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  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

      Teaching History feature
    The historiography of the British Empire has taken a long course since the era of decolonisation. Political histories of the late twentieth century considered the mechanisms connecting crises at the ‘periphery’ with metropolitan decision-making. One rather overused stereotype was the so-called ‘man on the spot’ pushing empire forward, be they...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

  • Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives,...
    Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

  • What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches

      Teaching History article
    Much has been written in recent years about how historical scholarship can be used to shape practice in the classroom. As an historian of the medieval period now working as an history teacher, Dhwani Patel offers a fresh perspective on these debates. During her PGCE year, Patel found herself reflecting...
    What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches

  • Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

      Teaching History article
    David Nicholls summarises some of the problems facing history education and offers a commentary on various cases for reform. He argues that we need to look at provision holistically from 5 to 21 and urges collaboration across phases and sectors. By working more closely together, the history community as a...
    Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

  • 1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association

      The Historian 91
    4 Foreword - Lady Antonia Fraser 6 Swanning around - Jeremy Paterson 10 A Parade of Past Presidents 1906-82 - Donald Read 24 The Norton Medlicott Medal - Bill Speck 30 For Short Time an Endless Monument: The Shifting History of a Familiar London Landmark - Lisa Jardine 38 Wise...
    1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association

  • Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes the only way to go beyond the exam is to take another, more difficult, test. For the top—the very top—A2 students, there is such a test available. The Advanced Extension Award [AEA] is a history paper which encourages students finishing their school careers to think about history in a...
    Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history

  • 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

  • Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hammond sets out a rationale for linking the National Curriculum requirement to study interpretations of history with her pupils’ own evidence handling skills. She makes connections with history-teacher-led debates and innovations in both areas, but particularly the work of Howells (2005). She describes and evaluates a learning sequence that...
    Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods

  • History Coordinators' Dilemmas: Catering for the Gifted and Talented

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Gifted and talented in history? I can understand it in music and physical education, maybe in numeracy but surely not history? All curriculum areas have now been told that they have to identify such children...
    History Coordinators' Dilemmas: Catering for the Gifted and Talented

  • Primary History 45: History in the Foundation and Early Years

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial 05 2006-2007 Historical Association History and ICT project — Alf Wilkinson 08 Citizenship: Citizenship through the English National Curriculum’s The Romans In Britain Study Unit — Hilary Claire 10 In my view: consigning history to the history books — Denis Hayes 11 Introducing history into the KS1 curriculum...
    Primary History 45: History in the Foundation and Early Years

  • Why was it so important to see Dunkirk as a triumph rather than a disaster in 1940?

      Historian article
    Karin Doull investigates the perceptions of the outcome of the Dunkirk evacuation within the contextual framework of the time at which it occurred. In May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and a proportion of the French First Army group had withdrawn, under heavy fighting to the port of Dunkirk on the...
    Why was it so important to see Dunkirk as a triumph rather than a disaster in 1940?

  • The Japanese History Textbook Controversy: a Content Analysis

      Historian article
    With almost monotonous regularity the official release in Japan of new or revised secondary school history textbook editions, as well as primeministerial annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine to commemorate the 2.5 million Japanese war dead (including 14 Class-A war criminals), unleash a wave of international protest concerning Japan’s official...
    The Japanese History Textbook Controversy: a Content Analysis

  • How did the Civil Rights movement change America?

      Historian article
    In 1984 Jimmy Carter reflected on growing up in the segregated South. He recalled that, as a young child, he, like many white children, had had an African American child as his closest friend. The two children spent all their play time together. One day they travelled on the train...
    How did the Civil Rights movement change America?

  • Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking

      Teaching History article
    A case study in professional thinking Michael Fordham examines the evolution of his own practice as an example of how history teachers draw upon collective, professional knowledge constructed by other history teachers in journals, books, conferences and seminars. Fordham explains how a  particular Year 7 enquiry examining historical change from the...
    Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking

  • Teaching about racism, fairness and justice through key people

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Our school has no uniform. You can’t predict what most children or teachers will wear from one day to the next. So the children were rather surprised one day in July 1996 when most of...
    Teaching about racism, fairness and justice through key people

  • Teaching about the translatlantic slave trade and emancipation

      Primary History article
    Introduction – slavery, abolition and emancipation 25 March 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. It is not compulsory to teach about the slave trade. However, the links to the National Curriculum – particularly in history, citizenship and geography – are clear. The...
    Teaching about the translatlantic slave trade and emancipation

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the long-term impact of the Black Death on English towns

      A Polychronicon of the Past
    In the summer of 1348, the Chronicle of the Grey Friars at Lynn described how sailors had arrived in Melcombe (now Weymouth) bringing from Gascony ‘the seeds of the terrible pestilence’. The Black Death spread rapidly throughout England, killing approximately half the population. While the cause of the disease, the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the long-term impact of the Black Death on English towns

  • The Historian 88: Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Letters  5 Editorial  6 HA News 8 Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore: Southern New Dealers And The Modern South — Professor A.J. Badger (Read article) 17 Echoes of Tsushima — Ronan Thomas (Read article) 22 Twickenham as a Patriotic Town — Michael Lee (Read article) 26 What does the...
    The Historian 88: Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore

  • How history teachers can support their own and others' continued professional learning

      Teaching History article
    ‘If I wasn't learning anything new about teaching I would have left it by now!' How history teachers can support their own and others' continued professional learning Katharine Burn has a longstanding interest in history teachers' professional learning - not just the ways in which experienced teachers can support beginners,...
    How history teachers can support their own and others' continued professional learning

  • 'Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school

      Teaching History article
    ‘Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school and teacher development in the spirit of ubuntu The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan observed many years ago and the ‘form' of what we do carries ‘content' as Hayden White has argued. This article...
    'Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school

  • Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

      Teaching History article
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society Elizabeth Carr writes here about a new scheme of work she developed to teach students about diversity in Victorian society. When dealing with a concept such as diversity, it can be easy for students to slip into stereotypes based...
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

  • The Historian 87: How Nelson Became a Hero

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    6 How Nelson became a hero: Horatio Nelson's date with Destiny - Kathleen Wilson (Read article) 18 France during the reign of Louis XVI - Emma Kennedy (Read article) 21 Christopher Hill: Marxism & Methodism - Penny Corfield (Read article) 24 A Crusading Outpost: Edessa 1095-1153 - Kenneth Thomson (Read...
    The Historian 87: How Nelson Became a Hero

  • Women in the Tramway Industry 1914-1919

      Article
    Rosemary Thacker writes about one unusual area of expansion of war-time work for women in the Great War.
    Women in the Tramway Industry 1914-1919

  • Photography in Korea, The Hermit Kingdom

      Article
    Terry Bennett provides an introduction to the earliest surviving photographs of Korea. It is, on the face of it, remarkable how late it was before the camera ventured into Korea. If we accept that photography effectively began with Louis Daguerre’s invention in 1839, it was a full 32 years later,...
    Photography in Korea, The Hermit Kingdom

  • After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain

      Historian article
    Much has been written during the last 50 years about the events leading up to and during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Less consideration has been given to the students who arrived in Britain as refugees. During the weeks following the Soviet intervention in Hungary around 25,000 people were killed...
    After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain