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  • Roman Crime and Punishment

      Podcast
    The Romans are known as forward thinkers who were well advanced for their time.  But did they manage to conquer crime? Listen to this podcast to find out.
    Roman Crime and Punishment

  • Crime & Punishment - Factors and Time Periods

      Podcast
    The history of crime and punishment across time spreads over 2500 years. It is really important that you have a way of making sense of this. In this podcast you will hear how the course has been divided into time periods, and learn about the main factors that affect crime,...
    Crime & Punishment - Factors and Time Periods

  • Royal Women: Queen Anne, Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II

      Royal Women
    In June 2012 the Historical Association and Historic Royal Palaces joined forces to offer a fantastic CPD opportunity in line with the Queen's diamond jubilee. Two CPD events around the theme of Royal Women charted the private histories of queens of the past from within the walls of their palaces. What...
    Royal Women: Queen Anne, Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II

  • Muslim Rescuers of the Holocaust CPD

      CPD Unit
    This CPD unit focuses on the experience of Muslim rescuers during the Holocaust and the Second World War. It was written by Andrew Wrenn, Cambridgeshire Humanities Advisor, to complement  another unit published earlier on this website called Muslim Tommies which dealt with the experience of Muslim soldiers fighting for Britain...
    Muslim Rescuers of the Holocaust CPD

  • We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

      We Also Served
    In search of the story of British Asian Veterans of World War Two.‘We also served' is a moving short film, which follows pupils from Beardwood and St Bede's high schools as they research why the contribution of these soldiers is not more widely recognised.
    We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

  • The Transport Revolution 1750-1830

      Classic Pamphlet
    The period 1750-1830, traditionally marking the classical industrial revolution, achieved in Great Britain what Professor Rostow has called the economy's "take-off into self-sustained growth". A revolution in transportation was part of the complex of changes - industrial, agricultural, mercantile and commercial - occurring roughly concurrently.The impetus to transport change is...
    The Transport Revolution 1750-1830

  • Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

      Teaching History article
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society Elizabeth Carr writes here about a new scheme of work she developed to teach students about diversity in Victorian society. When dealing with a concept such as diversity, it can be easy for students to slip into stereotypes based...
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

  • The Thirteenth Century Industrial Scene in England

      Classic Pamphlet
    This essay forms part of a collection of three essays on Thirteenth Century England by Professor R. F. Treharne (President of the HA 1958-61). These were originally delivered as lectures and were later edited for publication by Dr C. H. Knowles. This essay looks at the industrial scene in England during...
    The Thirteenth Century Industrial Scene in England

  • The Thirteenth Century Rural Scene in England

      Classic Pamphlet
    This essay forms part of a collection of three essays on Thirteenth Century England by Professor R. F. Treharne (President of the HA 1958-61). These were originally delivered as lectures and were later edited for publication by Dr C. H. Knowles. This essay looks at the rural scene in England during...
    The Thirteenth Century Rural Scene in England

  • The Thirteenth Century Political Scene in England

      Classic Pamphlet
    This essay forms part of a collection of three essays on Thirteenth Century England by Professor R. F. Treharne (President of the HA 1958-61). These were originally delivered as lectures and were later edited for publication by Dr C. H. Knowles. This essay looks at the political scene in England during...
    The Thirteenth Century Political Scene in England

  • How my interest in what I don't teach has informed my teaching and enriched my students' learning

      Teaching History article
    How my interest in what I don't teach has informed my teaching and  enriched my students' learning Flora Wilson argues here for the importance of maintaining a fascination with history as an academic subject for experienced, practising history teachers. Just as medical professionals keep their knowledge up to date by...
    How my interest in what I don't teach has informed my teaching and enriched my students' learning

  • Kristallnacht

      Historian article
    Why Reichskristallnacht? In The Third Reich Michael Burleigh writes: ‘We should be cautious in seeing spontaneity where frequency suggests instigation from a central source.' He comments on ‘a dialectic between "spontaneous" grassroot actions and "followup" state sponsored measures.' These remarks relate to 1935, the time of the Nuremberg Laws [the...
    Kristallnacht

