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  • Powerful Pedagogy

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The introduction of National Curriculum History in England as a statutory subject in 1989/90 faced primary teachers with a major challenge of how to teach a de facto new subject. The Nuffield Foundation funded a curriculum...
    Powerful Pedagogy

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 151: Getting beyond bad ‘source work'

      Teaching History feature
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 151: Getting beyond bad ‘source work'

  • The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines in the sand

      Historian article
    Paula Kitching reveals how a secret diplomatic negotiation 100 years ago provides an insight into the political complexities of the modern-day Middle East. The Middle East is an area frequently in the news. Over the last ten years the national and religious tensions appear to have exploded with whole regions...
    The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines in the sand

  • The 1620 Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America

      Historian article
    On the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in New England on the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock explores the reasons for migration to the New World in 1620 and later, and the significance of those migrants, both at the time and their impact on the evolution of the USA...
    The 1620 Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America

  • How can old advertisements be used in the primary classroom?

      Primary History article
    Advertising is a central part of our everyday lives. There are few ways to escape it and it has a long pedigree. It has long been recognised that it can help sell products through the power of the punch line or the visual image. Trade cards appeared as early as...
    How can old advertisements be used in the primary classroom?

  • Racism and equality through the 1936 Berlin Olympics: the Olympics, Nationalism and Identity

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. This article outlines ideas for teaching history with crosscurricular links to citizenship, with a Year 6 class...
    Racism and equality through the 1936 Berlin Olympics: the Olympics, Nationalism and Identity

  • Immigration and the making of British food

      Historian article
    Panikos Panayi explores the way in which immigration has transformed British eating habits over the last two centuries, whether through the rise of the restaurant and the development of eating out, or the culinary revolution at home. Those people who voted to leave the European Union in 2016 because of...
    Immigration and the making of British food

  • Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages

      Teaching History feature
    The history of medicine, health, and illness between c. 500 AD and 1500 has received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent decades. It’s a fascinating field that can tell us a great deal about medieval people’s everyday lives and their day-to-day worries: after all, everyone is ill or...
    Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages

  • The Historian 9

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Past's Living Voice: Coinage as Media, Harold Mattingly 10 Update: Trade Unions in Britain 1875-1939, Chris Wrigley 24 Personalia: Profile of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr 27 Spotlight: Bangor
    The Historian 9

  • Out and about in Glasgow

      Historian feature
    Glasgow's George Square statues -‘Through the looking glass' History is often illumined by writers of genius but Glasgow did not produce a Zola, a Balzac, a Dickens or even an Arnold Bennet. We are, therefore, thrown back on looking at other manifestations of a powerful and wealthy city to augment...
    Out and about in Glasgow

  • Robert Peel: Portraiture and political commemoration

      Article
    On 4 March 1856, during a debate in the House of Lords on a motion to form a ‘Gallery of National Portraits', the Conservative peer Earl Stanhope quoted Thomas Carlyle's view that ‘one of the most primary wants [of the historian is] to secure a bodily likeness of the personage...
    Robert Peel: Portraiture and political commemoration

  • Seeing beyond the frame

      Teaching History article
    History teachers frequently show pupils visual images and often expect pupils to interrogate such images as evidence. But confusions arise and opportunities are missed when pupils do this without guidance on how to ‘read’ the image systematically and how to place it in context. Barbara Ormond gives a detailed account...
    Seeing beyond the frame

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... migration and empire

      A Polychronicon of the past
    In autumn 2019, Kara Walker’s monumental sculpture, Fons Americanus, went on display in the Tate Modern, offering a poignant, troubling challenge to national commemoration. Walker depicts not the lingering vestiges of imperial glory, but sharks, tears, and haunted memories. She brings history into conversation with its contemporary legacies and engages...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... migration and empire

  • The Historian 12

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: A Prisoner's Pursuits: the Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, Gordon R. Batho 10 Record Linkage: Sir Lewis Harcourt and the Foreign Office Telegrams July 1914, Keith Wilson 13 Update: English Politics and Society in the Eighteenth Century, Bill Speck 16 HUDG: Middle Age Spread, John Boume
    The Historian 12

  • The Historian 13

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Fiume 1919, John di Folco  6 Feature: Republicanism in Victorian Britain, Robert Woodall 10 Update: The Origins of the Cold War, John Young 14 Education Forum: Michael Biddiss, Alex Cowan
    The Historian 13

  • The Historian 21

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Sick people, health and doctors in Georgian England - Roy Porter 7 Portfolio: The life and death of Colonel Blimp - Kevin Jefferys 10 Update: The French Revolution - Norman Hampson 24 Education Forum: Pushing for the past - Nicholas Reeves
    The Historian 21

  • The Historian 23

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Women in the Two World Wars, Penny Summer 10 Update: Modern India; Imperialism and Nationalism 1880 1947, Judith M Brown 13 Record Linkage: Heraldry and the Historian, Adrian Ailes 20 Anniversary: 150 Years of Photography
    The Historian 23

  • The Historian 24

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Napoleon and the French Revolution, Irvne Collins 10 Update: The Causes of the Second World War, Michael Dockrill 13 Education Forum: Time for Change at 'A' Level, John Fines 14 Museums: Working From Museums, Gail Durbin 18 Portfolio: Medieval Emperors and the English Kings, Dorothy Meade
    The Historian 24

  • The Historian 29

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Gods of Roman Britain, David Shotter 9 Update: Slavery and the Plantation System in the British Caribbean: The example of Jamaica, Verene A. Shepherd 12 In Memoriam: Dr Esmond de Beer 
    The Historian 29

  • 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

  • The Historian 36

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 3 Feature: Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier, Margaret Walsh 10 Update: Medieval Women, Patricia Skinner 13 Anniversary: Tunnel Under the Thames, R.A. Buchanan 18 Project: Interviews with Historians, Pat Thane
    The Historian 36

  • The Historian 37

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 3 Feature: Byron, Romanticism and the Independence of Greece, Julian Robinson  9 Update: Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1500-1707, Michael Lynch 12 Education Forum: Museum Education and the National Currculum, Maureen Lochrie
    The Historian 37

  • The Historian 40

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: China's Communist Revolution, Michael Dillon 10 Update: The Nobility in Early Modern Europe, H.M. Scott 13 Record Linkage: New Dictionary of National Biography, Colin Matthew 16 Anniversary: William Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode, H.T. Dickinson 18 Biography: Prince Arthur and the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir 1882, Noble Frankland 22...
    The Historian 40

  • The Historian 41

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles 3 Feature: Greek Oracles and Greek Democracy, Hugh Bowden 9 Update: Dark Age Italy, Ross Balzaretti 12 Education Forum: The Young Historian Scheme, John Fines 28 Spotlight: The Vacation School, Hull
    The Historian 41

  • The Historian 44

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles 3 Heroes of the Cuban Revolution: Martí, Maceo and Gómez - Joseph Smith 9 Update: Nationalism and National Cults in England and on the Continent between the Tenth and the Twelfth Centuries - Emma Mason 12 Biography: Churchill's Wartime Radio Rival - David Smith 16 Record Linkage: The Scottish Architect...
    The Historian 44