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Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum
Teaching History article
Mike Hill was concerned that his students were unable to genuinely inhabit the historical places they encountered in his lessons. Drawing on fields as varied as history-teacher research, philosophy, and literary and media theory, Hill identified ways to curate his students’ constructions of ‘secondary worlds’ in the historical past, including...
Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum
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Teaching History 183: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
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Collectively, the articles in this edition say something profound about the joy and privilege of being a history teacher. In our intellectual journeying, none of us can ever stand still. Conversations within and across societies and cultures never stop. Such conversations interact with the work...
Teaching History 183: Out now
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Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
Teaching History article
When planning a Key Stage 3 curriculum with his department, Will Bailey-Watson began to question some of the commonsense orthodoxies regarding chronological sequencing and curriculum design. Drawing on pre-existing debates about curricular structuring in the history education community both in England and internationally, Bailey-Watson identified cognitive, motivational, and disciplinary justifications...
Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
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Primary History 73
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial
05 HA Primary News
06 How do pupils understand historical time? Some evidence from England and the Netherlands - Marjan De Groot-Reuvekamp and Penelope Harnett (Read article)
10 Time for a story: using stories in the Early Years and Foundation Stage - Sue Temple (Read article)
12 So was...
Primary History 73
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History 356
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 103, Issue 356
Articles
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Narrating Europe: (Re)Thinking Europe and its Many Pasts (pp 385-400), Matthew D'Auria, Jan Vermeiren
Meanings of Europe and Meaning in History (pp 401-417), Rolf Petri
Civilization, Modernity and Europe: The Making and Unmaking of a Conceptual...
History 356
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Primary History 95: Out now
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
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Welcome to Primary History 95! We are now well into the first term of the new school year, and it is heartening to know that children around the country will have been rediscovering the joy of history once again.
As historians we are privileged to explore the treasures...
Primary History 95: Out now
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Primary history and British values
Article
In this article, Michael Maddison provides an overview of what schools must do in relation to promoting British values, as well as preventing extremism and radicalisation, and why it is so important that opportunities are taken in history to deal with these two pressing issues. It is an updated version...
Primary history and British values
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History 354
The Journal of the Historical Association
‘Give mee a Souldier's Coat’: Female Cross-Dressing during the English Civil War(pages 5–26) Mark Stoyle
‘Other Spaces’ for the Dangerous Dead of Provincial England, c.1752–1832 (pages 27–59) Elizabeth T. Hurren (Open Access)
The Inquisition and the Repression of Erotic and Pornographic Imagery in Early Nineteenth-Century Madrid (pages 60–81) François Soyer
From Macro-Nationalism to Anti-Imperialism:...
History 354
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Primary History 92
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
06 HA Update
08 Teaching about Remembrance Day in EYFS – Jenny Munro, Paige Hazell, Tanya Wasik, Rianna Kelly and Helen Crawford (Read article)
12 The new King – Karin Doull (Read article)
16 ‘Remember, remember the Fifth of November!’ Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit...
Primary History 92
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History 353
The Journal of the Historical Association
Political Culture and Medieval Historiography: The Revolt against King Henry II, 1173–1174 (pages 752–771) Martin Aurell
'Ottonians with Pipe Rolls'? Political Culture and Performance in the Kingdom of the English, c.900–c.1050 (pages 772–786) Charles Insley
Giving and Receiving Counsel: Forging Political Culture in Western French and Anglo-Norman Assemblies (pages 787–807)...
History 353
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Primary History 89
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
06 HA Update
08 How have schools interpreted the new EYFS Framework – including the introduction of the ‘Past and Present’ ELG? – Simon Ellis and Mackay Howe (Read article)
12 Teaching ‘these islands’ from prehistoric times to 1066 – Paul Bracey (Read article)
20...
Primary History 89
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History 359
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 359
Guest editors: Catherine Kelly and Joan Tumblety
Articles
Medical Doctors and Persuasion: Introduction (pp 5-18),Catherine Kelly, Joan Tumblety – Free access
Surgery, Identity and Embodied Emotion: John Bell, James Gregory and the Edinburgh ‘Medical War’ (pp 19-41), Michael Brown – Open access
‘Upon my word, I do not see the use of...
History 359
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Pull-out posters: Primary History 86
Re-imagining statues: how should we do this? and Historical fiction prizes: Summer 2020
Re-imagining statues: how should we do this?
