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  • The Historian 123: Newcastle & the General Strike 1926

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 Using the House by Wendy Barnes 11 The President's Column 12 Newcastle and the General Strike 1926 - Hugh Gault (Read Article)  16 A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester - Dave Martin (Read Article) 20 The shortest war in history - Alf Wilkinson (Read...
    The Historian 123: Newcastle & the General Strike 1926

  • The Historian 121: Historical Biography

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Review - John F. Kennedy 5 Editorial 6 Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses - Ian Dawson (Read Article) 13 The President's Column 14 Contemporary and Historical Biography: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-14: A ten-year review - Lawrence Goldman 20 The Unfortunate Captain Peirce:...
    The Historian 121: Historical Biography

  • Women and the Politics of the Parish in England

      Historian article
    Petticoat Politicians: Women and the Politics of the Parish in England The history of women voting in Britain is familiar to many. 2013 marked the centenary of the zenith of the militant female suffrage movement, culminating in the tragic death of Emily Wilding Davison, crushed by the King's horse at...
    Women and the Politics of the Parish in England

  • A cultural legacy: the theatre of ancient Greece

      Primary History article
    Sometimes it is not easy to understand how the different units of the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum were selected, but this is not true for the Ancient Greek unit. Since the renaissance period, knowledge of ‘the classics’ has been a central element for an educated man or woman. Ancient...
    A cultural legacy: the theatre of ancient Greece

  • Polychronicon 155: Interpreting the Origins of of the First World War

      Teaching History feature
    As I write this article I have before me my grandfather's Victory Medal from the First World War. It has inscribed on the reverse side, ‘The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919'. The absolute certainty of such a justification for Britain's entry into the war seems somewhat hollow as we approach...
    Polychronicon 155: Interpreting the Origins of of the First World War

  • Diversity and the History Curriculum

      Article
    It's very dangerous if you make it seem like history is the province of a certain segment of society. History should belong to and include all of us. The curriculum needs to appeal to as many children as possible or a number of them could become disenchanted with education because they...
    Diversity and the History Curriculum

  • Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative

      Teaching History article
    ‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home': exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative Paula Worth draws on three professional traditions in history education in order to build a lesson sequence on the Crusades for her Year 7s. First,...
    Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative

  • Religion and Politics 1559-1642

      Classic Pamphlet
    It is a truism to say that religion and politics were inextricably mixed in the seventeenth century. "So natural" wrote Richard Hooker,"is the union of religion with Justice, that we may boldly deem there is neither where both are not" Sir John Eliot observed that in the House of Commons...
    Religion and Politics 1559-1642

  • Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?

      Teaching History feature
    Question: Who is buried in the box? Seeking a new and exciting way to introduce my Year 7 students to history, I looked to a practical solution. Ian Dawson once used a Thinking History exercise where students looked at the idea of ‘layers of history'. It was useful in structuring...
    Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?

  • History 340

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    April 2015 - Volume 100, Issue 340Articles1. Intelligence Studies: The British Invasion (pages 163-166)Richard H. Immerman2. The Burgeoning Fissures of Dissent: Allen Dulles and the Selling of the CIA in the Aftermath of the Bay of Pigs (pages 167-188)Simon Willmetts3. American Journalism and the Landscape of Secrecy: Tad Szulc, the...
    History 340

  • Medieval Trade Routes

      Classic Pamphlet
    The subject of Medieval Trade Routes presents certain difficulties at the outset. There is no clear definition of the word ‘medieval' and, whatever period is chosen, it is obvious that trade routes within that period would be unlikely always to follow the same direction or to be of the same...
    Medieval Trade Routes

  • Home Rule for Ireland - For and against

      Historian article
    At a time when the United Kingdom continues to review its internal constitutional arrangements, Matthew Kelly explores how this constitutional debate can be traced back to Gladstone's decision to promote Home Rule for Ireland and how these proposals evolved over time and were challenged. Irish political history decisively entered a...
    Home Rule for Ireland - For and against

