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3 Feature: The Ending of a Myth: The Fall of Singapore, 1942, Joseph Kennedy
9 Update: The Conservative Party and British Politics 1902-40, Stuart Ball
12 Education Forum: The Job of an Archives Education Officer, Mary Mills
28 Spotlight: Sheffield
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3 Feature: Looking Back on the Levellers, Austin Woolrych
10 Update: The Vietnam War, Peter Riddick
13 Education Forum: History in the National Curriculum and All That: Year One, Ian Coulson
14 Communications: County Records Office, F.B. Stitt
18 Local History: Managing the Past: Archaeology in the National Parks, Robert...
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The Historian 35
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Featured articles:
3 Feature: Charlemagne, Stuart Airlie
10 Update: Did the Liberals still have a Future in 1914?, Geoffrey Searle
13 Record Linkage: Perceptions of the Public Record Office, Sarah Tyacke
16 Anniversary: The Massacre of Glencoe, Allan Macinnes
19 Report: History in Higher Education: A Change That's Purely Academic,...
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Featured articles:
3 Feature: Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier, Margaret Walsh
10 Update: Medieval Women, Patricia Skinner
13 Anniversary: Tunnel Under the Thames, R.A. Buchanan
18 Project: Interviews with Historians, Pat Thane
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Featured articles:
3 Feature: Byron, Romanticism and the Independence of Greece, Julian Robinson
9 Update: Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1500-1707, Michael Lynch
12 Education Forum: Museum Education and the National Currculum, Maureen Lochrie
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The Historian 39
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3 Feature: The Black Death, James L. Bolton
10 Update: The Causes of British Imperialism: Battle Rejoined, Muriel Chamberlain
13 Biography: Sir Humphry Davy, 1778-1829: A Life Too Long? David M. Knight
16 Historiography: Historical Atlases Reconsidered, Jeremy Black
22 Personalia: Chris Wrigley
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Civilian expertise in war
Historian article
Philip Hamlyn Williams introduces us to the commercial and industrial background to modern-day warfare.
When I think of war, I immediately see men and women in one of three uniforms: Royal Navy, RAF and Army. My research over the past seven years into how the British army was supplied in two...
Civilian expertise in war
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The Historian 41
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Featured articles
3 Feature: Greek Oracles and Greek Democracy, Hugh Bowden
9 Update: Dark Age Italy, Ross Balzaretti
12 Education Forum: The Young Historian Scheme, John Fines
28 Spotlight: The Vacation School, Hull
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The Historian 43
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Featured articles
3 Feature: Henry the Great? - E.W. Ives
9 Update: Eisenhower - Peter Boyle
13 Historiography: The Historical Novel: History as Fiction and Fiction as History - David Powell
16 Historiography: Has History Ceased to be Relevant? - Alan Bullock
21 Education Forum: The National Trust - Tricia Lankester...
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The Historian 46
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3 Feature: Images of English Queens in the Later Middle Ages - Elizabeth Danbury
11 Local History: The Reformation and the Parish Church: Local Responses to National Directives - Joe Bettey
15 Education Forum: History in the Primary School: the Curriculum Review (- or Sir Ron'sother Lottery) - Roy Hughes
16 Record...
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Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns
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Trevor James offers a case study in how to define and identify inns as part of the historic urban environment.
Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns had a remarkable and formative effect on its urban landscape, an effect which still endures into modern times. Topographers and...
Croydon’s Tudor and Stuart inns
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The Historian 45
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Featured articles
3 Assessing British India - P.J. Marshall
9 Local History: W.G. Hoskins and the Local Springs of English History - Charles Phythian-Adams
25 Education Forum: Current Challenges and Developments in the Teaching of History in Northern Ireland: To teach the history of Northern Ireland or not? - Carmel Gallagher
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Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War
Teaching History feature
A quarter-century on from 1989-91, with a large amount of archive and media material available, these epic years are ripe for historical analysis. Yet their proximity to our time also throws up challenging questions about the practice of ‘contemporary history’, and the complexity of events raises larger issues about how...
Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War
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History Abridged: Libraries
Historian feature
History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles
The collecting of stories through written record is one of the most important methods societies...
History Abridged: Libraries
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What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing
Teaching History feature
Writing history is hard! But the things that make it challenging are the things that make it worth doing. They are also the key to enabling all students to write, to embrace the challenge and to enjoy its rewards enough to keep going. A big mistake is to kid ourselves...
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Teaching Britain’s ‘civil rights’ history
Teaching History article
Hannah Elias and Martin Spafford begin this article by explaining why they believe it is essential for young people to learn about the ‘heterogeneous, rich and complex’ history of the struggle for civil rights in Britain. Drawing on their diverse experiences of researching, writing and teaching history at school and university...
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Did all Ancient Greek women stay at home and weave?
Primary History article
We tend to focus on the bigger picture in teaching on the Ancient Greeks – democracy; Olympic Games; architecture; theatre; myths and legends – but children love the minutiae of everyday life. And half of the population of Ancient Greece was female. So just what part in life did women play? And how different was it to that of men?...
Did all Ancient Greek women stay at home and weave?
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Cunning Plan 185… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design
Teaching History feature
Many history teachers have been busy making space in their curriculum plans for different sorts of histories. This process, as Priyamavda Gopal has argued (in response to claims that moves to decolonise the curriculum constitute an attempt to censor history by editing out those bits viewed as ‘stains’ on the nation’s...
Cunning Plan 185… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design
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Where are we and where are we going?
Teaching History article
Richard Harris draws on their own and others’ research to take stock of where the history teaching community is in terms of curriculum thinking. Harris argues that despite a number of positive developments in recent years, certain issues continue to have undesirable effects on curriculum design. Such issues include inertia...
Where are we and where are we going?
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Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
Teaching History article
As part of her department’s effort to diversify the history curriculum, Paula Worth began a quest to research and then shape a lesson sequence around the Inkas. Her article shows how she allowed the new topic and its historiography to challenge and extend her own use of sources, particularly oral tradition....
Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
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The Historian 86: England Arise!
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Featured articles:
8 England Arise! The General Election of 1945 – Keith Laybourn (Read article)
16 The Last Duke of Lorraine – Richard Arnold Jones (Read article)
23 Thomas Muir and the 'Scottish Martyrs' of the 1790s – Harry Dickinson (Read article)
36 Cheshire Country Houses and the Rise of the Nouveaux Riches –...
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Significant Individuals: Charles Darwin
Primary History article
Charles Darwin: exploring the man behind the beard – studying the lives of significant individuals in the past
Studying the life of Charles Darwin is an exciting way to meet the requirement in Key Stage 1 to teach significant individuals. But what do we actually know about him, beyond the...
Significant Individuals: Charles Darwin
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Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level
Teaching History feature
There is a wealth of literature arguing for the importance of accommodating a wide range of perspectives and experiences in school history curricula. Many have contended that it is crucial to include the stories of those traditionally omitted from historical records in order to teach history well. Others have emphasised...
Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level
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Admiral Lord Mountbatten: man of science and royal role model
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Mountbatten was a controversial figure who died in tragic circumstances but Adrian Smith demonstrates that, behind his aristocratic facade, he was a very adept, talented and formative personality.
Four years have passed since the re-opening of Broadlands, the Hampshire home of Lord and Lady Brabourne. The house was subject to...
Admiral Lord Mountbatten: man of science and royal role model
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History 371
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 371
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