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  • Creating a school museum

      Primary History case study
    Using an artefacts loans service Within the UK there is a wealth of museums and heritage sites across the country, offering children, young people and teachers the chance to experience a hands on approach to history and telling the story of our past. However if you are unable to visit...
    Creating a school museum

  • Teaching History 28

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 Notes on Contributors, 3 The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, 3 Why History - the Teachers - Peter Carpenter, 6 History 16-19, 8 Profile: Peggy Bryant - Martin Booth, 9 How I taught history - Sinclair Atkins, 11 Practical Points on Teaching History to less-able secondary pupils,...
    Teaching History 28

  • Enlightened Despotism

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet covers the often confused concept of Enlightened Despotism (also known as Enlightened Absolutism). The essential nature of Enlightened Despotism and its origin are discussed, as well as the development and character of Enlightened Despotism in various governments, followed by a judgement of its' achievements and significance. Catherine the Great,...
    Enlightened Despotism

  • King Charles I

      Classic Pamphlet
    The principles involved in the great religious and constitutional conflicts of the seventeenth century are so important to us today, that it seems desirable on the occasion of the present tercentenary to lay before the members of the Historical Association some means of examining and re-examining their views on the...
    King Charles I

  • The Long Winding Road to the White House

      Historian article
    The Long Winding Road to the White House: caucuses, primaries and national party conventions in the history of American presidential elections Almost the Last Hurrah At last we know officially. In late August at their 40th national convention in Tampa, Florida, the Republican party formally nominated its candidates to run...
    The Long Winding Road to the White House

  • Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to 'freeborn John'

      Historian article
    When was Magna Carta launched on its modern career as a symbol of freedom and liberty? Justin Champion looks at the role of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century lawyers and politicians in shaping how we see the Charter today. ‘For every person who knows what the contents of Magna Carta actually...
    Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to 'freeborn John'

  • Magna Carta: oblivion and revival

      Historian article
    Magna Carta was to go through a number of revisions before it finally took its place on the statute book. Nicholas Vincent takes us through the twists and turns of the tale of the Charter's death and revival after June 1215.   The Charter issued by King John at Runnymede is...
    Magna Carta: oblivion and revival

  • Teaching the history of women in Europe in the twentieth-century

      Teaching History article
    This article is based on Ruth Tudor’s book. The book is the collaborative result of a series of seminars and discussions which involved educators throughout Europe. Written with 14-19 year olds in mind, the approach explores how it is possible to investigate, to exploit to provide new insights and to...
    Teaching the history of women in Europe in the twentieth-century

  • Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting

      Historian article
    Joe Smith, Kim Hammond and George Revill share some of the findings of their work examining what digital broadcast archives are available and which could be made available in future.  The BBC’s archives hold over a million hours of programmes, dating back to the 1930s (radio) and 1940s (television). It...
    Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting

  • Keeping the kids on message...one school's attempt at helping sixth form students to engage in historical debating using ICT

      Teaching History article
    At post-16 level, keeping the ‘kids’ on message is critical. Teaching and learning must be focused on the relatively narrow goals of the examination syllabus, but set within broader historical and historiographical contexts. Students need to how know, and where, to fit their ideas into those of existing historians. Ideally...
    Keeping the kids on message...one school's attempt at helping sixth form students to engage in historical debating using ICT

  • Unpicking the learning potential in creative approaches to studying World War II

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘The biggest issue for school history is its limited place in the curriculum.' (Ofsted, 2007) This central concern of Ofsted's 2007 report, History in the balance, could equally apply to the teaching of drama in primary schools....
    Unpicking the learning potential in creative approaches to studying World War II

  • British organised youth and the First World War

      Historian article
    This posthumously published article by John Springhall was presented to us, with recommended illustrations, shortly before his death. It reflects his interest in popular culture and how people lived their lives in quite a remarkable manner. Adult-directed British uniformed youth movements played a  significant but often overlooked role during the...
    British organised youth and the First World War

  • What made Cleopatra so special?

      Article
    Ancient Egyptian civilisation is rich and mysterious with distinctive visual imagery and strange animal-headed gods. The exotic differences of the society have always intrigued the western imagination and so they continue to ensure that this is a popular unit with both teachers and children. There are plentiful resources with new...
    What made Cleopatra so special?

  • 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

  • What can you do with a Victorian Trade Directory…?

      Primary History article
    What is a trade directory? Trade directories are the equivalent of the telephone directory and the Yellow Pages. They were published on a county or city basis every year and contain detailed descriptions of every village and town in the county. They also contain pages and pages of advertisements, for...
    What can you do with a Victorian Trade Directory…?

  • 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

  • Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their casual reasoning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Does new vocabulary help students to express existing ideas for which they do not yet have words or does it actually give them new ideas which they did not previously hold? James Woodcock asks whether...
    Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their casual reasoning

  • Dramatising Boudicca and the Celts

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links are outdated. The story of Boudicca lends itself equally well to both history and drama. As a key part of work on ‘The Romans', it is an example of how history and drama when used together can contribute to...
    Dramatising Boudicca and the Celts

  • Cunning Plan 103: why did Henry VIII marry so many times?

      Teaching History feature
    This enquiry sequence was inspired by an Historical Association lecture given last year by Susan Doran entitled, ‘Why did Elizabeth I not marry?’ Through its 14-19 conferences, sections of this journal and local branch activity, the Historical Association has started to secure stronger connection between up-to-date historical scholarship and classroom...
    Cunning Plan 103: why did Henry VIII marry so many times?

  • Teaching History 21

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3 Classified Advertisements, 8 An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9 Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15 Teaching the Varieties of...
    Teaching History 21

  • Artefacts in the neighbourhood

      Primary History article
    Alf Wilkinson uses an everyday object found near you – a post box – to develop your children’s history skills. Look carefully at the picture. It is a familiar object in the neighbourhood. It is a postbox – there will be one (or more) near you. Go out and look...
    Artefacts in the neighbourhood

  • The Historian 76: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 2002 Medlicott Lecture: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty - Ben Pimlott (Read article) 16 The Irish historians’ role and the place of history in Irish national life - George Boyce (Read article)  20 The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Ritchie Ovendale (Read article) 28 Archbishops...
    The Historian 76: Jubilee and the idea of Royalty

  • The Early Mediaeval State

      Classic Pamphlet
    In order to define the constitution of a state, theorists and historians still apply Aristotle's categories; monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. This method has obvious limitations; there can be no doubt that the formal sovereignty either of an individual or of a minority or a majority does not of itself suffice...
    The Early Mediaeval State

  • Real Lives: Flora Sandes

      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: Flora Sandes

  • English Heritage's Heritage Explorer

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. [THINK BUBBLE, has burst, r.i.p... Diogenes, a curmudgeonly Ancient Greek cynic, has taken its place. The original Grumpy Old Man Diogenes typically looks back to a mythical golden age] Introduction Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember a time when primary school...
    English Heritage's Heritage Explorer