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  • The end of the Cold War with a personal perspective

      Primary History article
    This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today The beginning of the 1990s, just as this publication was...
    The end of the Cold War with a personal perspective

  • The Leeds Community History Project

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Nuffield Foundation-funded Leeds Community History Project brought together schools and older community members in the creation of community archives. It focused on articulating, valuing and recording the older generation's memories and knowledge. Its overarching...
    The Leeds Community History Project

  • Polychronicon 150: Interpreting the French Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    For most of the last two centuries, historical interpretations of the French Revolution have focused on its place in a grand narrative of modernity. For the most ‘counter-revolutionary' writers, the Revolution showed why modernity was to be resisted - destroying traditional institutions and disrupting all that was valuable in an...
    Polychronicon 150: Interpreting the French Revolution

  • Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum

      Primary History article
    Diogenes: WHITHER CREATIVITY?! A consideration of the article Creativity and the Primary Curriculum In June 2010 the journal Primary Headship included an article entitled Creativity and the Primary Curriculum which endeavoured to pull together a range of positions as to where the curriculum might be going in the immediate future. These...
    Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum

  • Piecing together the life and times of Charles I

      Historian article
    In this article, Chris R. Langley discusses the sources we use to reconstruct the life and times of Charles I. He explains how historians can use a wide range of sources in creative ways to understand different aspects of political, cultural and religious change in the mid-seventeenth century...
    Piecing together the life and times of Charles I

  • Capone's lost lair: The Lexington Hotel, Chicago

      Historian article
    Alphonse Gabriel Capone's bequest to history is a well-known catalogue of brutal racketeering, bootlegging, gangland murders (most infamously the St Valentine's Day Massacre of 14 February 1929) and the corruption of both American public morals and her elected officials, including the US Judiciary, Chicago mayoralty and city police force. Born...
    Capone's lost lair: The Lexington Hotel, Chicago

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

      Article
    Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades.  Why...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

  • Update: New approaches to the study of ancient history

      Historian feature
    This regular ‘update’ feature in The Historian looks at the latest developments in the study of various aspects of history. Here Steve Illingworth considers how scholars of ancient worlds have broadened their geographical approach in recent years, so that there is now greater diversity and less Euro-centricity in the subject matter being explored. The...
    Update: New approaches to the study of ancient history

  • ‘The Nazi Service’? The Prussian origins of the Luftwaffe

      Historian article
    The Luftwaffe had been a real achievement of Prussian military culture, but under poor Nazi leadership it degenerated into an ineffective fighting force, writes Stephen Graham.
    ‘The Nazi Service’? The Prussian origins of the Luftwaffe

  • Recruiting volunteers to fight in the First World War

      Historian article
    ‘Your Country Needs You’ and other posters are still remembered today as a prominent vehicle by which men were encouraged to fight in the First World War. Virtually absent from the literature, however, is analysis of the impact of thousands of recruitment meetings and their speakers. Robert Bullard explores the contribution...
    Recruiting volunteers to fight in the First World War

  • Film: Lenin and the birth of Soviet Russia

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Having changed the course of Russian society Lenin now needed to secure his Bolshevik survival. Unlike his predecessor he saw no need to continue with the Imperialist policies of a war in Europe. Territory could be sacrificed for control, but would promises and rhetoric be enough to govern among people...
    Film: Lenin and the birth of Soviet Russia

  • Film: Lenin, the 1905 Russian Revolution and WWI

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    The founders of Communism, Marx and Engels, had created a set of social structures and industrial developments that were believed necessary for Communism to be achieved. Imperial Russia did not fit these conditions and yet at the start of the twentieth century Russian revolutionaries were some of the most active...
    Film: Lenin, the 1905 Russian Revolution and WWI

  • Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience

      Teaching History feature
    Teaching a class of newly arrived immigrant teenagers from various backgrounds and ethnicities poses many interesting challenges: varied levels of schooling, varied levels of mastery in a new language, no common frame of reference, varied ways of understanding and making sense of the world and very varied ways of making...
    Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience

  • Polychronicon 149: Interpreting the Persian Wars

      Teaching History feature
    Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. So begins Robert Graves' poem, The Persian Version. The conceit of the poem is to invert the standard narrative of the Persian war of the early fifth century BC - a narrative drawn from Greek sources such as...
    Polychronicon 149: Interpreting the Persian Wars

  • Podcast Series: Russia and the USSR

      Russia and the USSR
    An HA Podcasted History of Russia and the USSR featuring Dr Beryl Williams, Dr Jonathan Davis of Anglia Ruskin University, Dr Edwin Bacon of Birkbeck University of London and Professor Peter Waldron of the University of East Anglia.
    Podcast Series: Russia and the USSR

  • Film: Making the most of HA trainee membership 

      Article
    Film: Making the most of HA trainee membership 

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch talk Professor Emma Smith provides a preview of her current research, which explores the lives and cultural undercurrents of Elizabethan England. What was influencing their cultural tastes and how much of it was new, or had it all been seen before? Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England

  • Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by Jeanne Theoharis’s biography of Rosa Parks, Ed Durbin initially planned to challenge the ‘fable’ that had been constructed around her life. He soon realised, however, that he wanted to take the opportunity to get ‘behind’ the fable and help his students understand how and why it had been constructed. Drawing...
    Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9

  • Why do we continue to study the Holocaust?

      Teaching History article
    Educators at Imperial War Museums (IWM) have been leading voices in Holocaust education since the Holocaust Exhibition opened at IWM London in June 2000. In this article, Clare Lawlor shares the design of IWM’s new Holocaust Learning Programme for schools, and the pedagogic research that underpinned the design process. The...
    Why do we continue to study the Holocaust?

  • The British Museum: Creative ICT for Kids

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. With school budgets as they are it is amazing that any primary schools can fund history trips to the British Museum [BM]. The education department of the British Museum [BM] is well aware of these constraints and tries to meet the...
    The British Museum: Creative ICT for Kids

  • The Interactive Whiteboard or Smart Board

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The interactive whiteboard [smartboard] has opened a pathway to explore sources and develop historical interest for children of all ages. It can be used in varied ways that allow a teacher to customise activities to match their intended outcomes. Support for this...
    The Interactive Whiteboard or Smart Board

  • History, ICT and the digital age

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Three things are important 1.Don't fall for the hype You are not a bad teacher if you are not using a lot of technology in history or any other area! Research evidence does not support many of the claims made about...
    History, ICT and the digital age

  • My Favourite History Place: The Great House of Mercers Creek

      Historian feature
    The tropical island of Antigua is a tourist heaven, but Gabriella Howell’s research into her family property, the Great House of Mercers Creek, shows how over the centuries, a varied history has shaped the experience of visitors and residents alike. From the enslaved and missionaries to admirals and film stars,...
    My Favourite History Place: The Great House of Mercers Creek

  • Recorded webinar: How does good storytelling serve disciplinary thinking?

      Webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
    Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history Session 1: How does good storytelling serve disciplinary thinking? Why is storytelling so crucial to the journey of the lesson? How does powerful storytelling make knowledge memorable meaningful? How can I get better at storytelling? How does storytelling help children wrestle with...
    Recorded webinar: How does good storytelling serve disciplinary thinking?

  • Film: Making the most of your primary membership

      Article
    Are you new to HA primary membership and not sure where to start? Want a taster of the benefits before you join? Or have you been a member for a while and want to make sure that you're using your membership to its full potential? In this recorded webinar we guide you through some essential benefits - from...
    Film: Making the most of your primary membership