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  • India and the British war effort, 1939-1945

      Historian article
    India was vital as a source of men and material for the British in the Second World War, despite the constitutional, social and economic issues which posed threats to its contribution. Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India 1940-5, wrote to Churchill, 8 April 1941: ‘My prime care had naturally...
    India and the British war effort, 1939-1945

  • Changes in an aspect of social history from 1945 to 2000: youth culture

      Primary History article
    A history-themed topic based around music is a popular choice among many teachers and children. Music is after all a thread which runs through all of history, and one through which we can explore many other aspects of life in different times. It can be an exciting avenue into exploring...
    Changes in an aspect of social history from 1945 to 2000: youth culture

  • The Historian 57: Georgian Landscape

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 Georgian Landscape: 18th-century landscape design: the art that disguises art - John Cannon 10 Thomas Jefferson: an icon of American democracy reassessed - Colin Bonwick 11 Men of Genius and learning: rewriting the history of the Scottish Enlightenment - David Allan 20 Gladstone's Death and Funeral - Colin Matthew...
    The Historian 57: Georgian Landscape

  • Using visual sources to understand the arguments for women's suffrage

      Teaching History article
    Visual sources, Jane Card argues, are a powerful resource for historical learning but using them in the classroom requires careful thought and planning. Card here shares how she has used visual source material in order to teach her students about the women's suffrage movement. In particular, Card shows how a...
    Using visual sources to understand the arguments for women's suffrage

  • An American showman P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for all the family

      Historian article
    Refer nowadays to Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-91)—once among the most recognisable and talked about of all nineteenth century Americans— only to conjure up visions of Barnum & Bailey’s three-ring circuses, menageries, acrobats, and Jumbo the elephant. Such images tend to obscure that in 1880, on creation of the famous travelling...
    An American showman P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for all the family

  • The 2007 Medlicott Medal Lecture What kind of history should school history be?

      Historian article
    I need to start by introducing myself. Most of the previous winners of the distinguished Norton Medlicott Medal have been household names, historians who have moved beyond the library shelves to reach wider audiences through the popularity of their books or television programmes. If you looked through the Radio Times...
    The 2007 Medlicott Medal Lecture What kind of history should school history be?

  • Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire

      Teaching History journal feature
    I wanted to give my Year 8 students ownership of their work on the British Empire by allowing them to suggest our ‘enquiry question'. In order to introduce the Empire, I brought in sugar, spices, bananas, chilli peppers and cotton. I then showed maps demonstrating the Empire at its height....
    Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire

  • The British Government's Confidential Files on the United States

      Historian article
    Unpublished papers in Britain's National Archives at Kew reveal curious undercurrents in Anglo-American relations. After the conclusion of the Boer War, for example, the British Army supposed that the next major conflict would be not with Germany but with the U.S. A memo printed for circulation in July 1904 entitled ‘A...
    The British Government's Confidential Files on the United States

  • The Historian 13

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Fiume 1919, John di Folco  6 Feature: Republicanism in Victorian Britain, Robert Woodall 10 Update: The Origins of the Cold War, John Young 14 Education Forum: Michael Biddiss, Alex Cowan
    The Historian 13

  • The Historian 49: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    2 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Alfred R. Smyth 8 Update: Galileo - Michael Sharratt 11 Labour, language and class - John Belchem 17 Profile: Lord Curzon of Kedleston - Harry Bennett 20 Education Forum: Young Historian Prizes - Gordon Batho 20 In memoriam: F. G. Emmison - John Fines
    The Historian 49: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

  • The Historian 85: Lloyd George and Gladstone

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 8 Lloyd George and Gladstone - Chris Wrigley (Read article) 18 Flowers Block The Sun - James Bartlett (Read article) 19 The Friar's Bush - James Bartlett (Read article) 20 George III and America - John Cannon (Read article) 27 Saint Robert and the Deer - Dr. Frank Bottomley (Read article)...
    The Historian 85: Lloyd George and Gladstone

  • The Creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707

      Historian article
    Why did both the parliaments of Scotland and England vote themselves out of existence in 1707 in order to create a new ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’? From an English perspective, there was always a strong feeling that this union did not create a new kingdom and that it certainly...
    The Creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707

