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  • Women in the Tramway Industry 1914-1919

      Article
    Rosemary Thacker writes about one unusual area of expansion of war-time work for women in the Great War.
    Women in the Tramway Industry 1914-1919

  • Teaching History 24

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 3 `Public and Private Lives: Germany 1914 to 1939' - Diana Devlin, 3 The Perils of Clio in France - Clive Church, 7 Trends in History Teaching in France - L. 0. Ward, 12 How to Evaluate a History Department - John Higham, 14 Constraints in...
    Teaching History 24

  • Teaching History 21

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3 Classified Advertisements, 8 An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9 Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15 Teaching the Varieties of...
    Teaching History 21

  • A Mid-Tudor Crisis?

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through the Mid-Tudor period focusing on foreign affairs and finance, the Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland, the risings of 1549, coups and commissions 1549-53, Edwardian Protestantism success and failure, Mary and the Catholic Restoration, the Marian Administration and the Spanish Marriage.
    A Mid-Tudor Crisis?

  • Disembarking the religious rollercoaster

      Teaching History article
    Sarah Jackson-Buckley and Jessie Phillips found themselves perennially dissatisfied with the outcomes of their teaching of the Protestant Reformation. Determined that students should take away a sense of the momentous political and social consequences of the Reformation, they turned to historical scholarship, and to the work of other history teachers on...
    Disembarking the religious rollercoaster

  • The Irish Confederate War and the Cromwellian Conquest

      Early Modern Irish History
    In this podcast Professor Sean Connolly of Queen's University Belfast examines the Eleven Years War, its' context within the English Civil War and alliances between differing Catholic and Protestant sides.
    The Irish Confederate War and the Cromwellian Conquest

  • Britain & Ireland in the early 19th Century

      19th Century Irish History
    In this podcast Professor Peter Gray of Queen's University Belfast looks at the origins of the demands for a change to the constitutional relationship between Britain and Ireland in the early 19th century and the factors that were leading to division between the Catholic and Protestant communities in this period.
    Britain & Ireland in the early 19th Century

  • The Reformation: The Response of the Holy Roman Empire

      The History of Christianity
    In this podcast Dr Henry Cohn of Warwick University takes you through the importance of relations with the state for the survival and growth of Protestantism, division and the Peasants War, the rise of state control over the Church, the response of the Emperor and the limitations of imperial power,...
    The Reformation: The Response of the Holy Roman Empire

  • Martin Luther and John Calvin

      The History of Christianity
    In this podcast Professor Peter Marshall of Warwick University takes you through the importance of Martin Luther to the Protestant Reformation, the implications of Luther's teachings, how Luther's teachings were interpreted and mis-interpreted, the need for support from the political authorities, internal protestant disputes, the rise of Calvin and a...
    Martin Luther and John Calvin

  • A Tale of Two Chancellors: The Ineffectual Reformation in Elizabethan Staffordshire

      Historian article
    The Elizabethan Reformation in Staffordshire had a shallow seedbed. The radical reformers of the 1540s had greeted the conversion of the county with a mixture of high hopes and hyperbole. The East Anglian preacher and disciple of Latimer, Thomas Becon, wrote a treatise The Iewel of Ioye urging that itinerant...
    A Tale of Two Chancellors: The Ineffectual Reformation in Elizabethan Staffordshire

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations

      Article
    The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around the world? ...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations

  • ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing

      Historian article
    As the value of music education is again a topic of societal debate, Tudor composer William Byrd, the four hundredth anniversary of whose death is celebrated this year, was a powerful advocate of singing in early modern England, writes Katherine Butler. Tudor composer William Byrd (c.1540–1623) is recognised today not only...
    ‘Since singing is so good a thing’: William Byrd on the benefits of singing

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 155: Similarity & Difference

      Teaching History feature
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 155: Similarity & Difference

  • The Northern Ireland Question 1886-1986

      Classic Pamphlet
    The nature of the rights of majorities and minorities is one of the most intractable of the issues raised by the Northern Ireland question, especially since much depends on definitions. Ulster Protestants are a majority in that province but a minority in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, while Catholics,...
    The Northern Ireland Question 1886-1986

  • Robert Grosseteste (c. 1170-1253)

      Historian article
    Jack Cunningham considers a medieval philosopher, the significance of whose ideas has grown in importance through the centuries. An appreciation of Grosseteste the thinker has not always been at its appropriate level during the almost 800 years since his death. If historians have paid attention to the great man this ...
    Robert Grosseteste (c. 1170-1253)

  • The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation

      Classic Pamphlet
    The society of Jesus, formally approved by Pope Paul III in his bull Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae of September 1540, was one of many new religious orders of men and women - such as Barnabites, Capuchins, Oratorians, Piarists and Vincentians among the male orders, and Daughters and Sisters of Charity, Ursulines,...
    The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation

  • History Painting in England: Benjamin West, Philip James de Loutherbourg, J.M.W. Turner

      Historian article
    History Painting is defined in Grove's Dictionary of Art as the ‘depiction of several persons engaged in an important or memorable action, usually taken from a written source.' Though History Painters as important as Rubens and Van Dyke worked - in Van Dyke's case for nine years - in England,...
    History Painting in England: Benjamin West, Philip James de Loutherbourg, J.M.W. Turner

  • Francis I and Absolute Monarchy

      Classic Pamphlet
    Francis I of France reign lasted for more than thirty years and coincided with movements as significant as the Renaissance and the Reformation. Text-books are apt to gloss over the domestic history of France before the outbreak of the Wars of Religion and convey the impression that Francis was more...
    Francis I and Absolute Monarchy

  • The Oxford Movement and Anglican Ritualism

      Classic Pamphlet
    The English Reformation of the Sixteenth century had been a compromise, both politically and theologically. The administrative framework of the medieval church, with its system of church courts, private patronage, pluralism, the social and financial gulf between the lower and higher clergy, its inadequacy of clerical education and its hierarchical...
    The Oxford Movement and Anglican Ritualism

  • 'The Mouth of Hell': Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, C.1660-c.1800

      Article
    Colin Haydon explores religious intolerance and conflict in an English village. In recent years, many historians have explored the subject of religious intolerance, and particularly anti-Catholic sentiment, in early modern and modern England. The political allegiance of ‘Papists’ was suspect: was not their allegiance to the Pope – to ‘another...
    'The Mouth of Hell': Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, C.1660-c.1800

  • Regional Aspects of the Scottish Reformation

      Classic Pamphlet
    Reformation Perspective In recent years studies of the Scottish Reformation have undergone a marked change. Religion is seldom advanced as the sole mainspring of the events of 1560 and explanations have been increasingly sought in political and economic terms. On the political side growing opposition to French influence within Scotland...
    Regional Aspects of the Scottish Reformation

  • Catherine de' Medici and the French Wars of Religion

      Article
    R. J. Knecht suggests that the 'Black Legend' may not be quite as unfair to Catherine as her defenders have argued. Few historical figures have aroused as much passionate controversy as Catherine de’ Medici who was queen of France from 1547 until 1559 and several times regent before her death...
    Catherine de' Medici and the French Wars of Religion

  • Reformation

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The planning of an English church building in 1530, and what happened to it in the period of the Reformation in the 1540s, provides an excellent focus for the children to learn about what the Reformation meant to Tudor men and...
    Reformation

  • The Spanish Armada

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This is a highly interactive and stimulating simulation for years 3 and 4, and a very effective way of involving children in a range of issues. We introduced the story of the Armada, outlining the main parties involved and the nature...
    The Spanish Armada

  • History 346

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online Articles...
    History 346