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History 373
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 373
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Anchorites, Wise Folk and Magical Practitioners in Twelfth-Century England (pp 709-726) – Tom Licence
A Mother Educating her Daughter Remotely through Familial Correspondence: The Letter as a Form of Female Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century (pp...
History 373
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Teaching History 174: Structure
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary news
04 HA update
08 Austin’s narrative: an exploratory case study, with Year 8, into what kinds of feedback help students produce better historical narratives of the interwar years – Alex Rodker (Read article)
16 Cunning Plan: Teaching Year 8 to create and...
Teaching History 174: Structure
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Using apps in the history curriculum
Primary History article
There are a lot of apps out there on multiple platforms and searching for ‘History’ does not really narrow anything down. Knowing which ones are useful, usable and worth paying for is often a case of trial and error. However, this list will save you trawling through the myriad of...
Using apps in the history curriculum
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Teaching History 195: Perspectives in Time
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 Disembarking the religious rollercoaster: a new ‘direction’ for studying the consequences of the Reformation – Sarah Jackson-Buckley and Jessie Phillips (Read article)
18 ‘Public guardians, bold yet wary’? How visual evidence reflects change and continuity in attitudes to the police in...
Teaching History 195: Perspectives in Time
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Primary History 88
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
05 HA Primary News
06 HA Update
10 How to make a toy museum – Jenny Wilkie (Read article)
12 Arthur Wharton: the world’s first professional black footballer – Matthew Sossick (Read article)
16 Just a pile of stones? Exploring the Rollright Stones as...
Primary History 88
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Knowledge-rich approaches to history
Primary History article
In recent years, there has been growing support from policy makers in England for knowledge-rich curricula which view subjects like history as having cultural capital that all pupils should have access to regardless of background. The work of E.D. Hirsch has been particularly influential in arguing that a lack of...
Knowledge-rich approaches to history
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Teaching History 177: Building Knowledge
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article for free)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Modelling the discipline: how can Yasmin Khan’s use of evidence enable us to teach a more global World War II? – David Hibbert and Zaiba Patel (Read article)
16 Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’...
Teaching History 177: Building Knowledge
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History 371
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 371
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‘Qu'il est question d'une langue sauvage’: Phrasebooks for European Travellers in Eighteenth-Century North America (pp 356-383) – Giulia Iannuzzi (Open Access)
Travel, Expertise and Readers: Francesco Ottieri (1665–1742) and the Writing of Modern History (pp 384-408) –...
History 371
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Teaching the Wars of the Roses in primary history
Primary History article
The Tudors is a relatively popular topic for those Key Stage 2 teachers looking at a theme extending beyond 1066. In this article Matthew Sossick argues that there is a large gap in understanding if pupils understand nothing of how the Tudors emerged as such a dominant dynasty. This means...
Teaching the Wars of the Roses in primary history
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Primary History 83
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
05 HA Primary News
08 Developing early history skills and understanding through the EYFS – Emily Dickenson (Read article)
12 Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade – Susie Townsend (Read article)
18 The Elizabeth cake – Sandra Kirkland (Read article)
21 Turning Technology:...
Primary History 83
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History as a foreign language
Teaching History article
Disappointed that the use of the ‘PEEL’ writing scaffold had led her Year 11 students to write some rather dreary essays, Claire Simmonds reflected that a lack of specific training on historical writing might be to blame. Drawing on genre theory and the work of the history teaching community, Simmonds attempted...
History as a foreign language
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The role of oracy in primary history
Primary History article
East-the-Water is a primary school in Bideford, Devon. It has recently been awarded a Gold Award Quality Mark. Among many strong features, one was the emphasis on using oracy effectively in history. In this article, Kelly Bridle outlines its role, especially in connecting periods and events across the history curriculum using a range of connectors,...
