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  • The Historian 154: Jubilee

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial  (Read article for free) 6 (Un)exceptional women: queenship and power in medieval Europe – Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Storey (Read article) 10 Dress becomes her: the appearance and apparel of Elizabeth II – Benjamin Linley Wild (Read article) 15 Reviews 16 The throne and the fairy tellers –...
    The Historian 154: Jubilee

  • The Battle of Waterloo: Sunday 18 June 1815

      Historian article
    John Morewood explores the events of 18 June 1815 in detail and asks just how accurate is our view of what happened on the field of Waterloo. Summary Waterloo is the most famous battle in a four-battle campaign fought from 15 June to 19 June 1815. On one side were...
    The Battle of Waterloo: Sunday 18 June 1815

  • Government and Society in Late Medieval Spain

      Classic Pamphlet
    Government and Society in Late Medieval Spain: From the accession of the House of Trastámara to Ferdinand and IsabellaThe history of late medieval Spain is usually seen as a tiresome introduction to the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella. Modern historians tend to portray them as ‘new monarchs',...
    Government and Society in Late Medieval Spain

  • Will China Democratise?

      Historian article
    Michael T. Davis compares the parallels between the democratic expectations, or possibilities, of modern-day China with Britain's democratic evolution from the eighteenth century to the emerging democracy of the nineteenth century. The future is an unfamiliar place for historians. Yet we stand on the edge of an historic shift away...
    Will China Democratise?

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

      Teaching History feature
    The historiography of the British Empire has taken a long course since the era of decolonisation. Political histories of the late twentieth century considered the mechanisms connecting crises at the ‘periphery’ with metropolitan decision-making. One rather overused stereotype was the so-called ‘man on the spot’ pushing empire forward, be they...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

  • Case Study: Historical information and the local community

      Primary History article
    The ICT revolution A paper register, a pink-lined A4 mark book and a written school log book are surely historical artefacts? The transition from paper to digital technology continues, changing the world of the classroom teacher whose working life like mine, began in the print age when digital-based education was...
    Case Study: Historical information and the local community

  • Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Gruesome!’ was how we decided to describe our teaching of seventeenth-century British history, although ‘inadequate’ was probably more accurate. Oh, how much was wrong!  We had… Incoherence. The Civil War and Protectorate years plonked in between the Elizabethan Age and the origins of the industrial revolution. We had lost years! A...
    Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714

  • Absence and myopia in A-level coursework

      Teaching History article
    It is a charge commonly laid at history teachers that we, myopically, teach only the same-old same-old. Steven Driver has taken extreme steps to avoid this by focusing on a particular neglected event – the American occupation of Nicaragua in the early twentieth century – as part of his preparation...
    Absence and myopia in A-level coursework

  • 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

  • The Historian 163: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 163: Ukraine The third year of Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine is slowly drawing to a close, with no end to it in sight. Putin’s decision to send troops into Ukraine in hope of a quick capitulation was, however, only the last stage of a longer process...
    The Historian 163: Out now

  • Jacobitism

      Classic Pamphlet
    In recent years, the debate over the nature, extent, and influence of the Jacobite movement during the 70 years following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 has become one of the new growth industries among professional historians, spawning scholarly quarrels almost as ferocious as those which characterised ‘the Cause' itself.The term...
    Jacobitism

  • The Historian 81: Maida Vale and the battle of Maida

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 Radiating the Revolution: Agitation in the Russian Civil War 1917-21 - Richard Taylor (Read article) 12 Look Back – But Not in Anger? A Manchester Boyhood - Donald Read (Read article) 17 Pressure and Persuasion Canadian agents and Scottish emigration, c. 1870 – c. 1930 - Marjory Harper...
    The Historian 81: Maida Vale and the battle of Maida

  • 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

  • Penruddock's Rising 1655

      Classic Pamphlet
    Three hundred years ago John Penruddock of Compton Chamberlayne and a dozen other brave men paid with their lives for their failure to raise the West Country in the name of King Charles II against the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. They had been in arms barely four days, and their...
    Penruddock's Rising 1655

  • Vichy France and the Jews

      Article
    Dr Julian Jackson examines the position and treatment of Jews in Occupied France. When in 1945 France came to try those who had ‘collaborated’ during the war, the fate of the Jews was not central. It was even possible for Xavier Vallat, Vichy’s Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, to defend himself...
    Vichy France and the Jews

  • Teaching History 142: Experiencing History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Rachel Foster - Passive receivers or constructive readers? Pupils' experiences of an encounter with academic history (Read article) 14 Lindsay Cassedy, Catherine Flaherty and Michael Fordham - Seeing the historical world: exploring how students perceive the relationship between historical interpretations (Read article) 22...
    Teaching History 142: Experiencing History

  • Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities

      Teaching History journal article
    Recognising the duty placed on all teachers by the 2010 Equality Act to nurture the development of a society in which equality and human rights are deeply rooted, Helen Snelson and Ruth Lingard were prompted to ask whether their history curricula really reflected the diverse pasts of all people in...
    Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities

  • Ideas for Assemblies: Battle of the Somme

      Article
    Commemorating the Battle of the Somme through an assembly is not an easy task and one which needs careful thought and preparation. This battle officially started on 1 July 1916, after a week-long artillery bombardment, though both British and French commanders had prepared for the offensive for several months. To highlight...
    Ideas for Assemblies: Battle of the Somme

  • Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’?

      Historian article
    Tracy Borman examines the femininity of the Virgin Queen. Elizabeth I is often hailed as a feminist icon. Despite being the younger, forgotten daughter of Henry VIII with little hope of ever inheriting the throne, she became his longest-reigning and most successful heir by a country mile. In an age when...
    Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’?

  • Teaching History 151: Continuity

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Rachel Foster - The more things change, the more they stay the same: developing students' thinking about change and continuity (Read article) 18 Polychronicon: The Revolution of 1688 - Ted Vallance (Read article) 20 Cunning Plan: The 'Glorious' revolution of 1688...
    Teaching History 151: Continuity

  • 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

  • The Scottish Enlightenment

      Classic Pamphlet
    In recent decades, Scotland's distinctive contribution to the Enlightenment has been of increasing interest to scholars. Often very remarkable in an analytical view, such studies may nevertheless miss their sense of the story by treating Scottish insight in abstraction from Scottish life. Taking a more concrete approach, the present study...
    The Scottish Enlightenment

  • Primary History 62: History & ICT

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Editorial and In My View 04 Editorial 05 Using ICT to develop pupils' historical knowledge, understa nding and thinking the view from Ofsted - Michael Maddison HMI 06 The digital revolution - Jerome Freeman (Read article) 07 History, ICT and the digital age - Ben Walsh (Read article) Features 08 Diogenes:...
    Primary History 62: History & ICT

  • Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to 'freeborn John'

      Historian article
    When was Magna Carta launched on its modern career as a symbol of freedom and liberty? Justin Champion looks at the role of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century lawyers and politicians in shaping how we see the Charter today. ‘For every person who knows what the contents of Magna Carta actually...
    Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to 'freeborn John'

  • Primary History 47: Thinking through history

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    This special edition of Primary History is supported by the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth. 04 Editorial: Thinking through history: opportunity for equality 06 In my view: we must support gifted historians from an early age – Lord Adonis 07 In my view: why we need a national...
    Primary History 47: Thinking through history