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                                                                                A Commercial Revolution
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Classic Pamphlet
                                                                            
                                    The pattern of overseas trade is always in movement: new commodities are constantly appearing, old ones fading into unimportance, different trading partners coming to the fore-front. But between the latter end of the sixteenth and the second half of the eighteenth century, change took specially far reaching forms. In 1570...
                                    A Commercial Revolution
                                 
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                                                                                What Have Historians Been Arguing About...  immigration in French history
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Historian feature
                                                                            
                                    3 July 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of a significant, yet little known, event in French history: the declaration of an end to the recruitment of economic migrants. Over the previous decades, some three million migrant workers had arrived to surprisingly little fanfare, building the economic growth later mythologized by...
                                    What Have Historians Been Arguing About...  immigration in French history
                                 
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                                                                                Teaching History 109: Examining History
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
                                                                            
                                    This edition asks the question: how do we create worthwhile examination courses that stimulate all pupils and strengthens the gold standard of rigour at the same time? Why we must change history at GCSE, Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge, Ensuring progression continues into GCSE,...
                                    Teaching History 109: Examining History
                                 
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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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                                                                                The Transport Revolution 1750-1830
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Classic Pamphlet
                                                                            
                                    The period 1750-1830, traditionally marking the classical industrial revolution, achieved in Great Britain what Professor Rostow has called the economy's "take-off into self-sustained growth". A revolution in transportation was part of the complex of changes - industrial, agricultural, mercantile and commercial - occurring roughly concurrently.The impetus to transport change is...
                                    The Transport Revolution 1750-1830
                                 
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                                                                                Cunning Plan 167: teaching the industrial revolution
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    ‘Disastrous and terrible.’ For Arnold Toynbee, the historian who gave us the phrase ‘industrial revolution’, these three words sum up the period of dramatic technological change that took place in Britain across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We may not habitually use Toynbee’s description in the classroom, but it is...
                                    Cunning Plan 167: teaching the industrial revolution
                                 
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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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                                                                                The Russian Revolution 100 years on: a view from below
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Sarah Badcock sheds light on how ordinary Russians responded to the revolutions of 1917 that sought to change their lot and bring them freedom.
                                    The Russian Revolution 100 years on: a view from below
                                 
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                                                                                ‘Our March’: art and culture in the Russian Revolution
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Peter Waldron explores the role of art in communicating to the masses the ideas of politics and change in Bolshevik Russia.
                                    ‘Our March’: art and culture in the Russian Revolution
                                 
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                                                                                A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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In my 38 years in history education, the most profound...
                                    A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years
                                 
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                                                                                The French Wars of Religion
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Classic Pamphlet
                                                                            
                                    This classic pamphlet takes you through the French reformation, the first, second and third war of religion, The St Bartholomew's Day massacre and the Fourth War, the later wars, the Catholic League, Henry IV, the nobility, the towns, confessional violence, social contexts and warfare and its costs.
                                    The French Wars of Religion
                                 
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                                                                                The Industrial Revolution in England
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Classic Pamphlet
                                                                            
                                    Revolutions of the magnitude of the industrial revolution in England provoke historical controversy: such a revolution is a major discontinuity which a profession more skilled in explaining small changes finds difficult to understand. A revolution that touches a whole society is so diffuse that its significant events are difficult to...
                                    The Industrial Revolution in England
                                 
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                                                                                What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Teaching History feature
                                                                            
                                    The British industrial revolution stands out as a pivotal moment in human history. Its timing, causes and consequences have all been major topics of historical enquiry for well over one hundred years. Many of the great Victorian commentators – Engels, Dickens, Blake to name a few – who lived through...
                                    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution
                                 
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                                                                                The New Imperialism
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Classic Pamphlet
                                                                            
                                    This Classic Pamphlet first published in 1970 comes with a new introduction written by the author M. E. Chamberlain.The New Imperialism - Introduction by M. E. Chamberlain Professor Emeritus at Swansea University. May 2010.When this pamphlet was first published imperialism was a hot political topic and battle raged between Marxist and...
                                    The New Imperialism
                                 