  • Revising the Elizabethans

      Revising the Elizabethans
    In this series of podcasts Andy Harmsworth offers some advice and suggestions to help you when revising the Elizabethans for the GCSE History Exam.
    Revising the Elizabethans

  • Roman Britain

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet provides an introduction to Roman Britain, examines the political history, the institutions of Roman Britain, the economic background and the end of Roman Britain. IntroductionThe Roman conquest and occupation of Britain has long been taken as the conventional starting point of English History, and there is a conventional...
    Roman Britain

  • CRIC Research Project

      Link
    Recent conflicts in Europe, as well as abroad, have brought the deliberate destruction of the heritage of others, as a means of inflicting pain, to the foreground. With this has come the realisation that the processes involved and thus the long-term consequences are poorly understood. Heritage reconstruction is not merely...
    CRIC Research Project

  • American West Depth Study Podcasts

      GCSE Topic Guide
    In this series of podcasts Dave Martin examines the American West. What is the American West depth study actually about?What can we learn from the parallel lives of Custer and Crazy Horse?Who was with Custer at the Little Big Horn?Why did the Plains Indians lose the struggle for the Great...
    American West Depth Study Podcasts

  • Medieval Medicine Podcast

      Medieval Medicine
    In this HA Podcast Ian Dawson looks at medicine during the medieval period.
    Medieval Medicine Podcast

  • Crime and Punishment Selected Articles

      Selected Articles
    Crime and Punishment - selected HA articles: Wanted, The Elusive Charlie Peace': A Sheffield Killer Of The 1870s As Popular Hero The 'Penny Dreadful' Occult and Witches Kett's Rebellion 1549 The Great Revolt of 1381
    Crime and Punishment Selected Articles

  • Polychronicon 145: Interpreting the history of the modern prison

      Teaching History feature
    On the morning of Sunday 24 January 1932 convicts paraded in the exercise yards at Dartmoor Convict Prison in Devon. Suddenly, inmates began to break ranks, encouraging others to do likewise. Some prisoners were shepherded into cell blocks by officers but control mechanisms quickly collapsed and the remaining inmates had...
    Polychronicon 145: Interpreting the history of the modern prison

  • The Undergrowth of History

      Classic Pamphlet
    We can do all kinds of things with the past - examine it analytically, or question whether it ever existed, or churn it up inside ourselves until it turns into personal experience. We can dream it as we lounge amidst a heap of ruins, or petrify it into a museum;...
    The Undergrowth of History

  • The Medieval Empire

      Classic Pamphlet
    The subject of this pamphlet is one that, by general consent, takes a central place in European history in the middle ages. The history of the Empire, it has often been said, is co-terminous with the history of western Christendom; and Lord Bryce long ago described it as a ‘universal...
    The Medieval Empire

  • Cyprus: another Middle East issue

      Historian article
    Although Cyprus, the third largest Mediterranean island, remained nominally under Turkish suzerainty until 1914, the British were established there after the 1878 Congress of Berlin. The idea then was that, from this base, Britain could protect Turkey against threats from Russia, while ensuring that the Turks reformed their treatment of...
    Cyprus: another Middle East issue

  • Neville Chamberlain: Villain or Hero?

      Historian article
    Perhaps no other British figure of the twentieth century has been as vilified or as celebrated as Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940. In 1999, a BBC Radio 4 poll of prominent historians, politicians and commentators rated Chamberlain as one of the worst Prime Ministers of...
    Neville Chamberlain: Villain or Hero?

  • The Coming of War in 1939

      Classic Pamphlet
    I. The Legacy of Versailles The Outbreak of a second world war on 1 September 1939 might have been expected to produce in due course a great controversy on ‘war guilt'. But there has been nothing comparable with the debate which took place during the 1920s on the 1914 issues. The...
    The Coming of War in 1939

  • The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades

      Classic Pamphlet
    This resource is a pamphlet titled ‘The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades’ and written by R. J. H. Jenkins in 1953. As such, some of the scholarship has been updated since then, although it can provide useful historiography. It is not strange that there should in recent...
    The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades