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'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War
Teaching History article
In this article, Helena Stride shows how the Imperial War Museum responded to criticism that insufficient attention had been paid to the contribution of black and Asian people to Britain’s wars. She focuses on one of two resource-packs produced by the Museum, which highlights the experience of Britain’s colonial peoples,...
'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War
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Transforming Year 7's understanding of the concept of Imperialism: a case study on the Roman Empire
Teaching History article
Those of us in the U.K. know that many of our pupils finish their entire historical education without a satisfactory grasp of basic substantive concepts as they are used in history. Do all our low-attaining or ‘low ability’ 14-year-olds who are pressured to drop history at 14 really emerge with...
Transforming Year 7's understanding of the concept of Imperialism: a case study on the Roman Empire
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The Historian 96: What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy?
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy? The soldier in later medieval England - Adrian R Bell, Adam Chapman, Anne Curry, Andy King and David Simpkin (Read Article)
Upwards till Lepanto: The Ottoman Turks in early modern Europe - Sarah Newman
The Death of Lord Londonderry - Robert...
The Historian 96: What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy?
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Teaching History 41
Journal
Editorial
BEd Students at Work in a Middle School, Michael Gibson 3
Report: The First BALH young Historians' workshop, David Haynes & Ray Acton 5
BBC Educational Broadcasting and Irish History, Victor Kelly 6
Whose Class Is It Anyway? Ian Jones 8
Report: The Second National Conference, Sneh Shalt 11...
Teaching History 41
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The Historian 87: How Nelson Became a Hero
The magazine of the Historical Association
6 How Nelson became a hero: Horatio Nelson's date with Destiny - Kathleen Wilson (Read article)
18 France during the reign of Louis XVI - Emma Kennedy (Read article)
21 Christopher Hill: Marxism & Methodism - Penny Corfield (Read article)
24 A Crusading Outpost: Edessa 1095-1153 - Kenneth Thomson (Read...
The Historian 87: How Nelson Became a Hero
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Teaching History 39
Journal
Editorial, page 2
A Small Local Investigation - David Wright, page 3
A Journey Back into the Past - Rebecca Bell, page 5
History Workshop Centre (Report), page 7
History of Education in Schools - Richard Aldrich, page 8
Christmas Holiday Lecture Quiz Prizewinner, page 11
Recreating a Trip to...
Teaching History 39
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Teaching History 113: Creating Progress
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with creating progress: History teachers are creating progress - the idea and the reality. Why rely on others to define and design it? The creation process is every teacher's property and there is no celing on what we might help pupils achieve. JFK, Progression models, Roleplay in...
Teaching History 113: Creating Progress
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Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites
Teaching History article
Working visits to historical sites for the purposes of developing pupils’ historical understanding can be extremely useful. As part of their training, student teachers need to acquire understanding and skills in the planning and management of worthwhile ‘fieldwork’. This work can be very powerful indeed if it emerges from co-operation...
Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites
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History's big picture in three dimensions
Article
More and more historians, from diverse political viewpoints, are now expressing concern at the fragmentation of history, especially in the schools curriculum. The fragmentation of the subject has followed upon the collapse of sundry Grand Narratives, such as the ‘March of Progress', which once swept all of history into a...
History's big picture in three dimensions
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The Historian 33
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Ending of a Myth: The Fall of Singapore, 1942, Joseph Kennedy
9 Update: The Conservative Party and British Politics 1902-40, Stuart Ball
12 Education Forum: The Job of an Archives Education Officer, Mary Mills
28 Spotlight: Sheffield
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The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
Handing back Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997 - Andrew Whitfield (Read article)
Elizabeth I - Susan Doran
Western Dress and Ambivelence in the South Pacific - Michael Sturma (Read article)
The Middle East in WWII and the British Co-operation with the Zionist Agency - Nicholas Hammond
Painted Advertisements...
The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong
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Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah
Teaching History article
Nicolas Kinloch’s 1998 review of Michael Burleigh’s Ethics and Extermination in Teaching History, 93, sparked a debate amongst our readers about the teaching of the Holocaust, concerning both rationales and practical approaches. Citing the damage caused to pupils’ understanding by a Spielberg view of history, he emphasised that the rationale...
Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah
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Christopher Hill: Marxism and Methodism
Historian article
Christopher Hill, the eminent historian of seventeenth century England, was a convinced Marxist throughout most of his long and productive life (1912-2003). He embraced this secular world-view when he was a young History student at Oxford in the polemical 1930s and never lost his ideological commitment, even though he resigned...
Christopher Hill: Marxism and Methodism
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Teaching History 27
Journal
Editorial, page 2
Notes on contributors, page 2
Oral History and the Raj - Andrew Reekes, page 4
Programmed Learning and Guided Learning in History - Brian Garvey, page 7
From a Victorian Scrapheap - David Jeremy, page 10
Simulations and Computers - Richard Ennals, page 13
Mr Polly's History,...
Teaching History 27
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The Historian 20
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: The Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, C N.L Brooke
10 Update: The Industrial Revolution, John J. Mason
13 Local History: Laxton: England's Last Open Field Village, John Beckett
17 Education Forum: The School History Question, Roger Hennessey
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The Historian 6
The magazine of the Historical Association
Articles include:
3 Feature: Forty Years in the Field – Maurice Beresford
10 Local History: Agrarian Changes in the 18th and 19th Centuries
15 Record Linkage: The Factory and the Community – Chris Wrigley
18 Westminster Diary: Archives in Danger
20 Personalia: Profile of Geoffrey Dickens
32 Spotlight: Styal
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