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The commercial architecture of Victorian Liverpool
Article
In 1857 the Builder enthusiastically described the thriving state of architecture on the banks of the Mersey: 'The impression from a walk through the principal quarters of the town, after visiting other towns, is that more [building of a superior kind] must be doing in Liverpool than at any other...
The commercial architecture of Victorian Liverpool
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Towards Reform in 1809
Historian article
Two hundred years ago it must have seemed to some as if the time for political and economic reform in Britain had arrived. A number of the necessary conditions appeared to be in place:
recent examples from America and France showing how readily and rapidly established systems could be overturned...
Towards Reform in 1809
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Teaching History 56
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
History Across the Primary Secondary Divide Pat Lackenby and Mel French 8
Evacuation - Fifty Years On Rob David and the Evacuation Project Team 14
A Fourth Year B.Ed Student asks some questions Kay Clarke 18
Women's History and Children's perception of gender Fiona Terry...
Teaching History 56
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History 379-380
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 107, Issue 379-380
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Jacques de Vitry (d. 1240) and the Religious Life of his Time (pp 3-19) – Robert Bartlett (Open Access)
Alienated Outsider or Integrated Courtier? Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1498–1521 and the Royal Court (pp...
History 379-380
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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 194: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment
The current ecological and climate crisis is, without doubt, human-induced. Even those who previously disputed this claim have switched from outright denial to arguing that the threat is exaggerated.1 Meanwhile, many young people are responding to the crisis with strong emotions, such as...
Teaching History 194: Out now
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History 382
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 108, Issue 382
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Special issue papers
(Hi)story-Telling: An Introduction to Italian Alternate and Counterfactual History (pp 355-364) – Adriano Vinale (Open Access)
‘Missed Revolutions’: Historical Narratives During Italian Fascism (from Delio Cantimori to Camillo Pellizzi) (pp 365-387) – Patricia...
History 382
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Faction in Tudor England
Classic Pamphlet
'This wicked Tower must be fed with blood' - W. S. Gilbert's dialogue sums up the popular myth of Tudor England. This pamphlet looks at the reality, a society and politics necessarily divided into rival factions by the pulls of patronage, local loyalty and the implications of personal monarchy, and...
Faction in Tudor England
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Primary History 91: Out now
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Read Primary History 91
The Platinum Jubilee weekend has vanished in a swirl of colour, noise, pomp and silliness although I suspect Her Majesty and Paddington Bear’s tea party will live on for a long time. The second half of the summer term is upon us with sports days, leaving dos and...
Primary History 91: Out now
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The Historian 152: Out now
The magazine of the Historical Association
Read The Historian 152: Built environment
From its inception The Historian has been built on the voluntary efforts of both its editorial leadership and also its contributors. This voluntary context has been delivered in as professional a manner as possible. One of our recent strategies has been to identify a...
The Historian 152: Out now
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Teaching History 184: Different lenses
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article for free)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Beyond myth and magic: Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire – Paula Worth (Read article)
22 They sometimes clashed, and ultimately blended: planning a more...
Teaching History 184: Different lenses
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Charles XII
Classic Pamphlet
The reputation of Charles XII who became king of Sweden before he was fifteen years old and had the responsibility of absolutist goverment thrust upon him within the next six months - contrary to the plans laid down for him by his father - has tended to attract political rather...
Charles XII
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The Historian 151: Out now
The magazine of the Historical Association
Read The Historian 151: Branches
As life begins to return to some semblance of normality for many people, numerous HA branches are also resuming in-person meetings this autumn. Although online platforms such as Zoom offered branches the opportunity to continue running lectures and email allowed us to keep in touch...
The Historian 151: Out now
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Dress becomes her: the appearance and apparel of Elizabeth II
Historian article
She never carries any money but she does carry a handbag. The way that clothes and fashion choices made by HM The Queen are part of her modern armour and reflect her choices as a monarch as discussed in this article.
