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  • 1851 by Asa Briggs

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet is being re-published in digital form to coincide with the special edition of The Historian devoted to the memory of Asa Briggs. He was one of the most illustrious members of the Historical Association and a devotedly loyal member all his life. One Historian has said that...
    1851 by Asa Briggs

  • Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

      Historian article
    Sarah Davies explores the evidence that even in the most repressive phases of Stalin’s rule, there existed a flourishing ‘shadow culture’, a lively and efficient unofficial network of information and ideas. 'Today a man only talks freely with his wife — at night, with the blankets pulled over his head.’...
    Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

  • History 348

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles Magna Carta in its European Context (pages 659–670) Susan Reynolds The Mediterranean Metaphor in Early Geopolitical Writings (pages 671–691) Rolf Petri Waging War for the Righteous: William Eaton on Enlightenment, Empire, and Coup d'état in the First Barbary War, 1801–1805 (pages 692–709) C. B. Bow The Rhinoceros and the...
    History 348

  • The Great Charter

      Classic Pamphlet
    The following introduction to and translation of Magna Carta was made for the use of my pupils and is here published in response to a suggestion that it may be of use to others. The Charter bristles with technical legal terms and its Latin is often ambiguous since the language...
    The Great Charter

  • Uncovering the hidden histories: black and Asian people in the two world wars

      Teaching History Article
    The stories we tell in history are often stories about ourselves. This can lead to tremendous distortion. Rupert Gaze was shocked when a young black student told him that there was no point in his studying the Second World War because it had nothing to do with him or his...
    Uncovering the hidden histories: black and Asian people in the two world wars

  • History 347

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles: 1. The Earliest Norman Sheriffs (pages 485–494) by Richard Sharpe (Open Access) 2. Scottish Political Economy, Education and the Management of Poverty in Industrializing Britain: Patrick Colquhoun and the Westminster Free School Model (pages 495–512) by Paul Tonks 3. Depraved, Deprived, Dangerous and Deviant: Depicting the Insane Child in...
    History 347

  • History 342

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles: 1. Introduction (pages 507–516) Alexandra Walsham 2. The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967) (pages 517–534) Peter Lake 3. Archbishop Grindal 1519–1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church (1979) (pages 535–543) Kenneth Fincham 4. The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559-1625 (1982) (pages 544–558) Alexandra Walsham 5. The...
    History 342

  • Innovation, inspiration and diversification: new approaches to history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Good history teaching should not be the responsibility of a single department working in isolation. The history subject community as a whole should work together to ensure that history teaching is of as high a quality as possible. This does not mean that every department, and every teacher, should do...
    Innovation, inspiration and diversification: new approaches to history at Key Stage 3

  • Jane Austen: a writer for all seasons

      Article
    Irene Collins provides a fresh assessment of the life and work of one of this country’s greatest novelists, whose own wit and charm, combined with a deep insight into human nature, is reflected in her novels. Jane Austen was not the first woman novelist in England to achieve popularity and...
    Jane Austen: a writer for all seasons

  • William Vernon Harcourt

      Article
    2004 marks the centenary of the death of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, on 30 September 1904, and this provides an opportunity to consider the extent to which Harcourt's beliefs and political attitudes are still relevant today. Although he is now almost forgotten Harcourt was regarded as a major figure in...
    William Vernon Harcourt

  • Brazil and the two World Wars

      Article
    Brazil and the outbreak of the First World War At the beginning of the twentieth century Brazil was on the periphery of a world order that revolved around decisions made by the great European powers. Although it was the largest and most populated nation in South America, Brazil possessed an...
    Brazil and the two World Wars

  • Teaching History 80

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 Re-Thinking Collingwood: a reply to Keith Jenkins's Re-thinking History Mamie T.E. Hughes 9 Secondary History Teaching and the OFSTED Inspections: an analysis and discussion of history comments Paul Bowen 14 The Re-appearance of a Cheshire Cat - teaching the history of Britain at key stage...
    Teaching History 80

