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Polychronicon 145: Interpreting the history of the modern prison
Teaching History feature
On the morning of Sunday 24 January 1932 convicts paraded in the exercise yards at Dartmoor Convict Prison in Devon. Suddenly, inmates began to break ranks, encouraging others to do likewise. Some prisoners were shepherded into cell blocks by officers but control mechanisms quickly collapsed and the remaining inmates had...
Polychronicon 145: Interpreting the history of the modern prison
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A sense of occasion
Historian article
It is appropriate, in this bicentenary year of Mendelssohn's birth, to remember a great day in Birmingham's musical and social calendar. A day when the composer's Oratorio, Elijah, especially commissioned for the city's 1846 Triennial Festival to raise money for the Children's Hospital, was first performed in the newly refurbished Town...
A sense of occasion
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Film: A short history of Islamic thought
Article
In his book of the same name, A short history of Islamic thought, Dr Fitzroy Morrissey provides a concise introduction to the origins and sources of Islamic thought, from its beginnings in the 7th century to the current moment.
In this talk he explores the major ideas and introduces the...
Film: A short history of Islamic thought
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The Fatimid Caliphate
909-1171
The Fatimid Caliphate also known as the Fatimid Empire, was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty. The Fatimids traced their ancestry to the Islamic prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatima and her husband Ali, the first Shi'a imam.
Originating during the Abbasid Caliphate, the Fatimids initially conquered Ifriqiya (roughly present-day Tunisia and north-eastern Algeria). They extended their...
The Fatimid Caliphate
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 15
Branch Publication
3. Editorial
4. National Library of Wales - Andrew Green
6. Dear Diary - Geoff Mortimer
8. The Jesus Papyrus and Swansea - Robert McCloy
11. Writing - Peter Read
12. The Printing Press in Venice - John Law
15. From their diaries
16. Book Review - Peter East
17. Many Arches Well Adorned - Andrew Prescott
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 15
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The Baltic Crusades
The Northern Crusades (1147-1410)
In this podcast, Gregory Leighton, provides an introduction to the Baltic Crusades (also known as the Northern Crusades).
The Baltic Crusades were campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and also against Orthodox Christian Slavs.
From the outset, Christian monarchs...
The Baltic Crusades
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The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades
Classic Pamphlet
This resource is a pamphlet titled ‘The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades’ and written by R. J. H. Jenkins in 1953. As such, some of the scholarship has been updated since then, although it can provide useful historiography.
It is not strange that there should in recent...
The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades
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Of the many significant things that have ever happened, what should we teach?
Teaching History article
There are three basic strands to our lessons. How should we teach? What skills should we enable our students to build? What content should we use to deliver those skills?
In this article Tony McConnell, who has been re-designing the curriculum in his school in response to a changed examination regimen, considers the issue of subject...
Of the many significant things that have ever happened, what should we teach?
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The spy who never spied
Historian article
Claire Hubbard-Hall takes us on a wartime journey across the Atlantic.
On 30 June 1942, the Swedish-American liner SS Drottningholm docked in New York Harbour. As a diplomatic ship it had just completed its run from Lisbon (Portugal) to America. Standing at 538 feet long and 60 feet wide, painted white...
The spy who never spied
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Seeing the historical world
Teaching History article
In this article, Lindsay Cassedy, Catherine Flaherty and Michael Fordham draw upon their empirical research to assess what understandings their students had of historical interpretations at the end of their compulsory education in history. They found that most students operated with an underlying epistemological model that did not reflect the...
Seeing the historical world
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The Historian 111: An Intimate History of Your Home
The magazine of the Historical Association
5 Editorial
6 An Intimate History of Your Home - Lucy Worsley (Read Article)
10 The Tale of Two Winstons - Warren Dockter (Read Article)
13 The President's Column - Jackie Eales
14 Drought, Dust and Despair: The Story of pioneering British settlers' heartbreaking struggle to survive in the Victorian Mallee - 1923-1936 -...
