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  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Historical Consciousness, Teaching and Understanding History    Articles Peter Lee'Walking backwards into tomorrow' Historical consciousness and understanding history   Robert Guyver and Jon NicholFrom Novice to effective Teacher: a Study of Postgraduate Training and History Pedagogy
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

  • 'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes

      Article
    Notwithstanding the tribal hatred recently shown for each other by a handful of English and Turkish football fanatics, nobody who has travelled in Turkey or taken a holiday in that country can have failed to notice the courtesy and generosity with which visitors are invariably treated. Indeed, one of the...
    'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes

  • Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom

      Teaching History feature
    Big ideas, making connections, citizenship, thinking skills. We were nothing if not ambitious in our planning for this unit for a lower attaining Year 8 group at Langley School in Solihull. Having identified the big ideas which could underpin a dialogue between history and citizenship and make the connections between...
    Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom

  • Cunning Plan 102.1: teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid

      Article
    Cunning Plan for teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid to 13 and 14 year-olds. The rationale behind this teaching unit is manifold: first, it takes away the idea in the children’s minds that all that happened in the twentieth century is world war. Second, it is designed to appeal...
    Cunning Plan 102.1: teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid

  • The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Handing back Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997 - Andrew Whitfield (Read article) Elizabeth I - Susan Doran Western Dress and Ambivelence in the South Pacific - Michael Sturma (Read article) The Middle East in WWII and the British Co-operation with the Zionist Agency - Nicholas Hammond Painted Advertisements...
    The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong

  • The Historian 22

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Palmerston, Man of Paradox, Muriel E. Chamberlain 10 Interpretation: Emperor Hirohito and Japanese History, Alan G.R. Smith 12 Local History: Vernacular Architecture and its Study, R. W. Brunskill 16 Update: The Crusades, Malcolm Bather 19 Education Forum: History 1989, Reform or Reaction, Christine Lloyd 20 Portfolio: Sinews of Wan Royalist Finances...
    The Historian 22

  • The Historian 69: Don't Blame the Messengers

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 The adventures of Peter Porcupine: William Cobbett in the United States, 1792-1800 - Noel Thompson 9 Don't Blame the Messengers: News Agencies Past and Present 16 ‘The War against God': Napoleon, Pope Pius VII and the People of Italy, 1800-1814. 22 Squalor and rough justice in Watford
    The Historian 69: Don't Blame the Messengers

  • An Intimate History of Your Home - Lucy Worsley

      Historian Article
    ‘You've gone over to The Dark Side'. These were the words of a well-respected historian to whom I'd been enthusing about the pleasures and perils of Dressing Up. During 2009-10 I spent several months in historic costume, recreating the habits and rituals of domestic life in the past. It was...
    An Intimate History of Your Home - Lucy Worsley

  • Teaching History 132: Historians in the Classroom

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 Obituary: Martin Hunt 1936-2007   04 HA Secondary News 05 Cultivating curiosity about complexity: what happens when Year 12 start to read Orlando Figes’ The Whisperers? – Laura Bellinger (Read article) 16 ‘Billy plays the drums but Lizzie cannot play.’ Will music-making help them both anyway? Year...
    Teaching History 132: Historians in the Classroom

  • 'Women and Children first!' a lost tale of Empire and Heroism

      Historian article
    In January 1852, under the command of Captain Robert Salmond, HMS Birkenhead left Portsmouth carrying troops and officers' wives and families from ten different regiments. Most were from the 73rd Regiment of Foot, and were on their way to South Africa to fight the Xhosa in the 8th Kaffir War (1850-1853),...
    'Women and Children first!' a lost tale of Empire and Heroism

  • John Wilkes 1725-1797: A Man of Principle

      Historian article
    For Lord North in 1775, one John Wilkes was enough, ‘though ... to do him justice, it was not easy to find many such'. The impact of Wilkes between 1760 and 1780 was profound, a cause as much as a person. For Philip Francis, thought to be the satirist ‘Junius',...
    John Wilkes 1725-1797: A Man of Principle

  • The world on the wall: exploring diversity on Hadrian's Wall

      Article
    Built in AD 122 by the order of the Emperor Hadrian, the 73 mile (80 Roman miles) long frontier goes from Bownesson-Solway in Cumbria to Wallsend on the River Tyne. Since 1987, the area has been inscribed as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage Site....
    The world on the wall: exploring diversity on Hadrian's Wall

