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                                                                                Captain Thomas and the North West Passage
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Classic Pamphlet
                                                                            
                                    In the early years of the seventeenth century Englishmen vigorously prosecuted the search for a North West Passage to the Pacific. The fabled wealth of India and Cathay beckoned to them as enticingly as it had attracted their sixteenth century predecessors. The foundation of the English East India Company in...
                                    Captain Thomas and the North West Passage
                                 
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                                                                                Women and the Politics of the Parish in England
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Historian article
                                                                            
                                    Petticoat Politicians: Women and the Politics of the Parish in England
The history of women voting in Britain is familiar to many. 2013 marked the centenary of the zenith of the militant female suffrage movement, culminating in the tragic death of Emily Wilding Davison, crushed by the King's horse at...
                                    Women and the Politics of the Parish in England
                                 
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                                                                                Polychronicon 155: Interpreting the Origins of of the First World War
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Teaching History feature
                                                                            
                                    As I write this article I have before me my grandfather's Victory Medal from the First World War. It has inscribed on the reverse side, ‘The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919'. The absolute certainty of such a justification for Britain's entry into the war seems somewhat hollow as we approach...
                                    Polychronicon 155: Interpreting the Origins of of the First World War
                                 
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                                                                                Podcast: Ancient Greece & Rome - Similarities and Differences
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Ancient Greece & Rome
                                                                            
                                    In this podcast Dr Ursula Rothe & Dr Colin Andrews of the Open University discuss how social, moral and religious life in Rome differed from that of ancient Greece.
                                    Podcast: Ancient Greece & Rome - Similarities and Differences
                                 
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                                                                                Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    ‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home': exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative
Paula Worth draws on three professional traditions in history education in order to build a lesson sequence on the Crusades for her Year 7s. First,...
                                    Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative
                                 
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                                                                                Podcast Series: Women in Ancient Greece & Rome
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Multipage Article
                                                                            
                                    In this series of podcasts Dr Richard Hawley of Royal Holloway, University of London looks at the history of women in Ancient Greece and Rome.
                                    Podcast Series: Women in Ancient Greece & Rome
                                 
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                                                                                Podcast Series: Ancient Greek Myths and Legends
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    In this podcast Dr Fiona Hobden of the University of Liverpool looks at what Greek myths and legends can tell us about how the early ancient Greeks saw their world.
                                    Podcast Series: Ancient Greek Myths and Legends
                                 
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                                                                                Religion and Politics 1559-1642
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Classic Pamphlet
                                                                            
                                    It is a truism to say that religion and politics were inextricably mixed in the seventeenth century.
"So natural" wrote Richard Hooker,"is the union of religion with Justice, that we may boldly deem there is neither where both are not" Sir John Eliot observed that in the House of Commons...
                                    Religion and Politics 1559-1642
                                 
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                                                                                Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Question: Who is buried in the box?
Seeking a new and exciting way to introduce my Year 7 students to history, I looked to a practical solution. Ian Dawson once used a Thinking History exercise where students looked at the idea of ‘layers of history'. It was useful in structuring...
                                    Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?
                                 
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                                                                                Podcast Series: William I to Henry VII
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Multipage Article
                                                                            
                                    An HA Podcasted History featuring Professor David Bates and Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, Dr Philip Morgan of Keele University, Professor Mark Ormrod of the University of York, Dr James Davis of Queens University Belfast, Professor Michael Hicks of the University of Winchester, Dr Sean Cunningham of...
                                    Podcast Series: William I to Henry VII
                                 
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                                                                                Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                                                                Medieval Trade Routes
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    The subject of Medieval Trade Routes presents certain difficulties at the outset. There is no clear definition of the word ‘medieval' and, whatever period is chosen, it is obvious that trade routes within that period would be unlikely always to follow the same direction or to be of the same...
                                    Medieval Trade Routes
                                 
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                                                                                Home Rule for Ireland - For and against
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    At a time when the United Kingdom continues to review its internal constitutional arrangements, Matthew Kelly explores how this constitutional debate can be traced back to Gladstone's decision to promote Home Rule for Ireland and how these proposals evolved over time and were challenged.
Irish political history decisively entered a...
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                                                                                Global learning and development education
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Global learning and development education in the secondary school 
Development education is an approach to learning about global and development issues through recognising the importance of linking people's lives throughout the world. It encourages critical examination of global issues and awareness of the impact that individuals can have on these. ...
                                    Global learning and development education
                                 
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                                                                                Polychronicon 146: Interpreting the history of 'big history'
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    In recent decades, a novel approach to history has emerged, called ‘big history', which provides an overview of all of human history, embedded within biological, geological and astronomical history covering the grandest sweep of time and space, from the beginning of the universe to life on Earth here and now....
                                    Polychronicon 146: Interpreting the history of 'big history'
                                 
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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
                                 
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                                                                                Teaching students to argue for themselves - KS3
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Keeley Richards secured a fundamental shift in some of her Year 13 students' ability to argue. She did it by getting them to engage more fully with the practice of argument itself, as enacted by four historians. At the centre of her lesson sequence was an original activity: the historians'...
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                                                                                Period, place and mental space
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period
What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by...
                                    Period, place and mental space
                                 
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                                                                                The League of Nations
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    It is common to see the failure of the League of Nations in its inability to stand up to the crises of the inter-war years.Peter Raffo shows that the League was flawed from the start. Never more than a voluntary association of sovereign states hoping to create ‘an atmosphere capable...
                                    The League of Nations
                                 
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                                                                                Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Patterns of genocide: can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?
Alison Stephen, who has wrestled for many years with the challenges of teaching emotional and controversial history within a multiethnic school setting, relished the opportunity to link her school's teaching of the Holocaust with a comparative study of other genocides....
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                                                                                Year 9 face up to historical difference
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference
Teaching her Key Stage 3 students in Essex, Catherine McCrory was struck by the stark contrast between their enthusiasm for studying diverse histories of Africa and the Americas and their reluctance to...
                                    Year 9 face up to historical difference
                                 
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                                                                                Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    This pamphlet provides an interesting approach to a historical topic which has been too frequently covered from a single viewpoint. The pamphlet delivers a thoroughly Scottish approach to the nature of the 1707 Union and the changing nature of Scotland in the following centuries. It highlights the disparity of the...
                                    Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707
                                 
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                                                                                War, Society and the State in Early Modern Europe
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Lecture from the 2012 HA Annual Conference 
Frank Tallett: Fellow in History at the University of Reading and former Head of its School of Humanities
Until recently, military history has largely been concerned with ‘badges and buttons', an approach that stressed tactics, strategy and weapons. The so-called New Military History has sought...
                                    War, Society and the State in Early Modern Europe
                                 
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                                                                                How students make sense of the historical concepts of change, continuity and development
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    First order knowledge and understanding, relating to the ‘stuff' of history, is, of course, absolutely fundamental to the development of children's historical knowledge and understanding. However, as Frances Blow shows, in a contribution to a series of articles exploring second order concepts in history published in Teaching History by Peter...
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                                                                                Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    A case study in professional thinking
Michael Fordham examines the evolution of his own practice as an example of how history teachers draw upon collective, professional knowledge constructed by other history teachers in journals, books, conferences and seminars. Fordham explains how a  particular Year 7 enquiry examining historical change from the...
                                    Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking