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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
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The Historian 163: Out now
The magazine of the Historical Association
Read The Historian 163: Ukraine
The third year of Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine is slowly drawing to a close, with no end to it in sight. Putin’s decision to send troops into Ukraine in hope of a quick capitulation was, however, only the last stage of a longer process...
The Historian 163: Out now
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The Historian 153: Out now
The magazine of the Historical Association
Read The Historian 153: The Baltic
It once seemed natural for anyone leaving Britain to go south, rather than north. There were practical reasons for this. British tourists understandably wanted sunshine, and a sea they could swim in without first taking a deep breath: the Mediterranean provided both. If they...
The Historian 153: Out now
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Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 From the history of maths to the history of greatness: towards worthwhile cross-curricular study through the refinement of a scheme of work - Harry Fletcher-Wood (Read article)
16 The whole point of the thing: how nominalisation might develop students’ written...
Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning
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The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2
Journal
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research
Volume 2, Number 2 July 2002
Letting the Past Speak
Contributor
John Fines (1938-1999)
An obituary by Jon Nichol 3
Introduction 5
1 History In Schools
1. What is History for in Schools? 6
2. The Respect that is Owed to the...
The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2
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Teaching History 77
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 History, Autonomy and Education or History Helps Your Students Be Autonomous Five Ways (with apologies to PAL dog food) - Peter Lee
11 Theory and Practice Essay: The Use of Resources and Teaching Aids in the Teaching of History, with particular reference to Year Eight - Elizabeth Danks
16...
Teaching History 77
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Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
08 Unpacking the enquiry puzzle – Ben Arscott (Read article)
16 ‘What’s the point of learning history?’ Establishing a dialogue with Year 9 about why environmental history matters – Alex Benger (Read article)
26 Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote...
Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys
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Teaching History 197: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 197: Public History
Public history is history facing outwards: engaging with the public sphere beyond the ivory tower of research and scholarship in universities. In a recent essay entitled ‘Glorious memory’, Hicks writes of ‘an explosion of new public histories’ in recent decades, ‘led by communities from...
Teaching History 197: Out now
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Cathars and Castles in Medieval France
Historian article
Almost exactly 800 years ago, in September 1213, a decisive battle was fought at Muret, about ten miles south-west of Toulouse. King Peter II of Aragon, fighting with southern allies from Toulouse and elsewhere, faced an army largely made up of northern French crusaders who had invaded the region at the...
Cathars and Castles in Medieval France
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Teaching History 198: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys
Reflections on the process of curriculum design in history have prompted many colourful metaphors. While some point to the opportunities for creativity inherent in the task, others leave little doubt about the mental exertion required for effective planning on different scales. Michael Riley offered...
Teaching History 198: Out now
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Teaching History 19
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
The Genesis of the History Teaching Film - B. J. Elliott, 3
Film and the History Teacher - J. Duckworth, 8
A Select List of Feature Films of use in the Teaching of History - T. Gwynn, 11
New Approaches to the Study and Teaching...
Teaching History 19
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From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket
Teaching History article
Tim Jenner was working on a causation enquiry with his Year 7 students when he noticed that weak conceptions of change were limiting their ability to produce powerful and period-sensitive arguments. He therefore decided to digress into a temporary but explicit focus on analysing historical change. He created a deceptively...
From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket
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A tale of two Turings
Historian article
Among the posthumous attempts to celebrate his scientific importance, alongside recognition of the unwarranted injustices to which he was subjected, two important statues to Alan Turing are highlighted by Dave Martin.
A tale of two Turings
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Henry VIII
Classis Pamphlet
What shall we think of Henry VIII? However that question has been or may be answered, one reply is apparently impossible. Not even the most resolute believer in deterministic interpretations of history seems able to escape the spell of that magnificent figure; I know of no book on the age...
Henry VIII
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A tale of two statues
Historian article
Dave Martin relates how the statue of one of our imperial ‘heroes’ prompted a campaign to have it taken down while the statue of another imperial ‘hero’ prompted a fund-raising campaign for its repair.
As the tide of Empire ebbed across the globe vestiges of British rule remained, some great,...
A tale of two statues
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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
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Primary History 102
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
05 Editorial (Read article)
06 Developing historical understanding across all areas of the EYFS framework – Helen Crawford (Read article)
10 Using learning outside the classroom at historic sites to explore British history units – Paul Bracey (Read article)
16 Britain on pause: remembering the 1926 General Strike – Kate Rigby (Read article)...
Primary History 102
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The Exclusion Crisis (1679–81)
Historian article
The Exclusion Crisis in the reign of King Charles II was a fierce struggle over the issue of whether the King’s Catholic brother James should be the heir to the throne. At the same time, circumstances promoted an outpouring of polemical pamphlets on a massive scale. Here Gregory Gifford examines...
The Exclusion Crisis (1679–81)
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The Historian 20
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, C N.L Brooke
10 Update: The Industrial Revolution, John J. Mason
13 Local History: Laxton: England's Last Open Field Village, John Beckett
17 Education Forum: The School History Question, Roger Hennessey
The Historian 20
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Dig for sustainability!
Primary History article
Paul Spear uses World War II government advertising strategies such as ‘Make do and Mend’ to consider how to promote modern campaigns related to sustainability. He investigates what the wartime government did to engage with the population as a whole and generate national action. By analysing how images were used...
Dig for sustainability!
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What’s in your pocket, Peg?
Primary History article
What’s in your pocket, Peg? is a story book about Jersey which experienced German occupation throughout most of World War II. We wanted to create a book that appealed to children across different primary age groups, helping them to imagine the first-hand life experiences of a child alive at that time. The...
What’s in your pocket, Peg?
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The Historian 30
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Images: Catherine II of Russia, Enlightened Absolutism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Roger Bartlett
10 Update: Disraeli, Ian Machin
12 Portfolio: The Secret 'Iron Tongs' of Midwifery, Joyce Rushen
14 Terylene, Rex Collins
16 Local History: The Ordnance Survey: A Quick Guide for Historians, Richard Oliver
The Historian 30
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'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30
Historian article
During the years from 1826 to 1830 Benjamin Disraeli went through the slough of despond. His first major biographer,William Flavelle Monypenny, observed the ‘clouds of despondency which were now settling upon Disraeli's mind'. In his magisterial life of the great tory leader Robert Blake commented that ‘after completing Part II...
'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30
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International Journal 14.2: Editorial review
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017ISSN: 14472-9474
Introduction: Thinking historically – syntactic ‘know how’ and substantive ‘know that’ knowledge
As an academic discipline History has two dimensions: the ‘know how’ syntactic or procedural knowledge of the skills and processes of ‘Doing History’ and...
International Journal 14.2: Editorial review
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The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated.
This article reports some surprising gender-based trends indicated by a small scale piece of classroom research looking into incidental responses of Year 6 pupils to the teaching of Study Unit 11b (Britain Since...
The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany
