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Is that where the Birmingham argument we had a few months ago came from then?[/quote]

No. In standard English, in fact all English spoken in the UK, the H in the -ham suffix is silent.

That's not really it.

You never say "An history lesson", because the stress falls on the first sylable, therefore, the H is quite prominent.

Historical is different, because the stress falls on...

Well the use with "U" is obvious, because in English, U often is pronounced "Yoo", which starts with a consonant sound.

"In speech, "an historical event" is fine". That makes it sound like it is...

In Russian there is a rule though.

There are grey areas in English regarding A/an

E.g. it's usage with H (and I'm not talking about silent H).

An historic event
A history lesson

Above is...

Firstly it's not hard to say у его

because Е is technically not a vowel, since it is made up of TWO sounds:

Й + Э

And Й is a consonant.

Like in English

Sort of true.

But you still say У его сына есть (His song has...)

Because here его is the possesive (his), and not the pronoun (him).

After a preposition их, его, её, (PRONOUNS, not the possesives) add an initial Н.

Я его знаю
У него есть...

Note these are not the possesives его (his), её (her), их (their), but the...