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  • The Historian 30

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Images: Catherine II of Russia, Enlightened Absolutism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Roger Bartlett 10 Update: Disraeli, Ian Machin 12 Portfolio: The Secret 'Iron Tongs' of Midwifery, Joyce Rushen 14 Terylene, Rex Collins 16 Local History: The Ordnance Survey: A Quick Guide for Historians, Richard Oliver
    The Historian 30

  • The Historian 38

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: England in the 1690s: The Emergence of the Fiscal-Military State, W.A. Speck 10 Update: English Rural Society, 1750-1914, John Beckett 13 Portfolio: Propagandist Decrees and French Revolutionary Expansion, Michael Rapport 18 Local History: Britian's Industrial Heritage, Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson 22 Personalia: Marjorie Reeves
    The Historian 38

  • The Historian 35

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 3 Feature: Charlemagne, Stuart Airlie 10 Update: Did the Liberals still have a Future in 1914?, Geoffrey Searle 13 Record Linkage: Perceptions of the Public Record Office, Sarah Tyacke 16 Anniversary: The Massacre of Glencoe, Allan Macinnes 19 Report: History in Higher Education: A Change That's Purely Academic,...
    The Historian 35

  • Drama and story telling

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Everyone loves a story - especially a story well told. To encourage learning all primary teachers should consider the creative art of telling a story, as well as developing a variety of ways of interacting through...
    Drama and story telling

  • Recorded Webinar: African economic development in historical perspective

      Article
    Popular discussions of Africa often focus on the region’s relative poverty, and ask what role historical events like colonialism and the slave trade have played in shaping its development over time. For a long time, the absence of systematic data on African economies before c. 1960 meant these discussions were...
    Recorded Webinar: African economic development in historical perspective

  • Guy Fawkes in Manchester: The World of William Harrison Ainsworth

      Historian article
    Some of the most enduring myths in British history were created and perpetuated by novelists, despite the fact that the historical novel has long been relegated to the second division of the literary arts. Deeply unfashionable today, writers like Sir Walter Scott, Edward Bulwer Lytton and William Harrison Ainsworth were...
    Guy Fawkes in Manchester: The World of William Harrison Ainsworth

  • On-demand webinar: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachers

      Webinar series: AI in primary history
    Webinar series: AI in primary history Session 4: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachersPresenter: Dr Vanessa Cui, Dr Louise Wheatcroft, Dr Jordan Bird Generative AI offers incredible potential for resource creation for teachers, but the current dominant generative AI tools' core function is to be an agreeable, helpful assistant....
    On-demand webinar: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachers

  • Look again: teaching about disability in history

      Teaching History article
    After listening to a talk by historian Phillipa Vincent-Connolly and following this up with reading about disability in history, Alex Fairlamb examined her own department’s teaching to consider how effectively it included narratives of disabled people. This was the beginning of a productive journey. She concluded that much more needed to be...
    Look again: teaching about disability in history

  • Continuity in the treatment of mental health through time

      Teaching History article
    Where's the other ‘c'? Year 9 examine continuity in the treatment of mental health through time Helen Murray, Rachel Burney and Andrew Stacey-Chapman show how they strengthened three goals of their practice - secure knowledge, narrative shapes and conceptual analysis - by securing strong connection between them. The curricular focus...
    Continuity in the treatment of mental health through time

  • Podcast Series: British LGBTQ+ History

      Multipage Article
    In Part 4 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK since 1800 we focus on UK LGBTQ+ History. This series of podcasts features Dr Matt Cook and Dr Sean Brady of Birkbeck, University of London, Professor Sally R Munt of the University of Sussex and Dr Emma Vickers...
    Podcast Series: British LGBTQ+ History

  • Assessment of students' uses of evidence

      Teaching History article
    Drawing on her research into students' evidential reasoning, Elisabeth Pickles explores the possibilities for how such reasoning might be assessed. Existing exam mark schemes focus too heavily on generic processes involved in the analysis of source material and insufficiently on the historical validity of reasoning and conclusions produced. Approaching the...
    Assessment of students' uses of evidence

  • Bristol and America 1480-1631

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet addresses the relationship between Bristol and America, charting the rising and waning interest the city and its merchants had in discovering new lands and profiting from them, and the success or more often the failure of these voyages. It provides an interesting argument which may be seen to...
    Bristol and America 1480-1631

  • Chronology and local history: Year 6

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: This short paper introduces a highly creative, imaginative and enthralling case-study of a local history project for year 6 pupils. The teaching programme has a chronological spine that provides coherence and focus. Chronology is...
    Chronology and local history: Year 6

  • How glorious was Gloriana? Elizabeth I and her historians

      Annual Conference 2013 Podcast
    Presidential Lecture from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast Professor Jackie Eales  - President of the HA and Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University Elizabeth I's spin doctors created a lasting image of her as Gloriana and when she died her reign was lauded...
    How glorious was Gloriana? Elizabeth I and her historians

  • 'Didn't we do that in Year 7?' Planning for progress in evidential understanding

      Teaching History article
    Christine Counsell describes a lively activity, ideal for Year 9, in which pupils compare and interrelate a collection of sources. The activity leads pupils into thinking about the sources as a collection, and about the enquiry as an evidential problem. Or at least it can do. The article discusses the...
    'Didn't we do that in Year 7?' Planning for progress in evidential understanding

  • Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13

      Teaching History article
    Historical enquiry is blooming at Key Stage 3. Thanks to a rich array of source materials available on the web and in textbooks, superb history-specific training courses and genuinely innovative practice in schools, pupils can increasingly be found wrestling with demanding and often lengthy sources. They do this in order...
    Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 102

      1926 timeline; Castles
    Poster 1: 1926 timeline of events Poster 2: Castles: from strongholds to ruins
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 102

  • Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Seán Lang examines the power of film to shape AS/A students’ perception and even understanding of the past. He argues that teachers of Years 12 and 13 underestimate at their peril the impact film can have on how students shape their perception of history. Although, as he...
    Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level

  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision

      Article
    In this second webinar in our series on writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman talks about the actual process of writing the story, with examples. The difficulty of the first page - how to start your story with impact and make sure the reader is gripped from the first line....
    Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision

  • Rethinking citizenship through the history classroom, a global perspective

      Teaching History article
    Teaching history and politics in an international school in Beijing, Andrew Carey found himself in a position to reflect on the teaching of citizenship in schools, particularly the concepts involved in global citizenship. He describes how global citizenship is integrated into schemes of work for a concept-based humanities course in...
    Rethinking citizenship through the history classroom, a global perspective

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting....
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 101

      The British Civil Wars; Young Quills 2025
    Poster 1: The British Civil Wars Poster 2: Young Quills 2025
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 101

  • A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

      Teaching History article
    Are top sets always our top priority? Of course, we know that every child matters (should that now have capital letters?) but those of us who teach in an ability-setted context also know that a bottom set left unable to access the curriculum is likely to pose bigger problems than...
    A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

  • Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785

      Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
    In Episode 4, Dr Montaz Marché (University College London) and Professor Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter), discuss the lives and experience of 18th century Black Britons. In this discussion they look at the lives of both the exceptional and the ordinary, and reflect upon the politics of race and gender in...
    Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785

  • Pupil voice with SEND pupils in primary history

      Primary History article
    In this article, Lorna Spencer suggests that pupil voice is particularly important with SEND children. At the same time, this can cause challenges, as the way it is done with mainstream pupils may not be feasible with SEND pupils. She suggests some ways in which challenge might be confronted...
    Pupil voice with SEND pupils in primary history