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  • The Historian 124: Friend or Foe?

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 An interview with Linda Colley (Watch the interview) 11 The President's Column 12 Friend or foe? Foreigners in England in the later Middle Ages - Mark Ormrod (Read Article) 18 Daniel Defoe, public opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union - Ted Vallance (Read Article) 23 Memorial...
    The Historian 124: Friend or Foe?

  • Teaching History 175: Out now

      24th June 2019
    The effort to discern hidden voices is intrinsic to the integrity of historical practice. The professional historian poring over primary sources strives to establish who can be heard in any text or artefact, which voices are being inadvertently favoured or what light further voices might shed on the question in...
    Teaching History 175: Out now

  • Daniel Defoe, public opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union

      Historian article
    There is a tendency to represent Daniel Defoe as a novelist and satirical journalist who was at one point placed in the London stocks as a punishment. Ted Vallance's article broadens our perspective to appreciate Defoe's activities as a propagandist in both England and Scotland... The September 2014 referendum on...
    Daniel Defoe, public opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union

  • Lord North: The Noble Lord in the Blue Ribbon

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the last weeks of his life Lord North, we are told, expressed anxiety about his place in history - ‘how he stood and would stand in the world'. This, he owned, ‘might be a weakness, but he could not help it'. It was a weakness one suspects that he...
    Lord North: The Noble Lord in the Blue Ribbon

  • The British General Strike 1926

      Classic Pamphlet
    ‘The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin.' (Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, 6th May 1926). ‘The General Council does not challenge the Constitution ... the sole aim of the Council is to secure for the miners a decent standard of life. The Council...
    The British General Strike 1926

  • The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa

      Classic Pamphlet
    The dissolution of colonial empires since the Second World War is a major theme of contemporary history, and one which will challenge historians for many years to come. There are still sharp disagreements as to how this change should be described. European scholars tend to use the term ‘decolonization' (at...
    The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa

  • King Charles I

      Classic Pamphlet
    The principles involved in the great religious and constitutional conflicts of the seventeenth century are so important to us today, that it seems desirable on the occasion of the present tercentenary to lay before the members of the Historical Association some means of examining and re-examining their views on the...
    King Charles I

  • Memorial Oaks at Wolsingham School

      Historian article
    Our World War I commemorative series continues with Robert Hopkinson's introduction to what the Imperial War Museum believes is the oldest war memorial in Britain. Wolsingham School and Community College, in Weardale, County Durham, celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2014. As part of the celebrations, there was an exhibition, a...
    Memorial Oaks at Wolsingham School

  • Primary History 68

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    The range of articles in this edition as ever cover discreet methodology, subject knowledge enhancement and areas of innovation set within the context of excellence in the classroom. The inclusion of the Mayan and Indus Valley civilisations will hopefully encourage teachers to look at the rich source of learning to...
    Primary History 68

  • Ideas for Assemblies: Lest we forget

      Primary History feature
    Over the next three editions of Primary History our assemblies pages will be linked to the theme of commemorating the First World War. We have found that while many teachers wish to remember these events in school, they are unsure how to approach the subject with primary aged children. It...
    Ideas for Assemblies: Lest we forget

  • The Coming of War in 1939

      Classic Pamphlet
    I. The Legacy of VersaillesThe Outbreak of a second world war on 1 September 1939 might have been expected to produce in due course a great controversy on ‘war guilt'. But there has been nothing comparable with the debate which took place during the 1920s on the 1914 issues. The angel...
    The Coming of War in 1939

  • Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Fred North treats ‘Assessment for Learning' as though it is a bolt-on extra unconnected to his learning objectives Fred is an enthusiastic trainee who has generally made a good impression on students and colleagues over the course of his first term. He has been determined to establish a...
    Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

  • Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War

      Teaching History feature
    With the publication in 2014 of the Cambridge History of the  First World War, we enter a new transnational phase in the historical understanding of the conflict. The reasons why this change has come about are evident. The first is that there are more transnational historians writing the history of...
    Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War

  • Francis I and Absolute Monarchy

      Classic Pamphlet
    Francis I of France reign lasted for more than thirty years and coincided with movements as significant as the Renaissance and the Reformation. Text-books are apt to gloss over the domestic history of France before the outbreak of the Wars of Religion and convey the impression that Francis was more...
    Francis I and Absolute Monarchy

  • Sir Francis Dent and the First World War

      Historian article
    Not your typical soldier, not your typical service The term ‘citizen soldier' evokes a particularly powerful image in Britain. The poignant histories of the ‘Pals' Battalions' cast a familiar, often tragic shadow over the popular memory of the First World War. Raised according to geographical and occupational connections, names such...
    Sir Francis Dent and the First World War

  • Oliver Cromwell 1658-1958

      Classic Pamphlet
    Ever since the death of Oliver Cromwell 300 years ago his reputation has been the subject of controversy. The royalist view of him was expressed by Clarendon: "a brave bad mad," an ambitious hypocrite. This interpretation was supported by many former Parliamentarians: Edmund Ludlow regarded Cromwell as the lost leader...
    Oliver Cromwell 1658-1958

  • Primary History 67

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial 05 HA Primary News 06 Why stories? Hilary Cooper (Read article) 08 Chronology: developing a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain's past and of the wider world - Hilary Cooper (Read article) 16 Teaching ancient Egypt - Karin Doull (Read article) 22 Ideas for Assemblies: significant women in...
    Primary History 67

  • 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

  • Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front

      Teaching History article
    Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front to help pupils take a more critical approach to what they encounter The first year of the government's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme is now under way, allowing increasing numbers of students from across Britain...
    Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front

  • Teaching History 155: Teaching About WW1

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Rachel Foster - A world turned molten: helping Year 9 to explore the cultural legacies of the First World War (Read article) 20 Mary Brown and Carolyn Massey - Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build...
    Teaching History 155: Teaching About WW1

  • The Planning of a History Syllabus for Schools

      Classic Pamphlet
    In 1944, in response to the Education Act, the HA issued a report with input from teachers and academics on the planning of a school history syllabus. In the context of current discussions about a review of the school curriculum the 1944 report makes interesting reading.
    The Planning of a History Syllabus for Schools

  • The Black Leveller

      Historian Article
    History is rarely far removed from today's concerns. What is true of history in general is true of biography; specifically. Darcus Howe: a political biography is no exception. In writing it, we were consciously intervening in current debates about Britain and ‘race'. The impetus to write emerged in 2008 during...
    The Black Leveller

  • Teaching History 128: Beyond the Exam

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    04 Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods – Kate Hammond (Read article) 11 Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600 – Sally Burnham (Read article) 18 Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and...
    Teaching History 128: Beyond the Exam

  • Looking through a Josephine-Butler shaped window: focusing pupils' thinking on historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Christine Counsell draws upon her recent work in developing definitions and practice concerning pupils' thinking about historical significance. Here she tries out those ideas in relation to the 19th century campaigner against the Contagious Diseases Acts,  Josephine Butler. Counsell explains why she developed her own set of criteria for structuring...
    Looking through a Josephine-Butler shaped window: focusing pupils' thinking on historical significance

  • 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