Bio

If you’re curious about how Massachusetts fits into the Protestant Reformation, puzzled by the apparent paradox of New England’s slave economy and site as the first printed American anti-slavery tract, or simply want to know how ordinary people loved, worked, worshipped, and died, the Partnership of Historic Bostons is the place for you. 

We’ve been providing public history programs since 1999, when we were founded as a partnership between Boston, Lincolnshire, in the UK, and Boston, England. We’re still going strong.

Through our free programs, you’ll see the peoples and ideas of 17th century Massachusetts come alive - from puritans to enslaved people fighting for freedom, from Scottish prisoners of war to Indigenous people insisting on their sovereignty .

We offer free, open-to-the-public lectures, discussions, walking tours, a book group and a regular lecture series - all by experts in the field who offer unparalleled insights into the past. This year's series: Metacom's Resistance, a retelling of the traditional story of King Philip's War which asks: how do we reckon with its consequences today?