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  • Role Play 1: The Society Game

      Teaching History Article
    Applicable to Britain 1066-1500, Britain 1500-1750, Britain 1750-1900, and many aspects of GCSE and AS/A2 courses. The version given in full here is for use in a study of Victorian Britain. This tackles the troublesome concept of relative status in a changing society. Exactly what is it that bestows status...
    Role Play 1: The Society Game
  • Polychronicon 131: At your leisure

      Teaching History feature
    Leisure time - like time itself - is fluid, and keeps changing its social meanings. From a ‘serious' high political perspective there is no history of leisure and leisure is trivial. Such perspectives have long lost their grip on the historical imagination, of course, and we have had histories of...
    Polychronicon 131: At your leisure
  • Polychronicon 126: Stonehenge

      Teaching History feature
    Secondary history ought to pay more attention to stones: 1. they are accessible, logistically and educationally, and highly instructive. The Neolithic is everywhere, and generally speaking, free2. venture outside the classroom, into real space or cyberspace, and you stumble into it eventually.3. Archaeological interpretation is an accessible way into aspects...
    Polychronicon 126: Stonehenge
  • 'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Helena Stride shows how the Imperial War Museum responded to criticism that insufficient attention had been paid to the contribution of black and Asian people to Britain’s wars. She focuses on one of two resource-packs produced by the Museum, which highlights the experience of Britain’s colonial peoples,...
    'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War