The Historian 111: An Intimate History of Your Home
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The Berlin Olympics 1936
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Nazi Germany was the backdrop of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Nazi party used the games for propaganda whilst hiding its racist and militaristic campaign. The following activities seek to encourage historical inquiry and interpretation, through...
The Berlin Olympics 1936
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Citizenship and the Olympics
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Citizenship links. While most of us engage with the nature of the sporting aspects of an Olympics throughout its modern day reincarnation, there are many aspects of the Games on and off the sporting field that...
Citizenship and the Olympics
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Podcast Series: The Renaissance
The Renaissance
In this podcast Dr Gabriele Neher of the University of Nottingham provides an introduction to the Renaissance.
Podcast Series: The Renaissance
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The Historian 110: The Escape of the Prince in 1746
The magazine of the Historical Association
5 Editorial
6 The escape of the Prince in 1746 - A E MacRobert (Read Article)
12 Oxford's Literary War: Oxford University's servicemen and the Great War - Dr Stephen M. Cullen (Read Article)
18 Enter the Tudor Prince - Trevor Fisher (Read Article)
22 India and the British war...
The Historian 110: The Escape of the Prince in 1746
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Bonnie Prince Charlie: The escape of the Prince in 1746
Historian article
Thirty thousand pounds was an enormous sum of money in 1746. That was the reward offered by the British government for the capture of Prince Charles. Many Highlanders knew where he was at various times and places after Culloden, but they did not betray him. As one of his helpers...
Bonnie Prince Charlie: The escape of the Prince in 1746
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The Swansea Branch Chronicle 13
Branch Publication
3 From the Editor
4 A Royal Picnic - John Law
6 The Vivians at War - Ralph A Griffiths
7 A Good Butcher - RHV Phillips
10 The Swansea Canal - Clive Reed
12 Aberfan - Jeff Griffiths
13 Men of Steel - Mike Smith
16 Contributors - 18...
The Swansea Branch Chronicle 13
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Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
The mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Jo Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.
This...
Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
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Podcast Series: The Crusades
Multipage Article
An HA Podcasted History of the Crusades featuring Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith, Professor Jonathan Phillips of Royal Holloway, University of London and Dr Tom Asbridge of Queen Mary, University of London.
Podcast Series: The Crusades
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Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial: A Sense of Period (Read article for free)
HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Exploring the ‘remembered’: using oral history to enhance a local history partnership – Emily Toettcher and Eliza West (Read article)
16 Triumphs Show: A public lecture series: a peek behind the scenes of...
Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period
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OFSTED, primary history and creativity
Primary History article
Co-ordinators concerns: OFSTED, primary history and creativity
I'm told the emphasis in schools now is for a rigorous approach to history where the children are taught the main facts and features of history. I recall a time not so long ago when the whole curriculum was about creativity but surely...
OFSTED, primary history and creativity
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The Jacobites
Scottish History
In this podcast Dr Nigel Aston of the University of Leicester examines the Jacobites and the Jacobite risings that took place between 1688 and 1746.
The Jacobites
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Story, myth and legend: The Story of Atalanta
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Time and change in stories
Everyone loves a story and stories have always been at the heart of early years education. Children can relate their own experiences of time to stories in picture books about other...
Story, myth and legend: The Story of Atalanta
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Women & the Baltic Crusades
Podcast
The Baltic Crusades were Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and also against Orthodox Christian East Slavs.
The most notable campaigns were the Livonian and Prussian crusades.
In this podcast, Emeritus Professor Helen J. Nicholson (Cardiff University), provides a short introduction to the role...
Women & the Baltic Crusades
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Podcast Series: The Tudors
Multipage Article
An HA Podcasted History of the Tudors featuring Dr Sue Doran, Dr Steven Gunn, Dr Michael Everett & Dr Anna Whitelock.
Podcast Series: The Tudors
