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The Historian 22
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Palmerston, Man of Paradox, Muriel E. Chamberlain
10 Interpretation: Emperor Hirohito and Japanese History, Alan G.R. Smith
12 Local History: Vernacular Architecture and its Study, R. W. Brunskill
16 Update: The Crusades, Malcolm Bather
19 Education Forum: History 1989, Reform or Reaction, Christine Lloyd
20 Portfolio: Sinews of Wan Royalist Finances...
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The Historian 24
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Napoleon and the French Revolution, Irvne Collins
10 Update: The Causes of the Second World War, Michael Dockrill
13 Education Forum: Time for Change at 'A' Level, John Fines
14 Museums: Working From Museums, Gail Durbin
18 Portfolio: Medieval Emperors and the English Kings, Dorothy Meade
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The Historian 25
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Francesco Crispi and the Legacy of the Rsorgimento, Christopher Duggan
9 Update: Popular Protest in Britain c.1811-1850, John Rule
24 Education Forum: Computers in the Teaching and Learning of History, Aknic Dickinson
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The Historian 26
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Martin Luther King, Jr, Adam Fairclough
10 Update: David Lloyd George 1863-1945, Chris Wrigley
13 Education Forum: History and the National Curriculum, Martin Roberts
14 Portfolio: The Rise of the English Gentry 1150-1350, Cohn Richmond
19 Museums: Berlin Museums & the Third Reich, Tom Holder
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Primary History summer resource 2022: Museum visits
Primary member resource
This year's free summer resource for primary members looks at making the most of museum visits.
Museums and sites provide rich sensory environments that engage children's curiosity and allow them to explore through all their senses. Museums and sites transmit the past through a variety of perspectives, provide authenticity and present historical evidence. The experiential nature of museum visits encourages genuine...
Primary History summer resource 2022: Museum visits
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The Historian 27
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Question of Germanies, Michael Biddiss
10 Update: Britain at War 1914-1918, Keith Grieves
13 Portfolio: Moles under HQ? — Kennington Station and the First Tube Line, Neil Lloyd
14 Education Forum: History in Secondary Schools: the Scottish Experience, Mary B. Gould
15 Local History: Local History and...
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Recorded webinar: Invisible assessment within an enquiry
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Session 1: Invisible assessment within an enquiry
This session explores the constant, routine assessment that goes on throughout the history lessons that make up a single enquiry – assessment that forms such a natural part of history teaching that it’s sometimes...
Recorded webinar: Invisible assessment within an enquiry
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The Historian 28
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Japan in Perspective, Richard Tames
10 Eyewitness: One of a Luckless Tribe: Arthur Moore and the Amiens Despatch, Keith Haines
12 Record Linkage: Cartoon Corner: Curriculum Controversy Caricatured
14 Portfolio: Ramsay MacDonald: Aviator and Ac'ionman, Adrian Smith
16 Education Forum: Monsteh, History and the Young Child, Paul Noble...
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The Historian 29
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Gods of Roman Britain, David Shotter
9 Update: Slavery and the Plantation System in the British Caribbean: The example of Jamaica, Verene A. Shepherd
12 In Memoriam: Dr Esmond de Beer
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Recorded webinar: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history
Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Session 1: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history
This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of chronology and the disciplinary concept of change and continuity and will show how such confusion and misconceptions...
Recorded webinar: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history
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The Historian 161: The Silk Roads
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Letters – Ask The Historian
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 The ‘Silk Roads’: the use and abuse of a historical concept – Susan Whitfield (Read article)
14 From Norwich to Nara: reflections on Silk Road connections – Simon Kaner (Read article)
20 Sutton Hoo and long-distance contacts – Andy...
The Historian 161: The Silk Roads
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Triumphs Show 176: Using material culture as a means to generate an enquiry on the British Empire
Teaching History feature
Triumphs Show is a regular feature which offers a quick way for teachers to celebrate their successes and share inspirational ideas with one another. While the ideas are always explained in sufficient depth for others to be able to take them forward in their own practice, the simple format allows...
Triumphs Show 176: Using material culture as a means to generate an enquiry on the British Empire
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Recorded Webinar: Robespierre and Danton: Heroes of the French Revolution?
