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  • Teaching History 39

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 A Small Local Investigation - David Wright, page 3 A Journey Back into the Past - Rebecca Bell, page 5 History Workshop Centre (Report), page 7 History of Education in Schools - Richard Aldrich, page 8 Christmas Holiday Lecture Quiz Prizewinner, page 11 Recreating a Trip to...
    Teaching History 39

  • Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament

      Historian article
    In February this year the four surviving originals of Magna Carta were briefly brought together in the Houses of Parliament. John Maddicott, examining the Charter's role in the early development of Parliament, shows that the setting was well chosen. What did Magna Carta contribute to the origins of parliament? If...
    Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament

  • The War of American Independence

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the two-hundredth year of American Independence, it is proper to ask: why did it occur? It need not have happened; it was the act of men, not immutable forces. But once the tensions became acute, the three thousand miles of ocean were a difficult chasm to bridge. The War...
    The War of American Independence

  • 1066: The Limits of our Knowledge

      Historian article
    As the most pivotal and traumatic event in English history, the Norman Conquest continues to generate controversy and debate, especially among those who know little about it or enjoy passing judgement on the past. Who had the better claim to the English throne, William the Conqueror or Harold Godwineson? Was...
    1066: The Limits of our Knowledge

  • Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    05’Why can’t they just live together happily, Miss?’ Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE – Alison Stephen (Read article) 11 Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE – Chris Culpin (Read article) 15 Cunning Plan: Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after...
    Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions

  • The Lords of Renaissance Italy

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Lords of Renaissance Italy: the signori, 1250-1500 Among the many city states into which Italy was divided in the late medieval and early modern period, the republics of Florence and Venice are comparatively well known. Republicanism was not, however, the most common form of government. This pamphlet deals with states...
    The Lords of Renaissance Italy

  • The Story of the African Queen

      Historian article
    Where fact and fiction intercept: the story of The African Queen(s) by C.S. Forester When the Königin Luise was hull down over the horizon and the dhow was close in-shore the lieutenant left his post and went down to the jetty to meet his senior officer. The dhow ran briskly in,...
    The Story of the African Queen

  • The Great Revolt of 1381

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Great Revolt of 1381 began in South-West Essex sometime between late May and 2 June: contemporary narratives and record sources differ irreconcilably about the dates. It all started with the arrival of a royal tax commissioner, John Bampton, at Brentwood inBarnstable Hundred. He came to inquire into the evasion...
    The Great Revolt of 1381

  • Making sense of the eighteenth century

      Teaching History article
    Making sense of the eighteenth century Pressures on curriculum time force us all to make difficult choices about curriculum content, but the eighteenth century seems to have suffered particular neglect. Inspired by the tercentenary of the accession of the first Georgian king and the interest in the Acts of Union prompted...
    Making sense of the eighteenth century

  • Teaching History 154: A Sense of History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Dan Smith - Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period (Read article) 18 Katharine Burn - Making sense of the eighteenth century (Read article) 28 Cunning Plan: Layers of history (Read article) 30 Paula...
    Teaching History 154: A Sense of History

  • Regional Aspects of the Scottish Reformation

      Classic Pamphlet
    Reformation Perspective In recent years studies of the Scottish Reformation have undergone a marked change. Religion is seldom advanced as the sole mainspring of the events of 1560 and explanations have been increasingly sought in political and economic terms. On the political side growing opposition to French influence within Scotland...
    Regional Aspects of the Scottish Reformation

  • The Evidence of the Casket Letters

      Classic Pamphlet
    It has been well said that the last word will never be written on the tragedy of Mary Stuart, for her fate presents problems which invite solution from the historians of successive generations, and yet can never be wholly solved, If the charge brought against the Queen of complicity in...
    The Evidence of the Casket Letters

  • The Origins of the First World War

      Classic Pamphlet
    The First World War broke out suddenly and unexpectedly in midsummer 1914, following the murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Hapsburg, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, at Sarajevo, in Bosnia, on 28 June. Since no war involving the European great powers had occurred since 1871, the possibility of...
    The Origins of the First World War

  • Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with creating progress: History teachers are creating progress - the idea and the reality. Why rely on others to define and design it? The creation process is every teacher's property and there is no celing on what we might help pupils achieve. JFK, Progression models, Roleplay in...
    Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

  • The French Wars of Religion

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through the French reformation, the first, second and third war of religion, The St Bartholomew's Day massacre and the Fourth War, the later wars, the Catholic League, Henry IV, the nobility, the towns, confessional violence, social contexts and warfare and its costs.
    The French Wars of Religion

  • Polychronicon 151: Interpreting the Revolution of 1688

      Teaching History feature
    John Morrill, one of the foremost historians of the British civil wars, has described the events of 1688-9 as the ‘Sensible Revolution'. The phrase captures the essence of a long-standing scholarly consensus, that this was a very unrevolutionary revolution. The origins of this interpretation go back to the late eighteenth...
    Polychronicon 151: Interpreting the Revolution of 1688

  • Update: New approaches to the study of ancient history

      Historian feature
    This regular ‘update’ feature in The Historian looks at the latest developments in the study of various aspects of history. Here Steve Illingworth considers how scholars of ancient worlds have broadened their geographical approach in recent years, so that there is now greater diversity and less Euro-centricity in the subject matter being explored. The...
    Update: New approaches to the study of ancient history

  • ‘The Nazi Service’? The Prussian origins of the Luftwaffe

      Historian article
    The Luftwaffe had been a real achievement of Prussian military culture, but under poor Nazi leadership it degenerated into an ineffective fighting force, writes Stephen Graham.
    ‘The Nazi Service’? The Prussian origins of the Luftwaffe

  • Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by Jeanne Theoharis’s biography of Rosa Parks, Ed Durbin initially planned to challenge the ‘fable’ that had been constructed around her life. He soon realised, however, that he wanted to take the opportunity to get ‘behind’ the fable and help his students understand how and why it had been constructed. Drawing...
    Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9

  • My Favourite History Place: The Great House of Mercers Creek

      Historian feature
    The tropical island of Antigua is a tourist heaven, but Gabriella Howell’s research into her family property, the Great House of Mercers Creek, shows how over the centuries, a varied history has shaped the experience of visitors and residents alike. From the enslaved and missionaries to admirals and film stars,...
    My Favourite History Place: The Great House of Mercers Creek

  • Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people

      Teaching History article
    What preconceptions do your pupils hold about the Second World War and about German people? How far have these been influenced by home background, by personal experience, by film, by sport, by the Key Stage 2 history curriculum? Paul Coman argues that the last of these deserves greater attention, at...
    Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people

  • Environmental history and the challenges of the present

      Historian article
    In a wide-ranging survey of the field, Amanda Power explains what it means to do environmental history at a time of climate crisis, and points to the opportunities and challenges in this thriving area of research...
    Environmental history and the challenges of the present

  • Father of the Free French Navy: Thierry d’Argenlieu

      Historian article
    Thierry d’Argenlieu played a crucial role in the French Resistance during World War Two, but he does not fit the mould of the typical resister. Adrian Smith brings to light d’Argenlieu’s wartime experiences, and follows his career after 1945 as High Commissioner in Indo-China and member of the Carmelite order...
    Father of the Free French Navy: Thierry d’Argenlieu

  • Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?

      Historian article
    In this new, occasional section of The Historian, contributors share their thoughts on matters of public historical debate. We invite our readers to respond, either by writing to the editors at thehistorian@history.org.uk or by writing their own opinion piece. Here, Lorenzo Kamel shares his thoughts on why saying ‘he was a...
    Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?

  • My Favourite History Place: A Short History of Brill

      Historian feature
    In this article Josephine Glover discusses the long history of her ‘favourite history place’, the Buckinghamshire village of Brill. She explains how there has been a human settlement there since Mesolithic times. Using various fragments of evidence, she pieces together the extent to which the village was important to early...
    My Favourite History Place: A Short History of Brill