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Power, authority and geography
Teaching History article
Dissatisfied by her previous enquiries on medieval kingship and inspired by Helen Castor’s 'She-Wolves', Elizabeth Carr sought to incorporate the stories of powerful medieval women such as Empress Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine into her Key Stage 3 curriculum. Carr used these stories to highlight to her pupils the crucial...
Power, authority and geography
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Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level
Teaching History feature
There is a wealth of literature arguing for the importance of accommodating a wide range of perspectives and experiences in school history curricula. Many have contended that it is crucial to include the stories of those traditionally omitted from historical records in order to teach history well. Others have emphasised...
Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level
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Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies
Teaching History feature
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies
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Teaching History 184: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 184: Different lenses
For millennia, human beings have used lenses as tools: to help them see further, to magnify or to correct defects of vision. Yet lenses can distort as well as illuminate the unseen.
Robert Hooke, the seventeenth-century scientist who helped popularise the microscope through his...
Teaching History 184: Out now
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New, Novice or Nervous? 156: Analysing interpretations
Teaching History feature
This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which others...
New, Novice or Nervous? 156: Analysing interpretations
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Sultan Süleyman's Marred Magnificence, John D. Norton
10 Prospect: History of Education at the Crossroads, Richard Aldrich
14 Personalia: Martin Booth and Keith Robbins
16 Reports: History at the Universities Defence Group and History at the Polytechnics
17 Portfolio Piece: John Hancock and the Declaration of Independence, John...
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'But why then?' Chronological context and historical interpretations
Teaching History article
When Michael Fordham was introduced to Dr Seuss's Butter Battle Book he immediately recognised its potential value in the classroom as a popular interpretation of the Cold War.
Wanting his Year 9 pupils to explain how and why the past has been interpreted in different ways he shows the potential pitfalls...
'But why then?' Chronological context and historical interpretations
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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...
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: A Prisoner's Pursuits: the Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, Gordon R. Batho
10 Record Linkage: Sir Lewis Harcourt and the Foreign Office Telegrams July 1914, Keith Wilson
13 Update: English Politics and Society in the Eighteenth Century, Bill Speck
16 HUDG: Middle Age Spread, John Boume
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Fiume 1919, John di Folco
6 Feature: Republicanism in Victorian Britain, Robert Woodall
10 Update: The Origins of the Cold War, John Young
14 Education Forum: Michael Biddiss, Alex Cowan
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Tudor Princes of Wales, P.R. Roberts
10 Update: Germany 1860-1918, V.R. Berghahn
13 Education Forum: History at 16 to 18, Eric Evans
14 Local History: Some Social History Premises, Norman McCord
18 Personalia: Past Presidents, W. Norton-Medlicott
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Reflections on the Armada Campaign, A.N. Ryan
10 Europe: Adventure in Understanding, Frederic Delouche
11 Update: Women in America, Margaret Walsh
14 Education: History in Primary Schools, Ann Low-Beer
15 Eyewitness: Letters from Nuremberg, Ron Brooks
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Sir Robert Peel, 1788-1850, Asa Briggs
8 Education Forum: The National Curriculum — what sort of history? Martin Roberts and Donald Read
9 Update: Politics and Religion in Tudor England, Ralph Houlbrooke
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Remembering Australia, K.S. Inglis
10 Update: Anglo-Saxon England, Henry Loyn
12 Comment: Curiouser and Curiouser, Colin Richmond
13 Portfolio: Cabinets of Curiosities, R. W. Unwin
18 Historical Reconstruction, Peter Brears
19 Education Forum: The Lost Generation? George Bernard
20 Local History: Shall I buy a Computer? David Short
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Palmerston, Man of Paradox, Muriel E. Chamberlain
10 Interpretation: Emperor Hirohito and Japanese History, Alan G.R. Smith
12 Local History: Vernacular Architecture and its Study, R. W. Brunskill
16 Update: The Crusades, Malcolm Bather
19 Education Forum: History 1989, Reform or Reaction, Christine Lloyd
20 Portfolio: Sinews of Wan Royalist Finances...
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Women in the Two World Wars, Penny Summer
10 Update: Modern India; Imperialism and Nationalism 1880 1947, Judith M Brown
13 Record Linkage: Heraldry and the Historian, Adrian Ailes
20 Anniversary: 150 Years of Photography
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Martin Luther King, Jr, Adam Fairclough
10 Update: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, Chris Wrigley
13 Education Forum: History and the National Curriculum, Martin Roberts
14 Portfolio: The Rise of the English Gentry 1150-1350, Cohn Richmond
19 Museums: Berlin Museums & the Third Reich, Tom Holder
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Question of Germanies, Michael Biddiss
10 Update: Britain at War 1914-1918, Keith Grieves
13 Portfolio: Moles under HQ? — Kennington Station and the First Tube Line, Neil Lloyd
14 Education Forum: History in Secondary Schools: the Scottish Experience, Mary B. Gould
15 Local History: Local History and...
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Japan in Perspective, Richard Tames
10 Eyewitness: One of a Luckless Tribe: Arthur Moore and the Amiens Despatch, Keith Haines
12 Record Linkage: Cartoon Corner: Curriculum Controversy Caricatured
14 Portfolio: Ramsay MacDonald: Aviator and Ac'ionman, Adrian Smith
16 Education Forum: Monsteh, History and the Young Child, Paul Noble...
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Gods of Roman Britain, David Shotter
9 Update: Slavery and the Plantation System in the British Caribbean: The example of Jamaica, Verene A. Shepherd
12 In Memoriam: Dr Esmond de Beer
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Images: Catherine II of Russia, Enlightened Absolutism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Roger Bartlett
10 Update: Disraeli, Ian Machin
12 Portfolio: The Secret 'Iron Tongs' of Midwifery, Joyce Rushen
14 Terylene, Rex Collins
16 Local History: The Ordnance Survey: A Quick Guide for Historians, Richard Oliver
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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?...
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Ending of a Myth: The Fall of Singapore, 1942, Joseph Kennedy
9 Update: The Conservative Party and British Politics 1902-40, Stuart Ball
12 Education Forum: The Job of an Archives Education Officer, Mary Mills
28 Spotlight: Sheffield
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The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Looking Back on the Levellers, Austin Woolrych
10 Update: The Vietnam War, Peter Riddick
13 Education Forum: History in the National Curriculum and All That: Year One, Ian Coulson
14 Communications: County Records Office, F.B. Stitt
18 Local History: Managing the Past: Archaeology in the National Parks, Robert...
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The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
3 Feature: Charlemagne, Stuart Airlie
10 Update: Did the Liberals still have a Future in 1914?, Geoffrey Searle
13 Record Linkage: Perceptions of the Public Record Office, Sarah Tyacke
16 Anniversary: The Massacre of Glencoe, Allan Macinnes
19 Report: History in Higher Education: A Change That's Purely Academic,...
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