The role of oracy in primary history
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Teaching History 181: Handling Sources
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial: Handling Sources (read article for free)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Being an historian: can online source banks help us to replicate the research experience of historians in the post-16 classroom? – Robin Conway and Amy Scott (read article)
17 'What is history': Africa and the excitement of sources with Year 7 – Adbul Mohamud and Robin...
Teaching History 181: Handling Sources
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Back to basics: using maps in primary history
Primary History article
Maps tend to be more associated with geography but they have always been vital to history. This article focuses on the way maps have evolved in history, what they provide for the historian and ways in which they can be used when teaching primary history. A chronological account of the...
Back to basics: using maps in primary history
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History 365
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 105, Issue 365
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The ‘Holy Days’ of Queen Elizabeth I (pp 201-228) – Natalie Mears, Philip Williamson (Free Access)
The Making of Pombal: Speculation, Diplomacy and the Iberian Enlightenment, c .1714–1755 (pp 229-251) – Edward Jones Corredera
Origins and...
History 365
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History 369
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 369
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More on a Murder: The Deaths of the ‘Princes in the Tower’, and Historiographical Implications for the Regimes of Henry VII and Henry VIII (pp 4-25) – Tim Thornton (Open access)
The Elizabethan Nobility: A Recount...
History 369
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The Holocaust in history and history in the curriculum
Teaching History article
In this powerfully argued article Paul Salmons focuses directly on the distinctive contribution that a historical approach to the study of the Holocaust makes to young people's education. Not only does he question the adequacy of objectives focused on eliciting purely emotional responses; he issues a strong warning that turning...
The Holocaust in history and history in the curriculum
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The Historian 160: Sport in History
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Letters
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Faster, higher, stronger – but don’t try too hard: political and social attitudes underpinning the 1924 Olympics – Steve Illingworth (Read article)
12 Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport – Duncan Stone (Read article)
16 The right to...
The Historian 160: Sport in History
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Promoting rigorous historical scholarship
Teaching History article
The history department at Cottenham Village College has one more member than you might expect. Ruth Brown is a teaching assistant (TA) and one of the longest-standing members of the department, and this article is about how her work has an impact on specific pupils, whole classes and teachers. The key...
Promoting rigorous historical scholarship
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History 368
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 105, Issue 368
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An Experiment in extremity: The Portrayal of Violence in Robert the Monk's Narrative of the First Crusade (pp 719-750) – Thomas Asbridge
Gender, Authority and the Image of Queenship in English and Scottish Ballads, 1553–1603 (pp...
History 368
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History 367
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 105, Issue 367
Articles
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Introduction: Remembering English Saints in 2020 (pp 559-566) – Louise J. Wilkinson, Paul Webster (Open Access)
The Vita Bedae and the Craft of Hagiography (pp 567-587) – Richard Gameson, Fiona Gameson
Understanding and Illustrating the...
History 367
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Teaching the British Empire in primary history
Primary History article
The height of the BBC Proms season is its last night in the Royal Albert Hall. It features traditional patriotic songs such as Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory. Cheerful crowds wave union flags as the magnificent music of Elgar and others swells to a crescendo. Contrast this...
Teaching the British Empire in primary history
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Teaching History 142: Experiencing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Rachel Foster - Passive receivers or constructive readers? Pupils' experiences of an encounter with academic history (Read article)
14 Lindsay Cassedy, Catherine Flaherty and Michael Fordham - Seeing the historical world: exploring how students perceive the relationship between historical interpretations (Read article)
22...
Teaching History 142: Experiencing History
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The importance of history vocabulary
Primary History article
Teachers and schools should surely be forgiven for quickly turning to the pages containing the ‘subject content' - within the new 2014 history curriculum - and finding out ‘what' they should be teaching. This is especially true for Key Stage 2 where children must now learn British history from the...
The importance of history vocabulary
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Creativity in history
Primary History article
Ask anyone for a list of creative subjects in schools and it is unlikely that history will be top of that list. However, over the last two-and-a-half years we have been working as part of a Creativity Collaborative of schools that seeks to foster creativity across the whole curriculum, including...
Creativity in history
