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  • The Origins of Parliament

      Classic Pamphlet
    He who would seek the origins of parliament cannot proceed without knowing that this is, and this has been, a matter much controverted. English politics have very often been conducted in terms of what has passed for history, not least because they have so frequently revolved around the rights and...
    The Origins of Parliament

  • The Historian 14

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution, Hugh Cunningham 10 Anniversary: 200 — Not Out! Bicentenary of Lord's Cricket Ground 12 Education Forum: History from 14 to 16, Martin Roberts 13 Local History: The Countryside: History and Pseudo-History, Oliver Rackham 19 Interpretation: How Wicked were Irish Landlords? David-Paterson 23 Personalia: Profile...
    The Historian 14

  • Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites

      Teaching History article
    Working visits to historical sites for the purposes of developing pupils’ historical understanding can be extremely useful. As part of their training, student teachers need to acquire understanding and skills in the planning and management of worthwhile ‘fieldwork’. This work can be very powerful indeed if it emerges from co-operation...
    Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites

  • Case Study: Prehistory in the primary curriculum: A stonehenge to remember

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. An article in the Sunday Times newspaper on 7 December reported that Britain is to stop making nominations to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) for heritage sites to be granted World Heritage...
    Case Study: Prehistory in the primary curriculum: A stonehenge to remember

  • The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

      Article
    How did King Harold II die at the Battle of Hastings? The question is simple enough and the answer is apparently well known. Harold was killed by an arrow which struck him in the eye. His death is depicted clearly on the Bayeux Tapestry in one of its most famous...
    The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

  • Cunning Plan 100: teaching the First World War in Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    History teacher and head of department stand outside noisy Year 9 class. Bombs (paper ones) fly everywhere; in corner of room mutiny is being discussed ... many pupils are refusing to follow their leader's last minute orders - they will not be opting for history! The war of attrition (excessive...
    Cunning Plan 100: teaching the First World War in Year 9

  • The Historian 31

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Cultural Life in Latin America in the Age of the Enlightenment, John Fisher 10 Update: Spain and Portugal - From Dictatorship to Democracy, Richard Robinson 13 Portfolio: The Pageant of Monarchy: Royal Ceremonial in the Early Nineteenth Century, E.A. Smith 17 Local History: Can Our Record Offices Cope?...
    The Historian 31

  • How should we remember Rosa Parks?

      Primary History Article
    Rosa Parks died in October 2005, aged 92. It's a life story which resonates with any age group. In a recent visit to a nursery, I saw 4 year olds who had lined up the chairs to make a bus, playing out Rosa's refusal to move from her seat. She...
    How should we remember Rosa Parks?

  • 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

  • Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Getting students to generate their own questions can seem like a formidable challenge, even for experienced teachers with extensive subject knowledge developed over years of teaching. Imagine how much more alarming it appeared to a student-teacher being encouraged to take risks by handing more responsibility to the students. Could it...
    Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry

  • Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee

      Historian feature
    This 'Real Lives' piece is based on a series of interviews Annette Ormanczyk carried out in 2019 with Mrs Irena Persak, who was deported as a five-year-old child with her family in February 1940. As well as offering a fascinating personal account of life in the Soviet Union during the Second...
    Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee

  • 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

  • The Historian 15

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Tudor Princes of Wales, P.R. Roberts 10 Update: Germany 1860-1918, V.R. Berghahn 13 Education Forum: History at 16 to 18, Eric Evans 14 Local History: Some Social History Premises, Norman McCord 18 Personalia: Past Presidents, W. Norton-Medlicott
    The Historian 15

  • Real Lives: Harry Daley

      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: Harry Daley

  • Teaching History 24

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 3 `Public and Private Lives: Germany 1914 to 1939' - Diana Devlin, 3 The Perils of Clio in France - Clive Church, 7 Trends in History Teaching in France - L. 0. Ward, 12 How to Evaluate a History Department - John Higham, 14 Constraints in...
    Teaching History 24

  • Alexander II

      Classic Pamphlet
    The ‘great reforms' of Tsar Alexander II (1855-81) are generally recognised as the most significant events in modern Russian history between the reign of Peter the Great and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The most important of Alexander's reforms, the emancipation of he serfs in 1861, has been described...
    Alexander II

  • Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

      Teaching History feature
    The following plan provides a more detailed practical example of the approaches discussed in the article on using ancient texts. Having puzzled over what ancient texts actually are - carefully constructed interpretations? testimonies? (but testimonies to what?) myths? - I wanted my Ancient History GCSE class to engage in this...
    Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

  • Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination

      Historian article
    Commonly hailed as a discovery or a ‘medical breakthrough', vaccination against smallpox with cowpox exudate was a development of variolation i.e. inoculation with live smallpox matter - a technique popularised amongst the gentry in the early eighteenth century by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who had observed the procedure in Turkey...
    Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination

  • Ancient Greeks: The Olympics' War Games - Teaching through Drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. When I was a boy the Greek Olympics was one of the perennials of the primary history curriculum, alongside the Battle of Hastings and the execution of Charles I. I have memories of an old text...
    Ancient Greeks: The Olympics' War Games - Teaching through Drama

  • Whatever did the Greeks do for us?

      Primary History article
    The National Curriculum asks us to help our children to study ‘Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world’ [DfE 2013]. Lots of books explore the ancient Greeks [see, for example, Ancient Greece by Alf Wilkinson, Collins Primary Histories, published in 2019]. It is a familiar topic....
    Whatever did the Greeks do for us?

  • The Historian 39

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Black Death, James L. Bolton 10 Update: The Causes of British Imperialism: Battle Rejoined, Muriel Chamberlain 13 Biography: Sir Humphry Davy, 1778-1829: A Life Too Long? David M. Knight 16 Historiography: Historical Atlases Reconsidered, Jeremy Black 22 Personalia: Chris Wrigley
    The Historian 39

  • Smithfield's Bartholomew Fair

      Historian article
    On the north-western side of the City of London, directly in front of St Bartholomew's Hospital near the ancient church of St Bartholomew the Great, there once lay a ‘smooth field', now known as Smithfield. This open space of around ten acres had a long and turbulent history. In medieval...
    Smithfield's Bartholomew Fair

  • Jubilee and the Idea of Royalty

      2002 Medlicott Lecture
    The Medlicott Lecture delivered at the Historical Association Annual General Meeting on 27th April 2002, transcribed and featured in The Historian 76.
    Jubilee and the Idea of Royalty

  • 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

  • The Historian 26

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Martin Luther King, Jr, Adam Fairclough 10 Update: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, Chris Wrigley 13 Education Forum: History and the National Curriculum, Martin Roberts 14 Portfolio: The Rise of the English Gentry 1150-1350, Cohn Richmond 19 Museums: Berlin Museums & the Third Reich, Tom Holder
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