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  • Connecting poetry, philosophy and landscapes in Ancient China

      Historian article
    It is unusual for historians to focus primarily on poetry to provide insights into the past societies they are studying. Here Nicholas Tyldesley explains the value of poetry to help us understand the ideas, values and some important historical events in Ancient China, with a particular focus on poets Li...
    Connecting poetry, philosophy and landscapes in Ancient China

  • Religion and Politics 1559-1642

      Classic Pamphlet
    It is a truism to say that religion and politics were inextricably mixed in the seventeenth century. "So natural" wrote Richard Hooker,"is the union of religion with Justice, that we may boldly deem there is neither where both are not" Sir John Eliot observed that in the House of Commons...
    Religion and Politics 1559-1642

  • Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?

      Teaching History feature
    Question: Who is buried in the box? Seeking a new and exciting way to introduce my Year 7 students to history, I looked to a practical solution. Ian Dawson once used a Thinking History exercise where students looked at the idea of ‘layers of history'. It was useful in structuring...
    Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?

  • History 340

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online Articles...
    History 340

  • Medieval Trade Routes

      Classic Pamphlet
    The subject of Medieval Trade Routes presents certain difficulties at the outset. There is no clear definition of the word ‘medieval' and, whatever period is chosen, it is obvious that trade routes within that period would be unlikely always to follow the same direction or to be of the same...
    Medieval Trade Routes

  • Home Rule for Ireland - For and against

      Historian article
    At a time when the United Kingdom continues to review its internal constitutional arrangements, Matthew Kelly explores how this constitutional debate can be traced back to Gladstone's decision to promote Home Rule for Ireland and how these proposals evolved over time and were challenged. Irish political history decisively entered a...
    Home Rule for Ireland - For and against

  • History 332

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 98, Issue 332
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online 1....
    History 332

  • Polychronicon 146: Interpreting the history of 'big history'

      Teaching History feature
    In recent decades, a novel approach to history has emerged, called ‘big history', which provides an overview of all of human history, embedded within biological, geological and astronomical history covering the grandest sweep of time and space, from the beginning of the universe to life on Earth here and now....
    Polychronicon 146: Interpreting the history of 'big history'

  • The Origins of Parliament

      Classic Pamphlet
    He who would seek the origins of parliament cannot proceed without knowing that this is, and this has been, a matter much controverted. English politics have very often been conducted in terms of what has passed for history, not least because they have so frequently revolved around the rights and...
    The Origins of Parliament

  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Articles Eleni Apostolidou Teaching and Discussing Historical Significance with 15 year-old students in Greece Manuela Carvalho and Isabel Barca Students' Use of Historical Evidence in European Countries P. Checkley and C. Checkley ‘Future Teachers of the Past' - An initial analysis of Initial Teacher Training students and their preparation...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

  • Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning

      Primary History article
    Creative curricular planning With the National Curriculum under review, it seems that more schools are taking a creative approach to planning by delivering the curriculum through a focused theme or topic. This has allowed schools to take more ownership of the curriculum and has helped teachers become more innovative in their...
    Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning

  • Woodcraft Youth: the interwar alternative to scouting

      Historian article
    ‘We should recognize once and for all', exclaimed ‘White Fox', a rebel London Scout leader, ‘that the ideas and ideals which may have fitted fairly well into the social fabric of 1908 [year Scouts formed] may be very ill-fitting "reach-medowns" in 1920'. During the First World War, the enthusiastic support...
    Woodcraft Youth: the interwar alternative to scouting

  • History 331

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 98, Issue 331
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online Editorial...
    History 331

  • Teaching students to argue for themselves - KS3

      Teaching History article
    Keeley Richards secured a fundamental shift in some of her Year 13 students' ability to argue. She did it by getting them to engage more fully with the practice of argument itself, as enacted by four historians. At the centre of her lesson sequence was an original activity: the historians'...
    Teaching students to argue for themselves - KS3

  • Period, place and mental space

      Teaching History article
    Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by...
    Period, place and mental space

  • The League of Nations

      Classic Pamphlet
    It is common to see the failure of the League of Nations in its inability to stand up to the crises of the inter-war years.Peter Raffo shows that the League was flawed from the start. Never more than a voluntary association of sovereign states hoping to create ‘an atmosphere capable...
    The League of Nations

  • Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

      Teaching History article
    Patterns of genocide: can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention? Alison Stephen, who has wrestled for many years with the challenges of teaching emotional and controversial history within a multiethnic school setting, relished the opportunity to link her school's teaching of the Holocaust with a comparative study of other genocides....
    Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

  • Ancient Athenian inscriptions in public and private UK collections

      Historian article
    Peter Liddel introduces us to a rich source of historical information and encourages us to make some purposeful visits to museums. From the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century, travellers from the UK explored the Mediterranean lands of ancient civilisations in search of trophies that demonstrated the achievements of the classical world. Highly...
    Ancient Athenian inscriptions in public and private UK collections

  • Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet provides an interesting approach to a historical topic which has been too frequently covered from a single viewpoint. The pamphlet delivers a thoroughly Scottish approach to the nature of the 1707 Union and the changing nature of Scotland in the following centuries. It highlights the disparity of the...
    Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707

  • Employment, employability and history

      Teaching History article
    Employment, employability and history: helping students to see the connection Five years ago, in Teaching History 132, Harris and Haydn drew attention to the fact that while the vast majority of Key Stage 3 students claimed to enjoy history and even to regard it as a useful subject, relatively few...
    Employment, employability and history

  • Year 9 face up to historical difference

      Teaching History article
    How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference Teaching her Key Stage 3 students in Essex, Catherine McCrory was struck by the stark contrast between their enthusiasm for studying diverse histories of Africa and the Americas and their reluctance to...
    Year 9 face up to historical difference

  • The Historian 115: The Long Winding Road to the White House

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The Long Winding Road to the White House: caucuses, primaries and national party conventions in the history of American presidential elections - Michael Dunne (Read Article) 13 The President's Column - Jackie Eales 14 Focus on Asa Briggs - Donald Read 16 My Favourite History Place -...
    The Historian 115: The Long Winding Road to the White House

  • How students make sense of the historical concepts of change, continuity and development

      Teaching History article
    First order knowledge and understanding, relating to the ‘stuff' of history, is, of course, absolutely fundamental to the development of children's historical knowledge and understanding. However, as Frances Blow shows, in a contribution to a series of articles exploring second order concepts in history published in Teaching History by Peter...
    How students make sense of the historical concepts of change, continuity and development

  • The London Charterhouse

      Historian article
    Four hundred years ago, in 1611, Thomas Sutton was reputed to be the wealthiest commoner in England but he was nearing the end of his life. He had been a financier and he was formerly the Master of Ordnance in the Northern Parts. He decided to take up good works...
    The London Charterhouse

  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 1

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 1 - Summer 2011. Editorial    Jean Pierre Charland, Marc-Andre Ethier,Jean Francois Cardin  History Written on Walls: a study of Quebec High School Students' historical consciousness   Michelle J. Bellino and Robert L. Selman High School Students' Understanding of Personal Betrayal...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 1