Historical fiction prizes: Summer 202
Pull-out posters: Primary History 86
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History 352
The Journal of the Historical Association
Clerical admonitio, Letters of Advice to Kings and Episcopal Self-Fashioning,c.1000–c.1200 (pages 557–575) Björn Weiler
Oceanic Barriers: The British–American Divide among Revolutionary Black Atlantic Writers (pages 576–596) Kyle T. Bulthuis
'Of Paramount Importance to Our Race': H. O. Arnold-Forster and South African Soldier-Settlement (pages 597–616) Christian K. Melby
Demystified: Mergers and...
History 352
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History 358
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 103, Issue 358
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Subversive Acts: The Early Charters of the Borough of Beverley (pp 719-736), David X Carpenter Richard Sharpe
Early American and Contemporary European Conceptions of the Nation, 1763–1789 (pp 737-757), Dean Kostantaras
Man about Town: Victorian Night Life...
History 358
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Primary History 91
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
06 HA Update
10 Exploring the past through active enquiry – Karin Doull (Read article)
13 Coherence in primary history: how can we get children to see that their history links up? – Tim Lomas (Read article)
20 The Great Exhibition of 1851: teaching a significant...
Primary History 91
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History 351
The Journal of the Historical Association
Disciplinary Ordinances for English Armies and Military Change, 1385–1513 (pages 361–385) Andrew Martinez
Saving Republics by Moving Republicans: Britain, Ireland and ‘New Geneva’ During the Age of Revolutions (pages 386–413) Richard Whatmore
The Religious ‘Persecutions’ in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and British Sympathy for Italian Nationalism, 1851–1853 (pages 414–431)...
History 351
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History 357
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 103, Issue 357
Articles
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A Riposte to Clive Holmes, ‘The Trial and Execution of Charles I’ (pp 525-544), Sean Kelsey
Leopold I, Louis XIV, William III and the Origins of the War of the Spanish Succession (pp 545-570), Wouter Troost...
History 357
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Primary History 60: Writing History & Literacy
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Editorial and In My View
04 Editorial: Writing history and historical literacy
05 Writing history - Jackie Eales
06 Children writing history - John Fines (Read article)
Features
08 Think Bubble - Writing from experience - Peter Vass (Read article)
09 A view from the classroom - Cathie McIlroy...
Primary History 60: Writing History & Literacy
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Out and About in Medieval Toulouse
Historian article
David Pearse takes us to the historic heart of France’s fourth-largest city.
Looking at the street plan
Bordering the River Garonne, medieval Toulouse extends as far as the Basilica of St Sernin but is concentrated in an area bounded approximately by the Jacobins’ Church to the north, St Etienne Cathedral...
Out and About in Medieval Toulouse
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Primary History 90
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article)
06 HA Update
10 Jubilee medals: celebration and creation – Polly Gillow (Read article)
12 The Queen in procession – Karin Doull (Read article)
15 Significance and interpretation: what are these concepts and why are they important in primary history? – Glenn Carter (Read article)
22 Happy and Glorious:...
Primary History 90
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History 386-387
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 109, Issue 386-387
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State of the Field: The History of African Political Thought (pp 202-225) – Hugh Pattenden
Conspiracy, Congregation, Company, and Commerce in England, 1680–1688: The Narratives of Edward Massey of Braintree (pp 226-252) – Edward Legon (Open...
History 386-387
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History 350
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles
Alexander of Telese's Encomium of Capua and the Formation of the Kingdom of Sicily (pages 183–200) Paul Oldfield
The Anglo-Scottish War of 1558 and the Scottish Reformation (pages 201–224)Amy Blakeway (Open Access)
African American Citizenship, the 1883 Civil Rights Casesand the Creation of the Jim Crow South (pages 225–241) Stephen...
History 350
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The Tale of Two Winstons
Historian article
Winston Churchill is generally regarded as one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. As Prime Minister he led Britain to victory against the Nazi war machine, leading Time to name him ‘Man of the Year' in 1940 and ‘Man of the Half Century' in 1949. As recently...
The Tale of Two Winstons
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History and language
Primary History article
Pupil writing is present at every point in studying history - from initial questioning to the writing and presentation of a finished piece of work. Children continually explore, acquire and build upon both existing and new historical vocabulary and phrases, p. 30. Writing depends totally upon pupils' linguistic knowledge and...
History and language