  • ‘You hear about it for real in school.’ Avoiding, containing and risk-taking in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Alison Kitson and Alan McCully discuss the findings of their research into history teaching in the most divided part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers, they consider what history teaching might contribute to an understanding of the current situation and...
    ‘You hear about it for real in school.’ Avoiding, containing and risk-taking in the classroom

  • Means and Ends: History, Drama and Education for Life

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. John Fines, Raymond Verrier and I frequently taught as a team trying to discover where drama work and history meet. We were interested in helping children get a grasp of past events which have influenced their...
    Means and Ends: History, Drama and Education for Life

  • A need to know: Islamic history and the school curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Nicolas Kinloch questions some of the principal justifications often advanced for teaching Islamic history in schools. In particular, he wants to move us beyond our concern with current events in the Middle East. He suggests that there are dangers in looking at Islamic history if it is...
    A need to know: Islamic history and the school curriculum

  • Mussolini's marriage and a game in the playground: using analogy to help pupils understand the past

      Teaching History article
    Diana Laffin and Maggie Wilson want their pupils to connect with people in the past and to experience some of their emotions. The emotional factor is a difficult one in history, both for pupils and professional historians. When studying Eden’s actions at Suez, for example, what we lack is a...
    Mussolini's marriage and a game in the playground: using analogy to help pupils understand the past

  • The Historian 96: What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy?

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy? The soldier in later medieval England - Adrian R Bell, Adam Chapman, Anne Curry, Andy King and David Simpkin (Read Article) Upwards till Lepanto: The Ottoman Turks in early modern Europe - Sarah Newman The Death of Lord Londonderry - Robert...
    The Historian 96: What did you do in the Hundred Years War, Daddy?

  • Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    History is the study of the past; some of the past is more recent than a glance over many schemes of work might lead us to think. Chris Culpin makes the case for ignoring the 20 year rule and tackling head on – and, crucially, historically – the big issues...
    Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

  • Teaching History 79

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 The Revised History Order Sue Bennett and Ian Steele 9 From Plowden to Dearing Patrick Wood 11 Developing an Understanding of Time Sydney Wood 15 The Development Of Temporal Concepts in Children and its Significance for History Teaching in the Senior Primary School Cheryl-Ann Simchowitz...
    Teaching History 79

  • Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined...
    Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

  • The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs

      Article
    There should be no hesitancy doubting his existence R. G. Collingwood is remembered today as a philosopher, a man with a wide range of interests, the core of whose work is in the Idealist tradition. He died in 1943 and although his work has subsequently not been widely celebrated the...
    The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs

  • Personality & Power: The individual's role in the history of twentieth-century Europe

      Article
    What role do individuals wielding great power play in determining significant historical change? And how do historians locate human agency in historical change, and explain it? These are the issues I would like to reflect a little upon here. They are not new problems. But they are inescapable ones for...
    Personality & Power: The individual's role in the history of twentieth-century Europe

  • Western Dress and Ambivalence in the South Pacific

      Article
    Michael Sturma examines an aspect of the cultural impact of the West in the South Pacific. ‘States of undress, or the partially clad body, invite particularly ambivalent responses.’ One of the main preoccupation’s of early European visitors to the South Pacific was the nudity or partial nudity of the indigenous...
    Western Dress and Ambivalence in the South Pacific

  • History 345

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles: 1. The Fate of Anglo-Saxon Saints after the Norman Conquest of England: St Æthelwold of Winchester as a Case Study (pages 183–200) Rebecca Browett 2. Henry VIII: ‘Catholicism without the Pope?’ (pages 201–221) G. W. Bernard 3. ‘We should dress us fairly for our end’: The Significance of the...
    History 345

  • Painted Advertisements on Houses

      Article
    A.D. Harvey discusses a once-familiar feature of the inner city landscape. A generation ago one often saw advertisements, or the names of commercial enterprises, painted directly on to the brickwork of old buildings. With the destruction, or renovation, of the older sections of most British towns, these advertisements are now...
    Painted Advertisements on Houses