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  • The secret diaries of William Wilberforce

      Historian article
    John Coffey shows us what insights can be gained from the diaries of leading abolitionist, William Wilberforce. The diary is a distinctively modern genre... In English, the first diaries date from the Tudor era, but it is in the seventeenth century that the trickle becomes a flood. Alongside the famous...
    The secret diaries of William Wilberforce
  • Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century

      Historian article
    In her lecture to the General Strand of the HA Conference, Christine Fox describes the successes and failures of London institutions in dealing with the sixteenth-century crisis of poverty and elderly care. In late medieval and early modern thinking, human life was divided into three stages; youth, maturity, and old age. The latter...
    Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
  • The cultural biography of opium in China

      Historian article
    Zheng Yangwen shows that despite its association with trade, war and politics, opium was first of all a history of consumption. Opium has fascinated generations of scholars and generated excellent scholarship on the opium trade, Anglo-Chinese relations, the two opium wars, and Commissioner Lin. The field has diversified in the post-Mao...
    The cultural biography of opium in China
  • A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley

      Historian article
    Sara Read introduces us to a woman who challenged expectations during the turbulent years of the early seventeenth century. In 1622 a pious young woman with a highly unusual first name, Brilliana Conway, sat at her desk doodling her signature on her commonplace book. She had lofty ambitions for her self-development...
    A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley
  • Real Lives: The Russian hermit of Cornwall’s caves

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: The Russian hermit of Cornwall’s caves
  • My Favourite History Place: Queen Square, Bath

      Historian feature
    Some years ago, on the shore of Loch Lomond, I met a Scotsman. As we started to converse he asked me where I was from. When I replied ‘Bath’, his response was ‘Ah, the most beautiful city in Britain,’ adding, out of patriotism or good judgement, ‘Edinburgh is second.’ The Roman...
    My Favourite History Place: Queen Square, Bath
  • History Abridged: The City of Alexandria

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles One of the oldest cities...
    History Abridged: The City of Alexandria
  • Subject leader’s site: assessment and feedback

      Primary History article
    Very few teachers prefer assessment to teaching yet the latter has little point if there is no way of knowing that what we teach is beneficial to our pupils.  The problem is that there is no such thing as perfect assessment and feedback. For example, you cannot assess everything –...
    Subject leader’s site: assessment and feedback
  • Coherence in primary history

      Primary History article
    This article looks at what coherence is, how it can be mapped and ways in which classroom activities can enhance pupils’ awareness of the past in a more coherent way.  What is it?  The term ‘coherence’ has been around a fair time now. Most reincarnations of the National Curriculum have referred to the need for...
    Coherence in primary history
  • Robert Grosseteste (c. 1170-1253)

      Historian article
    Jack Cunningham considers a medieval philosopher, the significance of whose ideas has grown in importance through the centuries. An appreciation of Grosseteste the thinker has not always been at its appropriate level during the almost 800 years since his death. If historians have paid attention to the great man this ...
    Robert Grosseteste (c. 1170-1253)
  • Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    05’Why can’t they just live together happily, Miss?’ Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE – Alison Stephen (Read article) 11 Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE – Chris Culpin (Read article) 15 Cunning Plan: Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after...
    Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions
  • Teaching History 101: History and ICT

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    History and Information Communication Technology, Using ICT in the history classroom, Extending pupils historical vision with limited resources, Using the wordprocessor to connect with knowledge and opinion through revelatory writing, Using the internet to teach about interpretation, Databases, spreadsheets and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3 and much more... A...
    Teaching History 101: History and ICT
  • How to Read Local Archives 1550-1700

      Classic Pamphlet
    The aim of this pamphlet is to encourage those interested in English history, especially university and school teachers, trainee teachers, and tutors of English and local history courses and classes, to teach themselves and their students how to read the last of the pre-italic handwritings, if they are not familiar...
    How to Read Local Archives 1550-1700
  • An Introduction to Primary History

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Primary History is the only dedicated magazine for history coordinators and subject leaders at primary level and is distributed to over 2,000 of our members every term (February, May and October). Subscribers include teachers, PGCE students, schools and school librarians. Become an HA Primary Member for subscription to Primary History and...
    An Introduction to Primary History
  • Primary History 18

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    7 The Cabot Voyages and Atlantic Exploration under the Tudors - Peter Fleming 8 Discovering Cabot's Bristol - Kieron Costello 12 Reviews 16 History Matters 17 Lessons from History for Primary Schools - Roy Hughes 19 Primary History resources
    Primary History 18
  • Primary History 2

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    5 Back to Worrying – Paul Noble 5 History Update – NCC and SEAC 6 In My Opinion – Pat Hughes 7 Evacuation Day – Dave Martin and Andy Cobb 9 Televising the Tudors and Stuarts – Nick Whines 10 Conference Report – Sue Lynn 11 Hands on Experience –...
    Primary History 2
  • Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

      Teaching History feature
    Julian Critchley demonstrates how role play can be used to explain military history.
    Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history
  • The Historian 33

      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
    The Historian 33