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The Historian 122: French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?
The magazine of the Historical Association
5 Editorial
6 French chivalry in twelfth century Britain? - John Gillingham (Read Article)
11 The President's Column
12 D-Day Commemorations: the last big year to remember? - Paula Kitching and Jon Wort (Read Article)
19 Bayeux - Edward Towne (Read Article)
20 ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici!' A personal reflection on Julius Caesar and...
The Historian 122: French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?
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Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion
Teaching History feature
This issue's problem: Helena Swannick tends to treat differences between historical interpretations simply as matters of opinion.
Helena Swannick is a career changer who has decided to come into teaching after many years' working in human resources and some time at home caring for two young children. Her degree was a...
Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion
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Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
Teaching History article
Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
‘Blackadder for real' is how the British journalist and broadcaster, Ian Hislop, characterised The Wipers Time, the newspaper published on the front line by members of the 12th Battalion Sherwood, and recently brought...
Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
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Helping Year 9 explore the cultural legacies of WW1
Teaching History article
A world turned molten: helping Year 9 to explore the cultural legacies of the First World War
Rachel Foster shows how her own study of cultural history led to a new dimension in her planning. She wanted to show her students not only that historians are interested in many different...
Helping Year 9 explore the cultural legacies of WW1
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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
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The Early Mediaeval State
Classic Pamphlet
In order to define the constitution of a state, theorists and historians still apply Aristotle's categories; monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. This method has obvious limitations; there can be no doubt that the formal sovereignty either of an individual or of a minority or a majority does not of itself suffice...
The Early Mediaeval State
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Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
Classic Pamphlet
Radicalism with a large "R", unlike Conservatism with a large "C" and Liberalism with a large "L", is not a historical term of even proximate precision. There was never a Radical Party with a national organization, local associations, or a treasury. But there were, and there are, "Radicals", generally qualified...
Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
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The Bristol Riots
Classic Pamphlet
In 1831, Bristol suffered the worst outbreak of urban rioting since the Gordon Riots in London over fifty years earlier. Twelve rioters were officially declared to have died as a result of confrontations with troops and special constables, and many more unidentifiable corpses were discovered among the ruins of the...
The Bristol Riots
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Peter Abelard
Classic Pamphlet
The Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Library contains a large number of entries under the name of Peter Abelard. Most relate to books published in the last two hundred years and most of the editions of works written by Abelard, as distinct from books about him or about...
Peter Abelard
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Teaching History 20
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3
What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5
Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8
16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10
Comment, 13
Reports:
Language and History Teaching, 15
History...
Teaching History 20
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Teaching History 27
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on contributors, 2
Oral History and the Raj - Andrew Reekes, 4
Programmed Learning and Guided Learning in History - Brian Garvey, 7
From a Victorian Scrapheap - David Jeremy, 10
Simulations and Computers - Richard Ennals, 13
Mr Polly's History, 16
Mission to England - Barbara...
Teaching History 27
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Teaching History 29
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Keith Hodgkinson and Michael Long, 3
Notes and news, 7
Primary School Children's Preception of Authenticity and Time in Historical Narrative Pictures - John West, 8
A Course in Local History Tonbridge and Kent - Andrew Reekes,...
Teaching History 29
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Teaching History 30
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
Down among the Deadmen: Graveyard Surveys for Local Studies - Brian Dix and Richard Smart, 3
Educational Objectives for History - Ten Years On -John Fines, 8
Notes and News, 10
A Primary School's Experiment with a Micro-Computor - James Gent, 11
History Abandoned?...
Teaching History 30
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Teaching History 31
Journal
Editorial, 2
List of Historical Association Area Education Advisers, 3
The 'Records Road Show' or Documents in Essex Classrooms - Ian Mason, 4
Schooling the Local Historian - Gareth Elwyn Jones, 7
Local History Teaching and the Ordinary Child - R. D. Woodall, 10
Lincolnshire Teachers' Views on a 16...
Teaching History 31
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Teaching History 32
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Role of History in Multi-Cultural Education - David Edgington, 3
The Perception of Indian History Teachers about the Ideal Pupil - Vijay K. Raina, 6
Can History Survive? - Trevor Fisher, 8
Report: Teaching A Level History: A Conference Report - Sandra Armstrong, 10
The History Curriculum...
Teaching History 32
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Teaching History 33
Journal
Editorial, 2
History Teaching and Artificial Intelligence - Richard Ennals, 3
Primary Schools: Humanities and Microelectronics - Ron Jones, 6
Choosing and Using Microcomputers: A Charter of Experience - John Wilkes, 9
Report: History and Computers - Frances Blow, 12
Report: Computer Assisted Learning in History - Derek Turner, 13...
Teaching History 33
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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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Teaching History 54
Journal
Editorial 2
Historical Association News 3
Articles:
Computers in Secondary School History Teaching: an HMI view - Carole Baker and lain Paterson 7
Supporting the Future - MESU and the History Teacher - Sue Bennett 10
An Introduction to Computers in the History Classroom - John Simkin 12
GCSE Course...
Teaching History 54
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Teaching History 58
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
7 National Curriculum History: Interim Report - Martin Booth
10 Teachers' Concerns over the Current Vogue in Teaching History - Peter Truman
17 Story-Telling in History - Alan Farmer
24 'Mr. History': the Achievement of R. J. Unstead Reconsidered - Sean Lang
27 'Let's Think about this': GCSE History - Computer Aided Course...
Teaching History 58
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Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups
Teaching History feature
This issue's problem:Joe Priestley is having problems providing sufficient challenge for the higher attainers within his mixed ability groups
Joe Priestley has settled into his training placement very well and has impressed other members of the history department with his lively and engaging ideas.
In his early teaching he was...
Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups
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Teaching History 68
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
9 History Teaching and Economic Awareness: A Sample Topic - P. J. Rogers
14 A Land Fit for Heroes: Recreating the Past through Drama - Kate Fleming
17 Holt Hall, 1940: A Residential 'Living History' Project - Alan Childs and Mike Pond
20 History and Computers in Dorset - Dave Martin
26 Clear...
Teaching History 68
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The Great Fire of London and the National Curriculum
Primary History article including Scheme of Work for Key Stage 1 (unresourced)
The Great Fire of London is a favourite National Curriculum teaching topic. This paper draws on the latest resources and teaching ideas to suggest how you can meet both the NC history requirements and the wider ones of the National Curriculum, particularly in integrated programmes that include teaching about the Great...
The Great Fire of London and the National Curriculum
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Adam Smith
Classic Pamphlet
Adam Smith 1723-1790
Adam Smith was so pre-eminently one of the master minds of the eighteenth century and so obviously one of the dominating influences of the nineteenth, in his own country and in the world at large, that is somewhat surprising that we are so ill-informed regarding the details...
Adam Smith
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The world in 1913: friendly societies
Historian article
Friendly societies were designed to help members to cope with the illness, death or unemployment of a household's breadwinner. Each month members, mostly men, paid into the society, often at a meeting in a pub and in return payments from the pooled funds were made to ill members and to...
The world in 1913: friendly societies
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Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum
Primary History article
Since the early days of the National Curriculum, considerable progress has been made to introduce children to an inclusive view of history. The research of the late Hilary Claire (1996) served as a major impetus and now primary teachers strive to ensure that no groups or individuals are marginalised, particularly...
Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum
