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  • The International Journal Volume 7 Number 1

      Journal
    Articles Dursun DilekUsing a Thematic Teaching Approach Based on Pupils' Skill and Interest in Social Studies Teaching   Helena GillespieTeaching Emotive and Controversial History to 7-11 Year Olds: a Report for The Historical Association   Robert GuyverThe History Curriculum in Three Countries - Curriculum Balance, National Identity, Prescription and Teacher...
    The International Journal Volume 7 Number 1

  • Comparing the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Jameson Raid

      Historian article
    Duplicated Debacles? A comparison of the 1895-96 Jameson Raid and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. Adam Burns and Robert Gallimore take us on two invasions, one by land and one by sea. Following the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and the rise to power of the socialist regime of Fidel...
    Comparing the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Jameson Raid

  • The Lady of the Black Horse: Mabel Stobart (1862–1954)

      Historian article
    Peter Down takes us on a winter retreat over snow-covered mountains. Mabel St Clair Stobart was born into a wealthy Victorian family and enjoyed an idyllic childhood. She was gifted academically and excelled at sport. Married at 22, she had two sons. Unfortunately in 1903 her husband lost his fortune and...
    The Lady of the Black Horse: Mabel Stobart (1862–1954)

  • The Historian 32

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Aggressive but Unsuccessful: Louis XIV and the European Struggle - Jeremy Black 10 Update: The Reign of Richard II, 1377-1399 - Alison McHardy 13 Education Forum: National Curriculum History: A Framework for the Future - Sue Bennett 14 Forum: Archive Services in Danger - Rosemary Dunhill 14 Reconstructing...
    The Historian 32

  • The Gallipoli Memorial, Eltham

      Historian article
    On April 13 2000 the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend Richard Harris, gave the final Gallipoli Memorial Lecture in the Gallipoli Memorial Chapel at Holy Trinity Church, Eltham. The National Gallipoli Memorial was established there due to the effort and enthusiasm of Holy Trinity’s Vicar, the Reverend Henry Hall,...
    The Gallipoli Memorial, Eltham

  • Polychronicon 165: The 1917 revolutions in 2017: 100 years on

      Teaching History feature
    The interpretive and empirical frameworks utilised by scholars in their quest to understand the Russian revolutions have evolved and transformed over 100 years. The opening of archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union enabled access to a swathe of new primary sources, some of which have had a transformative...
    Polychronicon 165: The 1917 revolutions in 2017: 100 years on

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles in the edition: Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation' Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

  • British organised youth and the First World War

      Historian article
    This posthumously published article by John Springhall was presented to us, with recommended illustrations, shortly before his death. It reflects his interest in popular culture and how people lived their lives in quite a remarkable manner. Adult-directed British uniformed youth movements played a  significant but often overlooked role during the...
    British organised youth and the First World War

  • The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge Disaster of 1845

      Historian article
    Many communities have cataclysmic disasters which tend to dominate or define their local history. Gareth Davies reveals that the sudden collapse of the Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge is a telling example of this trend. Beside the waters of the River Bure in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk stands a shiny black memorial...
    The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge Disaster of 1845

  • Teaching the First World War in the primary school

      Article
    The current commemorations of the First World War have opened the door to some real opportunities for those teaching primary history – perhaps even considering taking children to the battlefields. Although this is customarily a secondary-school experience, this article outlines the opportunities for primary-age children. The suggestions here are based...
    Teaching the First World War in the primary school

  • Learning about the past through toys and games

      Article
    A learning theme centred on toys and games is perfect for younger children as the Early Years curriculum is, of course, all about learning through play. Planned carefully, it can also provide many opportunities for children to develop their understanding of the past. Adult-directed learning opportunities Provide the children with...
    Learning about the past through toys and games

  • Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    A quarter-century on from 1989-91, with a large amount of archive and media material available, these epic years are ripe for historical analysis. Yet their proximity to our time also throws up challenging questions about the practice of ‘contemporary history’, and the complexity of events raises larger issues about how...
    Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War

  • The Historian 101: The snobbery of chronology

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front - Mark Mortimer (Read Article) President's Column - Anne Curry The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings - Chris Dennis (Read Article) Winston Churchill and the Islamic...
    The Historian 101: The snobbery of chronology