  • Including the Muslim Contribution in the National Curriculum for History

      Article
    History education has a key role to play in creating the informed, critical attachment of young people to the nation and in creating the feeling that young people belong and can participate in national life. The Curriculum for Cohesion Team, comprising Muslim and non-Muslim academics and community leaders, believes that...
    Including the Muslim Contribution in the National Curriculum for History

  • Helping Year 9 evaluate explanations for the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    ‘It made my brain hurt, but in a good way': helping Year 9 learn to make and to evaluate explanations for the Holocaust Why genocides occur is a perplexing and complex question. Leanne Judson reports a strategy designed to help students think about perpetration and evaluate and propose explanations for...
    Helping Year 9 evaluate explanations for the Holocaust

  • Story telling: how can we imagine the past?

      Primary History article
    Story and its bedfellow narrative with their chronological spines are central to children ‘Doing History' and developing a sense of personal identity within a national context. Grant Bage raises the role of storytelling, using dramatic moments to develop understanding...
    Story telling: how can we imagine the past?

  • Using feature films as a means of enhancing history teaching in the primary school

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Although I have always been fascinated by history and almost took it as my major subject at university, I have to admit that the bulk of my ‘knowledge' about historical people and events was shaped...
    Using feature films as a means of enhancing history teaching in the primary school

  • Why the OBE survived the Empire

      Historian article
    An anomaly of the British honours system is the name of the award most frequently given - the Order of the British Empire created in 1917. Each medal carries the words: ‘For God and the Empire'. When the connection between the person honoured and the church is often very tenuous...
    Why the OBE survived the Empire

  • Polychronicon 122: The Gunpowder Plot

      Teaching History feature
    Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' focuses on interpretations of the Gunpowder Plot.
    Polychronicon 122: The Gunpowder Plot

  • A cuisine fit for wartime: history and practices of Ukrainian cooking

      Historian article
    Olena Braichenko examines the most common dishes of Ukrainian cuisine, describing the culinary traditions of the indigenous people of Ukraine – the Crimean Tatars. She explains how the Soviet past influenced the gastronomic culture of Ukrainians and what peculiarities of Ukrainian culinary behaviour contribute to stability and survival in the...
    A cuisine fit for wartime: history and practices of Ukrainian cooking

  • Four objects in search of a story: why artefacts matter in history

      Primary History article
    The well-known children’s historical fiction author Tom Palmer relates how he uses artefacts as an important element in encouraging children to read and engage with history. The examples are from the First and Second World Wars, but artefacts from any period can make an excellent stimulus as well as an...
    Four objects in search of a story: why artefacts matter in history

  • Case study: Creative approaches to learning about the Bristol blitz

      Primary History article
    The University of the West of England, Bristol has strong partnerships with many local schools and is developing innovative ways in working with trainees, teachers and children. The approach taken to learning about the Bristol Blitz provides an example of this partnership.  The Bristol Blitz day The day was planned to...
    Case study: Creative approaches to learning about the Bristol blitz

  • A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs

      Teaching History article
    Holocaust imagery is very familiar, clichéd even. How can we get pupils thinking about it in novel ways and seeing differently? Phillips reports work completed with his PGCE students, proposes a scaffold of questions with which to deconstruct images and applies it to  archive images and to Hollywood representations. Images...
    A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs

  • The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions

      Article
    Dr Michael Bush investigates the interpretations of the pilgrimage of grace. Our perception of the pilgrimage of grace has been largely created by Madeleine and Ruth Dodds and their magnificent book The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-7, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 (Cambridge). Published in 1915, it has dominated the subject...
    The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions

  • The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    2 The birth of the modern Olympics - Michael Biddiss (Read article) 8 The insanity of Henry VI - Carole Rawcliffe (Read article) 13 Trewarthenick, Cornwall: the ancestral home of the Gregor family - Christine North (Read article) 16 Minority Rights and Wrongs in Eastern Europe in the 20th Century -...
    The Historian 50: The Birth of the modern Olympics

  • Creativity in teaching and learning at the Geffrye Museum

      Article
    Learning and education has always been an essential and central part of the Geffrye museum's purpose. Twice winners of the highly prestigious Sandford Award for Heritage Education, most recently in 2012, our professional learning team works with a broad range of audiences to develop and deliver a wide variety of...
    Creativity in teaching and learning at the Geffrye Museum