  • Polychronicon 112: The Angevin Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its ownage. 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 the 'Polychronicon' concentrates on the...
    Polychronicon 112: The Angevin Empire

  • Year 9 use sources to explore contemporary meanings and understandings of appeasement

      Teaching History article
    After reflecting on the difference between his study of source extracts at university and how he was using source extracts in the classroom, Jonathan Sellin went in search of a new way to help his pupils to situate sources in context. Finding inspiration in the work of intellectual historian Quentin...
    Year 9 use sources to explore contemporary meanings and understandings of appeasement

  • Move Me On 180: feeling unprepared to start as NQT because of Covid-19

      Teaching History feature
    Una Marson had her training interrupted by school closures in response to Covid-19 and feels unprepared to start as an NQT. Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all...
    Move Me On 180: feeling unprepared to start as NQT because of Covid-19

  • Moving Year 9 towards more complex causal explanations of Holocaust perpetration

      Teaching History article
    Building on research by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, Matthew Duncan was concerned that his students were drawn to simplistic explanations of Holocaust perpetrators’ actions. As well as the UCL Centre’s research, Duncan drew on history education research from Canada and history teachers’ theorisation in England for inspiration in...
    Moving Year 9 towards more complex causal explanations of Holocaust perpetration

  • Identity shakers: cultural encounters and the development of pupils' multiple identities

      Teaching History article
    History teachers are increasingly used to the idea that helping pupils reflect on and understand identities is one of the central purposes of history education. In this article Jamie B yrom and Michael Riley reflect on what thinking about identity historically might mean; by considering the history of encounters between...
    Identity shakers: cultural encounters and the development of pupils' multiple identities

  • The Historian 58: Lord Acton's Inaugural

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    2 Lord Acton's Inaugural, John Burrow 7 Local History: Local and Regional History: the Example of North East England, Norman McCord 10  The Victorians and Child Labour, Eric Hopkins 15 Education Forum: Forgotten Corner of Europe?: Scandinavian History in English History Textbooks, Leo Pekkala 16 Gladstone, Ian Machin 20 Tours...
    The Historian 58: Lord Acton's Inaugural

  • Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903

      Historian article
    Isabel Jones from Thomas Mills High School at Framlingham was the winner of the Young Historian Award for Local History [16-19] in 2006. The Director of the Young Historian Project, Trevor James, has edited her winning essay. It has been shortened and the footnotes removed, to enable it to fit...
    Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903

  • The Historian 12

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: A Prisoner's Pursuits: the Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, Gordon R. Batho 10 Record Linkage: Sir Lewis Harcourt and the Foreign Office Telegrams July 1914, Keith Wilson 13 Update: English Politics and Society in the Eighteenth Century, Bill Speck 16 HUDG: Middle Age Spread, John Boume
    The Historian 12

  • Deepening post-16 students' historical engagement with the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Peter Morgan represents what is best about the reflective practitioner - an experienced teacher of some 15 years' standing, he continues to challenge himself and to seek ways to improve and develop his classroom practice. Deeply influenced by the pedagogy and resources that he encountered on the CPD of the Institute...
    Deepening post-16 students' historical engagement with the Holocaust

  • 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

  • What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia

      Teaching History article
    Is it structure or the selection of knowledge that makes writing historical narrative so difficult? Where does a conceptual focus on change, or causation, come in? James Ellis set out to explore the challenges his Year 9 pupils faced in writing historical narratives about change. Inspired by the work of...
    What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia

  • What history should we teach? The HA Primary Survey

      Primary History article
    The government's 2010 White Paper makes clear that the history curriculum will be reviewed. This is the ideal time to consider that very contentious issue - What History Should We Teach? And who better to ask than those who really know and understand what the curriculum will look and feel...
    What history should we teach? The HA Primary Survey

  • The Historian 82: The Spanish Collection

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 The Spanish collection at the Victorian and Albert Museum in London: its inception and development in the Museum's context and conversion policy - Dr Rafael Manuel Pepiol (Read article) 12 The Great Exhibition - Chloe Jeffries (Read article) 18 Stanley Baldwin's reputation - Philip Williamson (Read article) 24 Beware the serpent...
    The Historian 82: The Spanish Collection