Article
One of the oldest myths of the French Revolution is the lethal rivalry between Robespierre and Danton: Robespierre the cold, bloodthirsty dictator who ruled France through Terror, versus Danton, the warm, humane, inspirational orator who wanted to stop Terror. Throughout the 19th century Robespierre was mostly depicted as a villain,...
Recorded Webinar: Robespierre and Danton: Heroes of the French Revolution?
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Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War
An enduring counterfactual
Would US President John F. Kennedy have avoided the catastrophe that became the Vietnam War if Lee Harvey Oswald had not assassinated him in Dallas on that fateful day of 22 November 1963? This question – or a version of it – has animated discussions of the Vietnam War for...
Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War
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Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities
In partnership with UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
Since 2001 the UK has marked Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, the date of the 'liberation' of Auschwitz Birkenau by Soviet soldiers in 1945. History teachers and their colleagues are often asked to 'mark' HMD in their schools. In this webinar we will explore themes of commemoration and education...
Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities
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Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?
HA Virtual Forum, November 2021
We are at a vital moment in our attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Global warming is an inter-disciplinary challenge for the world and an inter-disciplinary challenge in education, too. In this talk, Alison Kitson argues that history provides a vital perspective that enables young people to understand our interaction...
Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?
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Virtual Branch: Birds and British History
Article
In his recent book The Cuckoo's Lea Michael J Warren provides a exploration of how birds are entwined with British history, particularly in our place names.
Join us for an exclusive Q&A with the author to weave together literature, history and ornithology and discover a fascinating heritage that matters deeply now when so...
Virtual Branch: Birds and British History
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Why White Liberals Fail: United States politics in an election year
Historian feature
Paula Kitching interview with Professor Anthony J. Badger about his latest book.
2024 is an election year in the United States. For many in the UK and around the world the US political system can be confusing, with simple processes seemingly more complex than you would expect. It is not just the system...
Why White Liberals Fail: United States politics in an election year
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Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
Teaching History article
Many history teachers will already be familiar with ‘meanwhile, elsewhere...’, a website offering freely downloadable homework resources on individuals, events and developments in world history. In this article the website’s creators, Richard Kennett and Will Bailey-Watson, set out a curricular rationale for the project. They argue that using homework tasks...
Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
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The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945
Historian article
Throughout the Second World War the BBC produced and transmitted regular broadcasts in German to Germany and other European countries occupied by the Germans. In this article Hattie Simpson evaluates the style and success of the BBC German Service. The article is based on her winning entry in the senior...
The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945
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Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport
Historian article
The early 2020s have seen various investigations and reports about discrimination in English cricket. As well as finding many examples of racial and gender prejudice, these investigations have unearthed a long history of social elitism in the sport. In this article, Duncan Stone explores some of the historical background to...
Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport
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Primary History 96: Climate and Environment
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
05 Editorial (Read article)
06 The potential of primary history – Alison Kitson and Michael Riley (Read article)
12 How much has the weather mattered in British history? A possible development study – Tim Lomas (Read article)
20 A Significant Local Event: Carlisle floods – Sue Temple (Read article)
24 Earth heroes: Etta Lemon,...
Primary History 96: Climate and Environment
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Recorded webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial history teacher education
Primary webinar recording
Calling all those beginning their initial teacher education! Whether you are undertaking an undergraduate or postgraduate qualification, if you are interested in choosing a history specialism, this session is for you! In this free webinar you’ll hear from teacher educators and those who have just completed their initial teacher education...
Recorded webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial history teacher education
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The Historian 160: Sport in History
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Letters
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Faster, higher, stronger – but don’t try too hard: political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics – Steve Illingworth (Read article)
12 Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport – Duncan Stone (Read article)
16 The right to...
The Historian 160: Sport in History
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Triumphs Show 192: Balancing micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust
Teaching History feature
Lien de Jong celebrates her 90th birthday in September 2023. In lots of ways, her biography is similar to many Europeans of her generation. She was born, grew up and went to school in The Hague during the 1930s. She trained to work in a nursery. In the 1950s, she...
Triumphs Show 192: Balancing micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust
