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  • The National Insurance Act 1911: three perspectives, one policy

      Historian article
    Sandwiched between the Parliament Act and the Home Rule Act, the National Insurance Act 1911 is easily overlooked and often forgotten. Yet, as Gilbert has pointed out, it was critical both of itself and as the foundation for social legislation up to current times. It came into force on 15...
    The National Insurance Act 1911: three perspectives, one policy

  • The role of Devon's militia during the Spanish Armada crisis

      Historian article
    The precise role of Devon's militia during summer 1588 has, until recently, been shrouded by the recurrent tendency of historians to misinterpret the primary function of the militias in the southern maritime counties. The basic idea put forward has been that their main role during the Armada crisis was to...
    The role of Devon's militia during the Spanish Armada crisis

  • Art and History: Justifying the Links

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. History and Art have been taught as traditional subjects for many years and as cross curricular subjects they compliment each other beautifully. I do not see how we can realistically completely separate them...
    Art and History: Justifying the Links

  • Teaching History 149: In Search of the Question

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial  03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Ed Podesta - Helping Year 7 put some flesh on Roman bones (Read article) 18 Diana Laffin - Marr: magpie or marsh harrier? The quest for the common characteristics of the genus ‘historian' with 16- to 19-year-olds (Read article) 26 Cunning...
    Teaching History 149: In Search of the Question

  • The Historian 21

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Sick people, health and doctors in Georgian England - Roy Porter 7 Portfolio: The life and death of Colonel Blimp - Kevin Jefferys 10 Update: The French Revolution - Norman Hampson 24 Education Forum: Pushing for the past - Nicholas Reeves
    The Historian 21

  • Holistic assessment through speaking and listening

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Giles Fullard and Kate Dacey wanted to enrich their department's planning for progression across Key Stage 3 with a strong sequence of activities fostering argument. They wanted an opportunity for students to draw together their...
    Holistic assessment through speaking and listening

  • Case Study: Effectively using the census in the classroom

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The British government introduced the census in 1801 to count every man, woman and child in the UK. The Census has been repeated, with increasing detail, every 10 years, with the exception of 1941, since then. This gives us an amazing...
    Case Study: Effectively using the census in the classroom

  • Case Study: Historical information and the local community

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The ICT revolution A paper register, a pink-lined A4 mark book and a written school log book are surely historical artefacts? The transition from paper to digital technology continues, changing the world of the classroom teacher whose working life like mine,...
    Case Study: Historical information and the local community

  • Is teaching about the Holocaust suitable for primary aged children?

      Primary History case study
    Editorial note: While this is a valuable paper, we must point out that the normal ethical procedures concerning such a sensitive, emotional subject must be followed in relation to pupils, their parents/carers and the wider community, i.e. the protocols for permission and clearance to teach such topics must be followed....
    Is teaching about the Holocaust suitable for primary aged children?

  • A museum in the classroom: Learning history from objects

      Primary History article
    I teach history education at the University of Minho, in Portugal. The writing of English researchers about the role of objects and of class museums in teaching history to young children inspired me to undertake similar research in Portugal, which is outlined in this article. Several researchers have highlighted the...
    A museum in the classroom: Learning history from objects

  • The Historian 69: Don't Blame the Messengers

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 The adventures of Peter Porcupine: William Cobbett in the United States, 1792-1800 - Noel Thompson 9 Don't Blame the Messengers: News Agencies Past and Present 16 ‘The War against God': Napoleon, Pope Pius VII and the People of Italy, 1800-1814. 22 Squalor and rough justice in Watford
    The Historian 69: Don't Blame the Messengers

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial  - Professionalism, Scholarship, Theory and Research   Ismail DemircioÄŸlu - Does the Teaching of History in Turkey Need Reform?   Terry Haydn - Subject Discipline Dimensions of ICT and Learning: History, a Case Study   Sonia Kerrigan - Creating a Community School Museum: Theory into Practice   Romero Morante...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

  • The Historian 114: TV: modern father of history?

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 TV: modern father of history? - Bettany Hughes (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Jackie Eales 12 My Favourite History Place: Mountfitchet Castle - Alf Wilkinson (Read Article) 13 Historical events or people in ten tweets - Paula Kitching 14 News from 59a 16 No longer "A...
    The Historian 114: TV: modern father of history?

  • The Historian 20

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, C N.L Brooke 10 Update: The Industrial Revolution, John J. Mason 13 Local History: Laxton: England's Last Open Field Village, John Beckett 17 Education Forum: The School History Question, Roger Hennessey
    The Historian 20

  • Where are we? The place of women in history curricula

      Teaching History article
    Joanne Pearson reflects on her experiences as a history teacher and teacher educator, considering the ways in which she has seen women represented in the history curricula of different schools in England. She makes the case that greater attention needs to be paid by history teachers to the criteria against...
    Where are we? The place of women in history curricula

  • Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars

      Historian article
    Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars The war with France, which began in 1793, had moved to the Iberian Peninsula by 1808. This year is therefore the two-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of the Peninsular War campaigns. War on the Peninsula demanded huge resources of manpower in order to defeat...
    Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars

  • The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners

      Article
    Featured articles: 4 The Unpredictable Rise of the Duke of Wellington by Neville Thompson 9 The Peninsula War: A Review of recent literature by Charles Esdaile 13 The defence of Britain's Eastern Empire after World War One by John Fisher 18 Mining Communities without Mines by Lucy Russell 23 The...
    The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners

  • The Historian 19

      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
    The Historian 19

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

  • History's big picture in three dimensions

      Historian article
    More and more historians, from diverse political viewpoints, are now expressing concern at the fragmentation of history, especially in the schools curriculum. The fragmentation of the subject has followed upon the collapse of sundry Grand Narratives, such as the ‘March of Progress', which once swept all of history into a...
    History's big picture in three dimensions

  • The soldier in Later Medieval England

      Historian article
    Traditionally, the Middle Ages have been portrayed as the ‘Feudal Age', when men were given land in return for performance of unpaid military service. Whilst this may have formed the basis of the English military system in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it was most certainly not the way armies...
    The soldier in Later Medieval England

  • Triumphs Show 130: Righting the Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    It was period 5 on a wet Wednesday afternoon deep into the winter term. Year 9 were even more difficult than usual. Being cooped up inside at lunch, without supervision, had not helped the situation. What was I going to do with this untamed bunch? Put on a trusted video?...
    Triumphs Show 130: Righting the Revolution

  • 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'

  • History through Drama, A Teachers' Guide - Revisited

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is now some seventeen years since the publication of our original pamphlet by the Historical Association [HA] as part of the Teaching of History Series (Wilson and Woodhouse, 1990). This article offers a personal review...
    History through Drama, A Teachers' Guide - Revisited

  • Drama and history: a theory for learning

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. When I visit primary schools these days it heartens me to see how often drama is used in classroom teaching. Looking back over my own career, drama and role play have always been...
    Drama and history: a theory for learning