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Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
Lives of medieval women
What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives?
Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four who did: Marie de France,...
Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
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Recorded webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America
Article
Any study of the intercultural relationships between the Indigenous peoples of North America and British settlers usually focuses on the differences that resulted in disputes and violence. However, on closer examination, the interaction also involved the exchange of ideas and the forging of alliances, which required diplomacy and respect for...
Recorded webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America
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Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals
Article
The religious wars of the Crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence.
In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores...
Virtual Branch Recording: Crusader Criminals
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Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: The Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V
History journal blog
This blog post and interview complement the first view publication of the author's History journal article: ‘Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: the Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V’.
The disappearance in 1483 of King Edward V and his brother Richard, duke of York - the 'Princes in the Tower' -...
Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: The Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V
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Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949
Diaries and Personal Experiences
In this talk Professor Henrietta Harrison uses diary records to think about the experience of living through the revolution in China in 1949, focussing on what it meant to Chinese people, how they learned about its practices and ideology, and how this changed their lives - whether they were radical intellectuals returning...
Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949
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Virtual Branch Recording: Shylock's Venice
The remarkable history of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
This is the story of the Venice Ghetto, the corner of the city where Jews were exiled; free to walk the streets by day, locked behind gates and walls at night. Yet, gates and walls notwithstanding, from its establishment in 1516 until the fall of Venice in 1798, the ghetto...
Virtual Branch Recording: Shylock's Venice
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Virtual Branch Recording: From Pirates to Princes Normans in Eleventh Century Europe
Article
Normandy originated from a grant of land to Rollo, a Viking leader, in the early tenth century. By the end of that century Normans were to be found in southern Italy, then in Britain and, at the end of the eleventh century, in the near East on the First Crusade....
Virtual Branch Recording: From Pirates to Princes Normans in Eleventh Century Europe
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Virtual Branch Recording: The East India Company and Empire
Foundations and Memory
What can the early history of the English East India Company tell us about the foundations of the British Empire, and where does that history sit within current debates about Britain’s imperial legacy? In this session Mark Williams offers a timely insight into the history of one of the most significant...
Virtual Branch Recording: The East India Company and Empire
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Film: China's Good War
How World War II is shaping a new nationalism
In this lecture Professor Mitter uses film and other propaganda works to explore how key events of global history are being represented in China to develop a different understanding of its own past. The talk addresses a number of the factors for this change in how China is reflecting on...
Film: China's Good War
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Film: Write your own historical fiction
Webinar
Film: Write your own historical fiction
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On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers
At the HA, we understand the importance of creating the next generation of history students who can not only write about history, but who can also effectively communicate their thinking through oracy. Current academic research highlights the importance of oracy for learning and the close relationship between being able to...
On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
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How to Read Local Archives 1550-1700
Classic Pamphlet
The aim of this pamphlet is to encourage those interested in English history, especially university and school teachers, trainee teachers, and tutors of English and local history courses and classes, to teach themselves and their students how to read the last of the pre-italic handwritings, if they are not familiar...
How to Read Local Archives 1550-1700
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History and Journalism (1): Kristallnacht - How studying history can help with a career as an investigative journalist
History & Careers Unit 1
The aim of this enquiry is to show students that a history education teaches many of the skills that are vital if they want to pursue and career as a journalist.
History and Journalism (1): Kristallnacht - How studying history can help with a career as an investigative journalist
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Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
HA online course for primary and secondary teachers
The topic of empire lends itself ideally to a material approach – the objects often provide the opportunity to bring in indigenous voices to our study of the imperial past, while our classroom experience has shown that objects provide a powerful channel through which to access complex and sometimes uncomfortable...
Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
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Welcome back to a new school year
Information
Welcome back to a new school year
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Welcome back to a new school year
Information
Welcome back to a new school year
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An Introduction to Primary History
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Primary History is the only dedicated magazine for history coordinators and subject leaders at primary level and is distributed to over 2,000 of our members every term (February, May and October). Subscribers include teachers, PGCE students, schools and school librarians.
Become an HA Primary Member for subscription to Primary History and...
An Introduction to Primary History
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Primary History 18
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
7 The Cabot Voyages and Atlantic Exploration under the Tudors - Peter Fleming
8 Discovering Cabot's Bristol - Kieron Costello
12 Reviews
16 History Matters
17 Lessons from History for Primary Schools - Roy Hughes
19 Primary History resources
Primary History 18
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Primary History 2
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
5 Back to Worrying – Paul Noble
5 History Update – NCC and SEAC
6 In My Opinion – Pat Hughes
7 Evacuation Day – Dave Martin and Andy Cobb
9 Televising the Tudors and Stuarts – Nick Whines
10 Conference Report – Sue Lynn
11 Hands on Experience –...
Primary History 2
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Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history
Teaching History feature
Julian Critchley demonstrates how role play can be used to explain military history.
Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history
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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