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                                                                                Cathars and Castles in Medieval France
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Historian article
                                                                            
                                    Almost exactly 800 years ago, in September 1213, a decisive battle was fought at Muret, about ten miles south-west of Toulouse. King Peter II of Aragon, fighting with southern allies from Toulouse and elsewhere, faced an army largely made up of northern French crusaders who had invaded the region at the...
                                    Cathars and Castles in Medieval France
                                 
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                                                                                What Have Historians Been Arguing About... expanding the reach of the American Revolution
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Teaching History feature
                                                                            
                                    The Founding Fathers of the United States of America are never far from current political and cultural discussions. Whether prompted by the phenomenal success of Hamilton: the musical (2015), or the shocking scenes of riotous attack on the US Capitol in January 2021, the revolutionary intentions and legacy of such...
                                    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... expanding the reach of the American Revolution
                                 
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                                                                                The Tudor Court
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Classic Pamphlet
                                                                            
                                    In 1976, in one of his challenging Presidential addresses to the Royal Historical Society, Professor Geoffrey Elton drew attention to the importance of the court as a ‘point of contact' between the Tudors and their subjects. It was, he suggested, a central and essential aspect of personal government, but in...
                                    The Tudor Court
                                 
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                                                                                Napoleon: First Consul and Emperor of the French 
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Four years after the battle of Waterloo, Richard Whately publicised a philosophical essay in which he argued that there was no real proof of Napoleon's existence. The deeds attributed to him were either so wondrously good or so amazingly bad that they far outran the evidence available to support them:...
                                    Napoleon: First Consul and Emperor of the French 
                                 
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                                                                                Perfect liberty and uproar: a short case study
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Edward Washington gives us a fascinating insight into life on an emigration ship – the John Knox – taking a group of orphan girls to Sydney, through a letter written after the voyage by the man charged with improving their education during the sea voyage.
After his arrival in Sydney...
                                    Perfect liberty and uproar: a short case study
                                 
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                                                                                Petit’s impact on our understanding of Victorian life and culture
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    Tiffany Igharoro, a Young Historian Award-winner, introduces us to the artwork of Revd John Louis Petit, showing that art not only reflects the times in which it is created, but can also be used to shape opinions.
The Revd John Louis Petit (1801–68) created thousands of paintings in his lifetime, many of which...
                                    Petit’s impact on our understanding of Victorian life and culture
                                 
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                                                                                Teaching History 54
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
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                                    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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                                                                                Comparing the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Jameson Raid
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Historian article
                                                                            
                                    Duplicated Debacles? A comparison of the 1895-96 Jameson Raid and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. Adam Burns and Robert Gallimore take us on two invasions, one by land and one by sea.
Following the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and the rise to power of the socialist regime of Fidel...
                                    Comparing the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Jameson Raid
                                 
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                                                                                Case Study: The history club
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Primary History article
                                                                            
                                    Editorial note: this is an introductory article on the History Club concept: Primary History 64, summer 2013, on History and the new 2014+ National Curriculum for History will provide a vade mecum for schools to develop their own History Clubs.
.... sometimes we use the past and today, modern times,...
                                    Case Study: The history club
                                 
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                                                                                Bayeux
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Historian article
                                                                            
                                    Bayeux, 23 kilometres west of Caen, was the first French town to be liberated in 1944 - on 7 June in fact, the day after the landings. Yet its origins go much further back than that: its first bishop was consecrated in the fourth century. It became part of Normandy...
                                    Bayeux
                                 
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                                                                                Caroline Court Women, 1625–1669
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                      
                                                                                    Historian article
                                                                            
                                    Aristocratic women at the court of Queen Henrietta Maria from 1625–69 were integral to court life and actively involved in royal service; in court family networks; in dispensing and seeking patronage; and, in political and religious politics. As Sara J. Wolfson shows, it is important to study women at the apex of power...
                                    Caroline Court Women, 1625–1669