The HA: our parent association

The Medlicott Medal  Awarded annually for outstanding contributions to History. Professor Catherine Hall Recipient of the Medlicott Medal in 2024

HA President, Professor Alexandra Walsham


Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. She served as Chair of the Faculty of History between 2019 and 2022. She was an undergraduate and Masters student at the University of Melbourne before coming to Trinity College, Cambridge, for her PhD. After a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, she taught at the University of Exeter for fourteen years before returning to Cambridge in 2010. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009 and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2013. She was appointed a CBE for services to History in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2017.