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  • The Historian 138: Hidden stories of a centenary

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Contents 4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Britain’s Jews and the First World War - Paula Kitching (Read article) 13 The President’s Column 14 Journeys Home: Indian forces and the First World War – Kiran Sahota and Paula Kitching (Read article) 20 We will remember them: well, most of...
    The Historian 138: Hidden stories of a centenary

  • A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley

      Historian article
    Sara Read introduces us to a woman who challenged expectations during the turbulent years of the early seventeenth century. In 1622 a pious young woman with a highly unusual first name, Brilliana Conway, sat at her desk doodling her signature on her commonplace book. She had lofty ambitions for her self-development...
    A woman of masculine bravery: the life of Brilliana, Lady Harley

  • Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    A great deal of new writing on the Cold War sits at the crossroads of national, transnational and global perspectives. Such studies can be so self-consciously multi-archival and multipolar, methodologically pluralist in approach and often ‘decentring’ in aim, that some scholars now worry that the Cold War risks losing its coherence as a distinct object of...
    Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War

  • 'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history

      Teaching History article
    As postgraduate historians with teaching responsibilities at the University of York, Bridget Lockyer and Abigail Tazzyman were concerned to tackle some of the challenges reported by their students who had generally only encountered women’s history in a disconnected way through stand-alone topics or modules. Their response was to create a...
    'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history

  • Cambuskenneth books: Looted Scottish law books return to Edinburgh

      Historian article
    Memorandum that Edinburgh was won on 8th day of May in the 36th year of the reign of Henry VIII and year of God 1543 and this book was acquired and brought away by me Wm. Norris of Speke, Knight, on 11th day of May aforesaid and is now the...
    Cambuskenneth books: Looted Scottish law books return to Edinburgh

  • Using the present to construct a meaningful picture of the medieval past

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Jessica Phillips returns to a theme explored in the Historical Association’s publication Exploring and Teaching Medieval History in Schools – the challenge of teaching about the medieval past in ways that acknowledge its vibrant complexity and create a genuine sense of resonance rather than condescension or blank...
    Using the present to construct a meaningful picture of the medieval past

  • Engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about 'progress'

      Teaching History article
    Jonathan White wanted to fill a gap in his students' knowledge of the history of ideas. Despite the appearance of Marx, Smith, Darwin and Malthus in the department's workscheme for Year 9, his Year 13 students appeared to lack any meaningful grasp of these nineteenth-century intellectual reference points. White therefore...
    Engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about 'progress'

  • The Effect of Prior Knowledge on Teaching International History

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract The students’ prior knowledge is considered to be a factor of paramount importance to the learning process, particularly when teaching history in a diverse and multicultural learning environment. This paper explores the issue...
    The Effect of Prior Knowledge on Teaching International History

  • Lord Rochester's Grand Tour 1661 - 1664

      Historian article
    The late Frank Ellis was working on a full biography of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, at the time of his death in 2007. He had contributed a life of Wilmot to the Oxford Dictionary of  National Biography which appeared in 2004. In it he wrote that ‘on 21 November...
    Lord Rochester's Grand Tour 1661 - 1664

  • Tudor Government

      Classic Pamphlet
    On 21 August 1485 Henry Tudor won the battle of Bosworth in Leicestershire and established himself as Henry VII, King of England. He had landed in Wales two weeks before, the Lancastrian claimant to the throne against the incumbent Yorkist, Richard III. He had received assistance from Charles VIII of...
    Tudor Government

  • The Urban Working Classes in England 1880-1914

      Historian article
    On reading the title of this article, any reader at all familiar with the social history of late Victorian and Edwardian England is likely to think of the revelations at the time of the extent of urban poverty. Two major enquiries, one into London poverty, and the other into poverty...
    The Urban Working Classes in England 1880-1914

  • The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site

      Historian article
    Catherine Lloyd introduces us to an international heritage initiative to celebrate ‘spa’ culture. From ancient times, people believed that gods and spirits brought the means of natural healing. Step back in time to imagine an eerie wilderness, a glade in a wood, or a pool by a river, where the snow...
    The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site