  • The Historian 31

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Cultural Life in Latin America in the Age of the Enlightenment, John Fisher 10 Update: Spain and Portugal - From Dictatorship to Democracy, Richard Robinson 13 Portfolio: The Pageant of Monarchy: Royal Ceremonial in the Early Nineteenth Century, E.A. Smith 17 Local History: Can Our Record Offices Cope?...
    The Historian 31

  • Tracking the health of history in England’s secondary schools

      Teaching History article
    In 2009 the Historical Association conducted the first of what has become an annual survey of history teachers in England. Its aim was to get beyond bare statistics relating to subject uptake and examination success to examine the reality of history teaching across all kinds of schools and to map...
    Tracking the health of history in England’s secondary schools

  • Social Unrest in the Isle of Man in 1916

      Historian article
    The Isle of Man played a remarkable role during the First World War. Over 8,000 men enlisted, which was 82.3% of the island’s men of military age. Even by the standards of the time this was high. Over 2,000 were either killed or wounded and two Victoria Crosses were awarded....
    Social Unrest in the Isle of Man in 1916

  • The Somme: a last innings for Yorkshire and England

      Historian article
    Ronan Thomas explores a tragic sporting outcome of the Battle of the Somme. At the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, the losses suffered by the British Army still have the power to shock. On 1 July 1916 alone nearly 60,000 men became casualties, of whom almost 20,000 were...
    The Somme: a last innings for Yorkshire and England

  • Mission to Kabul: Destabilising the British strategic position, 1916

      Historian article
    Jules Stewart gives us an insight into how the Germans attempted to destabilise the British strategic position in Afghanistan during the Great War. On a state visit to Berlin in 1928, the Emir of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan was shown a display of the latest in German technology, which included a...
    Mission to Kabul: Destabilising the British strategic position, 1916

  • The Northern Ireland Question 1886-1986

      Classic Pamphlet
    The nature of the rights of majorities and minorities is one of the most intractable of the issues raised by the Northern Ireland question, especially since much depends on definitions. Ulster Protestants are a majority in that province but a minority in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, while Catholics,...
    The Northern Ireland Question 1886-1986

  • Circle Time in the secondary history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Circle Time is a commonly used technique in primary classrooms and is sometimes used in secondary personal and social education lessons. This open form of classroom organisation allows pupils to share opinions in a democratic...
    Circle Time in the secondary history classroom

  • Nutshell 135: The challenge of analysing 'difference'

      Teaching History feature
    Hello Nutshell. What's all this stuff in the NC Attainment Target about ‘nature', ‘extent' and ‘interplay' of diversity? The trick is to look behind the word ‘diversity'. Then it all makes sense...
    Nutshell 135: The challenge of analysing 'difference'

  • Interdisciplinary forays within the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. How might history and art mutually enrich each other and enhance pupil experience? The short answer, and there is much more to be said as Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Veronica Boix Mansilla show, is by...
    Interdisciplinary forays within the history classroom

  • Anorexia Nervosa in the nineteenth century

      Historian article
    First referred to by Richard Morton (1637-98) in his Phthisiologia under the denomination phthisis nervosa as long ago as 1689, anorexia nervosa was given its name in a note by Sir William Gull (1816-90) in 1874. Gull had earlier described a disorder he termed apepsia hysterica, involving extreme emaciation without...
    Anorexia Nervosa in the nineteenth century

  • Year 8 and interpretations of the First World War

      Teaching History article
    Dan Smith was concerned that his pupils were drawing on over-simplified generalisations about different periods of the past when they were considering why interpretations change over time. This led him to consider how pupils’ contextual knowledge and chronological fluency might be used more explicitly in order to avoid weak generalisations...
    Year 8 and interpretations of the First World War

  • Polychronicon 162: Reinterpreting the May 1968 events in France

      Teaching History feature
    As Kristin Ross has persuasively argued, by the 1980s interpretations of the French events of May 1968 had shrunk to a narrow set of received ideas around student protest, labelled by Chris Reynolds a ‘doxa’. Media discourse is dominated by a narrow range of former participants labelled ‘memory barons’ –...
    Polychronicon 162: Reinterpreting the May 1968 events in France