  • History 332

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles1. Introduction (pages 503-510) - James Gow and Cathie Carmichael2. Banking against Humanity: The Holocaust, the Reichsbank Loot Film and the American Prosecution at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (pages 511-529) - Kevin Reynolds3. ‘Soul Destroyers': Soviet Reporting of Nazi Genocide and its Perpetrators at the Krasnodar and Khar′kov Trials...
    History 332

  • Polychronicon 146: Interpreting the history of 'big history'

      Teaching History feature
    In recent decades, a novel approach to history has emerged, called ‘big history', which provides an overview of all of human history, embedded within biological, geological and astronomical history covering the grandest sweep of time and space, from the beginning of the universe to life on Earth here and now....
    Polychronicon 146: Interpreting the history of 'big history'

  • The Origins of Parliament

      Classic Pamphlet
    He who would seek the origins of parliament cannot proceed without knowing that this is, and this has been, a matter much controverted. English politics have very often been conducted in terms of what has passed for history, not least because they have so frequently revolved around the rights and...
    The Origins of Parliament

  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Articles Eleni Apostolidou Teaching and Discussing Historical Significance with 15 year-old students in Greece Manuela Carvalho and Isabel Barca Students' Use of Historical Evidence in European Countries P. Checkley and C. Checkley ‘Future Teachers of the Past' - An initial analysis of Initial Teacher Training students and their preparation...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

  • History 331

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles1. Evidence for Dualism in Inquisitorial Registers of the 1240s: A Contribution to a Debate (pages 319-345) - Claire Taylor2. Making Gibraltar British in the Eighteenth Century (pages 346-369) - Geoffrey Plank3. The Clinton-Cornwallis Controversy and Responsibility for the British Surrender at Yorktown (pages 370-389) - Richard Middleton4. Churchill's Black...
    History 331

  • Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning

      Primary History article
    Creative curricular planning With the National Curriculum under review, it seems that more schools are taking a creative approach to planning by delivering the curriculum through a focused theme or topic. This has allowed schools to take more ownership of the curriculum and has helped teachers become more innovative in their...
    Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning

  • Woodcraft Youth: the interwar alternative to scouting

      Historian article
    ‘We should recognize once and for all', exclaimed ‘White Fox', a rebel London Scout leader, ‘that the ideas and ideals which may have fitted fairly well into the social fabric of 1908 [year Scouts formed] may be very ill-fitting "reach-medowns" in 1920'. During the First World War, the enthusiastic support...
    Woodcraft Youth: the interwar alternative to scouting

  • Teaching students to argue for themselves - KS3

      Teaching History article
    Keeley Richards secured a fundamental shift in some of her Year 13 students' ability to argue. She did it by getting them to engage more fully with the practice of argument itself, as enacted by four historians. At the centre of her lesson sequence was an original activity: the historians'...
    Teaching students to argue for themselves - KS3

  • Period, place and mental space

      Teaching History article
    Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by...
    Period, place and mental space

  • The League of Nations

      Classic Pamphlet
    It is common to see the failure of the League of Nations in its inability to stand up to the crises of the inter-war years.Peter Raffo shows that the League was flawed from the start. Never more than a voluntary association of sovereign states hoping to create ‘an atmosphere capable...
    The League of Nations

  • Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

      Teaching History article
    Patterns of genocide: can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention? Alison Stephen, who has wrestled for many years with the challenges of teaching emotional and controversial history within a multiethnic school setting, relished the opportunity to link her school's teaching of the Holocaust with a comparative study of other genocides....
    Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

  • Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet provides an interesting approach to a historical topic which has been too frequently covered from a single viewpoint. The pamphlet delivers a thoroughly Scottish approach to the nature of the 1707 Union and the changing nature of Scotland in the following centuries. It highlights the disparity of the...
    Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707

  • Ancient Athenian inscriptions in public and private UK collections

      Historian article
    Peter Liddel introduces us to a rich source of historical information and encourages us to make some purposeful visits to museums. From the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century, travellers from the UK explored the Mediterranean lands of ancient civilisations in search of trophies that demonstrated the achievements of the classical world. Highly...
    Ancient Athenian inscriptions in public and private UK collections