  • 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

  • Teaching History 139: Analysing History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial  03 HA Secondary News  04 From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7 analyse the changing relationship of Henry II and Becket - Tim Jenner (Read article) 11 Encountering diversity in the history of ideas: engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about ‘progress' - Jonathan White (Read article) 14 Cunning Plan: Teaching about...
    Teaching History 139: Analysing History

  • The Lady of the Black Horse: Mabel Stobart (1862–1954)

      Historian article
    Peter Down takes us on a winter retreat over snow-covered mountains. Mabel St Clair Stobart was born into a wealthy Victorian family and enjoyed an idyllic childhood. She was gifted academically and excelled at sport. Married at 22, she had two sons. Unfortunately in 1903 her husband lost his fortune and...
    The Lady of the Black Horse: Mabel Stobart (1862–1954)

  • Out and About: the central Marches of Wales and the Mortimer family of Wigmore

      Historian feature
    Paul Dryburgh and Philip Hume enable us to see the interaction of one prominent family with the area that they dominated. The central Marches span the English/Welsh border in an area that encompasses the picturesque landscapes and market towns of north-west Herefordshire, south-west Shropshire, and Radnorshire which has also the rugged...
    Out and About: the central Marches of Wales and the Mortimer family of Wigmore

  • Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on challenges that had surfaced in their own and others’ efforts to get pupils to write historical narratives, Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie went back to the drawing board to consider the disciplinary purposes of narrative. They used both historical scholarship and theoretical works by historians on narrative construction....
    Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative

  • Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee

      Historian feature
    This 'Real Lives' piece is based on a series of interviews Annette Ormanczyk carried out in 2019 with Mrs Irena Persak, who was deported as a five-year-old child with her family in February 1940. As well as offering a fascinating personal account of life in the Soviet Union during the Second...
    Real Lives: Surviving the War in the Soviet Union: recollections of a child deportee

  • 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

  • Edwardian England

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Edwardian era is still less than a lifetime away. Yet the memoirs of surviving Edwardians, written any time between the nineteen-twenties and the nineteen sixties, have often made it sound like a remote epoch. The years between the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and the outbreak of the...
    Edwardian England

  • Teaching History 137: Marking Time

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Jerome Freeman and Joanne Philpott - ‘Assessing Pupil Progress': transforming teacher assessment in Key Stage 3 history (Read article) 14 Jannet van Drie, Albert Logtenberg, Bas van der Meijden and Marcel van Riessen - "When was that date?" Building and assessing a frame of reference...
    Teaching History 137: Marking Time

  • Assessment without Level Descriptions

      Teaching History article
    Two heads of department in contrasting schools explain why they do not use Level Descriptions at all, other than at the very end of Key Stage 3. Influenced by ‘assessment for learning' principles, Sally Burnham and Geraint Brown develop a case for using assessment to help pupils grow in understanding...
    Assessment without Level Descriptions

  • The how of history: using old and new textbooks in the classroom to develop disciplinary knowledge

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What are textbooks for and how do we think of them? As inevitably partial views of the past that reflect their purpose and moment of construction and their authors' location in physical and ideological time...
    The how of history: using old and new textbooks in the classroom to develop disciplinary knowledge

  • Polychronicon 129: Reinterpreting Peterloo

      Teaching History feature
    The Peterloo massacre is one of the best-documented events in British history. It was the bloodiest political event of the 19th century on English soil. At St Peter's Fields in central Manchester on Monday 16 August 1819, a rally of around 60,000 people seeking parliamentary reform was violently dispersed by...
    Polychronicon 129: Reinterpreting Peterloo

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the long-term impact of the Black Death on English towns

      A Polychronicon of the Past
    In the summer of 1348, the Chronicle of the Grey Friars at Lynn described how sailors had arrived in Melcombe (now Weymouth) bringing from Gascony ‘the seeds of the terrible pestilence’. The Black Death spread rapidly throughout England, killing approximately half the population. While the cause of the disease, the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the long-term impact of the Black Death on English towns