieces discussing pedagogy, theory, and recent…
Submissions
In addition to academic article submissions to our print journal, we welcome contributions to the website from a range of geographical, methodological or historical perspectives, and from all levels of study inside and outside ‘the academy’. History blog posts or other features can be…
Celebrating the Accession Day of Elizabeth I of England, 1558 and Beyond
By Aidan Norrie On 17 November 1558, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, succeeded to the throne of England and Ireland upon the death of her half-sister Mary I. She was England’s fourth monarch in eleven years (or fifth, if Jane Grey…
‘”A celebrated correspondence between the charming Mrs C- formerly well-known in the fashionable World – & her Amiable Daughter”’: The Historical Importance of the letters of Hitty and Bess Canning.[1]
By Rachel Smith Whilst reading through the eighteenth-century Canning Family archive at the West Yorkshire Archive Service in Leeds, I came across a rather interesting letter from John Murray, a publisher, to a Mrs Butler. Dated 25th July 1912, he wrote that I gather…
Face to Face Encounters: Letter-Writers and Portrait Photographs in the Russian State Archive
Hannah Parker On the final research trip for my PhD, I found some small portrait photographs of letter-writers in a file of between some hundred and a thousand 1925 letters to the editor of Krest’ianka – a series of biographies with enclosed photographs from…
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