As debates about the relevance of the institution of monarchy within Britain...
Dress becomes her: the appearance and apparel of Elizabeth II
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Nazism and Stalinism
Classic Pamphlet
Is it legitimate to compare the Nazi and Stalinist regimes? There might seem little room for doubt. It is often taken as self-evident that the two regimes were variations of a common type. They are bracketed together in school and university courses, as well as text books, under labels such...
Nazism and Stalinism
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Epistemic insights: bringing subject disciplines together
Primary History article
"Teaching epistemic insight goes hand in hand with teaching a broad and balanced curriculum. It includes building students’ understanding of the ways that different types of disciplinary knowledge can help us to address questions that bridge subjects and disciplines." (Teaching and Learning about Epistemic Insight brochure, https://crc.up.pt/wp-content/uploads/sites/101/2017/09/epistemic-insight-brochure.pdf)
The Epistemic Insight Project...
Epistemic insights: bringing subject disciplines together
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Bigamy
Article
Though people are still sometimes prosecuted for repeatedly marrying immigrants to rescue them from the attentions of the Home Office, while forgetting to get divorced between times, one uncovenanted result of the now common practice of living together without matrimony is the decline of that celebrated Victorian institution: bigamy.
In...
Bigamy
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History 384-385
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 109, Issue 384-385
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Richard, bishop of Syracuse and archbishop of Messina (d. 1195), and the History of the Tyrants of Sicily (pp 3-33) – Mark Hagger
Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham (pp 34-58) –...
History 384-385
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Private Lives of the Tudors
Historian article
Tracy Borman explores the distinction between the public and private lives of the Tudor monarchs.
The Tudors were renowned for their public magnificence. Perhaps more than any royal dynasty in British history, they appreciated the importance of impressing their subjects with the splendour of their dress, courts and pageantry in order to reinforce their authority. Wherever...
Private Lives of the Tudors
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The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 Vichy France and the Jews - Julian Jackson (Read article)
10 The Press and the Public during the Boer War - Jacqueline Beaumont Hughes (Read article)
16 Cambridge - Elisabeth Leedham-Green (Read article)
21 The Vikings in Britain - Henry Loyn
The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War
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'Veni, Vidi, Vici!'
Historian article
A personal reflection on Julius Caesar and the conquest of Britain
Julius Caesar always brings to mind the famous dictum of Winston Churchill, ‘History will be kind to me, for I shall write it!' In his writings Julius Caesar provides a vivid and detailed account of his invasions of Britain in...
'Veni, Vidi, Vici!'
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India in 1914
Historian article
Rather as Queen Victoria was never as ‘Victorian' as we tend to assume, so British India in the years leading up to 1914 does not present the cliched spectacle of colonists in pith helmets and shorts lording it over subservient natives that we might assume. Certainly that sort of relationship...
India in 1914
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History 361
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 361
Articles
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The Origins of the Husting and the Folkmoot (pp 409-424) – Rory Naismith – Free Access
Modelling the Socialist Kindergarten in the Early Soviet Picture Book (pp 425-458) – Frances Saddington – Open Access
Legacy of...
History 361
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The Historian 97: Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars
The magazine of the Historical Association
A Victorian deserter's family story: surviving a clash of loyalties - Donald Read (Read Article)
Shipwrecks, Clocks and Westminster Abbey: the story of John Harrison - Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS
Wellington’s Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars - Zeta Moore
Buffolo Bill and his Wild West show opens in London's Earls Court in 1887...
The Historian 97: Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars
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Teaching History 189: Collaboration
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Adding up marginal gains: using Lesson Study to make microimprovements in teaching Year 8 how to use sources – Tony McConnell, Davinia Daley, Rebecca Levy, Lisa Waddell and Richard Waddington (Read article)
23 Triumphs Show: ‘The Strands of Memory’: how a...
Teaching History 189: Collaboration
