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  • The Chapel and the Nation

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Noncoformitst chapel has played a crucial role in the history of the English and Welsh nations. When the great French historian Elie Halevy sought to explain the contrast between the turbulent history of his own country and the peaceful evolution of England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
    The Chapel and the Nation

  • 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

  • Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update: SEND matters 08 Working 9–5: how painters, plumbers and programmers help our pupils understand the role of the historian – Jessie Phillips and Sarah Jackson-Buckley (Read article) 18 What use is the myth of Winston Churchill? Teaching Year 9...
    Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past

  • Cunning Plan 151: When and for whom has 1688 been 'Glorious'?

      Teaching History feature
    This enquiry is about how interpretations are formed and why they change. It aims to show Year 9, right at the end of their study of British history, the ways in which meanings of 1688 have shifted over time. It will test students' knowledge and strengthen their chronology of 300...
    Cunning Plan 151: When and for whom has 1688 been 'Glorious'?

  • The River Don Engine

      Article
    Sarah Walters explores The River Don Engine - her favourite history place. The River Don Engine, though strictly an object, is almost big enough to be labelled as a place in its own right. It certainly needs its own high-ceilinged museum annex and it is in this room that I...
    The River Don Engine

  • Teaching History 109: Examining History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition asks the question: how do we create worthwhile examination courses that stimulate all pupils and strengthens the gold standard of rigour at the same time? Why we must change history at GCSE, Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge, Ensuring progression continues into GCSE,...
    Teaching History 109: Examining History

  • My Favourite History Place: David Pearse explores St Petersburg

      Historian feature
    If you want to understand Russian history from Peter the Great up to at least the 1917 Revolutions, you have to visit St Petersburg. Like Versailles, St Petersburg was built for an absolute monarch, on an unsuitable site, at the cost of many labourers' lives. Unlike Versailles, it was designed...
    My Favourite History Place: David Pearse explores St Petersburg

  • Significant people: Mary Wollstonecraft

      Primary History article
    ‘I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves’ – Mary Wollstonecraft The National Curriculum gives the freedom to select any significant individual and many schools have already chosen those outside the commonly-used ones such as Florence Nightingale, Christopher Columbus and Queen Victoria. There is also...
    Significant people: Mary Wollstonecraft

  • 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

  • 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

  • 1066: The Limits of our Knowledge

      Historian article
    As the most pivotal and traumatic event in English history, the Norman Conquest continues to generate controversy and debate, especially among those who know little about it or enjoy passing judgement on the past. Who had the better claim to the English throne, William the Conqueror or Harold Godwineson? Was...
    1066: The Limits of our Knowledge

  • Teaching History 165: Conceptualising breadth

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 ‘Victims of History’: challenging students’ perceptions of women in history - Bridget Lockyer and Abigail Tazzyman (Read article) 16 ‘It’s like Lord of the Rings, Sir. But real!’: Teaching, learning and sharing medieval history for all Chris Eldridge (Read article)...
    Teaching History 165: Conceptualising breadth

  • Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Kimberley Anthony and her history colleagues were troubled by Year 9's assumption that World War II was the only interesting thing that they were going to do in Year 9. Nineteenth-century industrialisation, even their own...
    Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century

  • Louis XIV

      Classic Pamphlet
    Louis XIV was born on 5 September 1638 and became King on May 14 1643 at the age of four years and eight months on the death of his father Louis XIII. He attended the Conseil d'en haut from 1649 when he was eleven years old. He announced his coming...
    Louis XIV

  • Teaching History 200: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 200: Telling Histories  In his recent book on the experiences of Parisians in the years leading up to the French Revolution, Robert Darnton describes the Tree of Cracow, a large chestnut tree in the garden of the Palais-Royal in central Paris.1 ‘Nouvellistes de bouche’ (oral newsmongers) gathered...
    Teaching History 200: Out now

  • Teaching History 192: Breadth

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 1093 and all that: broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources – Holly Hiscox (Read article) 18 Why I teach pupils things I don’t need them to remember forever: the role of takeaways in shaping a history curriculum...
    Teaching History 192: Breadth

  • The Historian 109: Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The British Government's Confidential Files on the United States - A. D. Harvey (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Anne Curry 12 Smithfield's Bartholomew Fair - Dianne Payne (Read Article) 18 The Charles Dickens Primary School Project - Alan Parkinson (Read Article) 22 Medieval ‘Signs and...
    The Historian 109: Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

  • The International Journal Volume 14, Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial and Editorial Review pp 5–12 National, International, Local And Regional History Curricula – Issues And Concerns pp 16–66 Australia pp 16–27 Resisting The Regime: An Insider’s View Of Australian History Education 2006–2014 Tony Taylor, University of Technology Sydney/Federation University Australia, Ultimo, Sydney/Churchill, Victoria Greece pp 28–54 The Traumatic Memory...
    The International Journal Volume 14, Number 1

  • The success of the Salford General Strike of 1911

      Historian article
    As we approach the centenary of Britain’s only national general strike, this article by Steve Illingworth tells the story of a successful local sympathetic strike in Salford in 1911. He analyses the reasons for the success of the Salford workers and considers why this kind of concerted industrial action could...
    The success of the Salford General Strike of 1911

  • The Historian 38

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: England in the 1690s: The Emergence of the Fiscal-Military State, W.A. Speck 10 Update: English Rural Society, 1750-1914, John Beckett 13 Portfolio: Propagandist Decrees and French Revolutionary Expansion, Michael Rapport 18 Local History: Britian's Industrial Heritage, Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson 22 Personalia: Marjorie Reeves
    The Historian 38

  • Teaching History 121: Transitions

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    05 ‘It’s like they’ve gone up a year!’ Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary history – Geraint Brown and Andrew Wrenn (Read article) 14 Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history – Alan Booth...
    Teaching History 121: Transitions

  • History in the news: George Floyd protest in Bristol – Colston statue toppled

      Primary History feature
    The killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 25 May 2020 sparked off protests against the way in which black people are treated both in America and many countries across the world. Thousands of people attended an anti-racist demonstration in Bristol. A group of the...
    History in the news: George Floyd protest in Bristol – Colston statue toppled

  • The Historian 25

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Francesco Crispi and the Legacy of the Rsorgimento, Christopher Duggan 9 Update: Popular Protest in Britain c.1811-1850, John Rule 24 Education Forum: Computers in the Teaching and Learning of History, Aknic Dickinson 
    The Historian 25

  • Five stones in St Albans: life in Verulamium

      Historian article
    In this article, based on a prize winning essay for the Historical Association’s Young Historian competition, Alice Finnie explores aspects of the important Roman town of Verulamium, on the site of the modern city of St Albans. Her focus is on five stones that survive from the Roman period. She...
    Five stones in St Albans: life in Verulamium

  • History 383

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 108, Issue 383
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online William...
    History 383