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Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts
Teaching History feature
The following plan provides a more detailed practical example of the approaches discussed in the article on using ancient texts.
Having puzzled over what ancient texts actually are - carefully constructed interpretations? testimonies? (but testimonies to what?) myths? - I wanted my Ancient History GCSE class to engage in this...
Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts
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Oliver Cromwell 1658-1958
Classic Pamphlet
Ever since the death of Oliver Cromwell 300 years ago his reputation has been the subject of controversy. The royalist view of him was expressed by Clarendon: "a brave bad mad," an ambitious hypocrite. This interpretation was supported by many former Parliamentarians: Edmund Ludlow regarded Cromwell as the lost leader...
Oliver Cromwell 1658-1958
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Beyond 'I speak, you listen boy!' Exploring diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening
Teaching History article
What is historical rigour in a speaking and listening activity? How do we make sure that a direct focus on improving the quality of pupils’ classroom talk is, at the same time, a focus upon strengthening historical knowledge, skill and understanding? For while it is possible to make a very...
Beyond 'I speak, you listen boy!' Exploring diversity of attitudes and experiences through speaking and listening
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Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3.
Teaching History article
It is easy enough to incorporate overview and depth studies into a scheme-of-work. Units are carved up into those topics that last for several weeks and those that are covered in one. Isn’t that enough to satisfy the requirements of the National Curriculum? Many teachers have gone much further than...
Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3.
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Keeping the kids on message...one school's attempt at helping sixth form students to engage in historical debating using ICT
Teaching History article
At post-16 level, keeping the ‘kids’ on message is critical. Teaching and learning must be focused on the relatively narrow goals of the examination syllabus, but set within broader historical and historiographical contexts. Students need to how know, and where, to fit their ideas into those of existing historians. Ideally...
Keeping the kids on message...one school's attempt at helping sixth form students to engage in historical debating using ICT
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Have we got the question right? Engaging future citizens in local history enquiry
Teaching History article
Gary Clemitshaw describes a five-lesson sequence integrating history, citizenship and ICT. He examines the varied rationales and problems underlying a citizenship-history link and then argues for the role of the local dimension in securing a connection that preserves the integrity of the discipline of history. He focuses upon causation as...
Have we got the question right? Engaging future citizens in local history enquiry
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Out and about in Trowbridge
Historian feature
This is more than one of our conventional ‘Out and About in Local History' items because Ken Rogers introduces us to a process whereby visual architectural and industrial history of Trowbridge has been saved from destruction; and then he gives us some clear guidance as to where to go and...
Out and about in Trowbridge
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Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites
Teaching History article
Working visits to historical sites for the purposes of developing pupils’ historical understanding can be extremely useful. As part of their training, student teachers need to acquire understanding and skills in the planning and management of worthwhile ‘fieldwork’. This work can be very powerful indeed if it emerges from co-operation...
Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites
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Illuminating the shadow: making progress happen in casual thinking through speaking and listening
Teaching History article
Here is another breath of fresh air from the Thomas Tallis history department. In TH 103, Head of Department Tony Hier showed how he developed a rigorous framework for implementing government initiatives and improving departmental professional discourse at the same time. This time, from history teacher Vaughan Clark, we get...
Illuminating the shadow: making progress happen in casual thinking through speaking and listening
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History 355
The Journal of the Historical Association
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How to be an Exchequer Clerk in the Twelfth Century: What the Dialogue of the Exchequer is Really About (pages 199-222) Ulla Kypta
Religion and the Composition of the Commissions of the Peace, 1547–1640 (pages 223-242) Alison...
History 355
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History 350
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles
Alexander of Telese's Encomium of Capua and the Formation of the Kingdom of Sicily (pages 183–200) Paul Oldfield
The Anglo-Scottish War of 1558 and the Scottish Reformation (pages 201–224)Amy Blakeway (Open Access)
African American Citizenship, the 1883 Civil Rights Casesand the Creation of the Jim Crow South (pages 225–241) Stephen...
History 350
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History 349
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles
1. Caring for Soldiers, Veterans and Families in Scotland, 1638–1651 (pages 5–23) Chris R. Langley
2. News Networks in Early Modern Wales (pp 24-44) Lloyd Bowen
3. The Parish Elite at Play? Cricket, Community and the ‘Middling Sort’ in Eighteenth-Century Kent (pages 45–67) Matthew Cragoe
4. ‘A Great Turkish Policy’: Winston...
History 349
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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
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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
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History 346
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles:
1. Introduction: Military and Political Violence in History and Theory (pages 337–361) Mark Hewitson
2. A (Conceptual) History of Violence (pages 362–378) Adriano Vinale
3. Political Violence, Violent Politics: Protestant Democrats and Republicans at War in Virginia, 1862 (pages 379–395) John H. Matsui
4. German Soldiers and the Horror...
History 346
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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
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Challenging stereotypes and avoiding the superficial: a suggested approach to teaching the Holocaust
Teaching History article
Alison Kitson provides a rationale for a scheme of work for Year 9 (13-14 year-olds). She argues that teachers should analyse the kind of historical learning that is taking place when the Holocaust is studied. Critical of the assumption that learning will take place as a result of exposure, she...
Challenging stereotypes and avoiding the superficial: a suggested approach to teaching the Holocaust
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History 344
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles
A New Power in the Late Fourteenth-Century Low Countries: Philip the Bold's Planned Franco-Burgundian Invasion of England and Scottish Alliance, 1385–1386 (pages 3–19) Laura Crombie
‘Wrightsonian Incorporation’ and the Public Rhetoric of Mid-Tudor England (pages 20–41) Richard Hoyle
Islam as Europe's ‘Other’ in the Long Term: Some Discontinuities (pages...
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History 343
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles:
1. A King of Jerusalem in England: The Visit of John of Brienne in 1223 (pages 627–639) Guy Perry
2. The Bishops and the Duke of Buckingham, 1624–1626 (pages 640–666) Mark Parry
3. History and the Making and Remaking of Wales (pages 667–684) Martin Johnes
4. Preparing for a...
History 343
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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...
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Case Study: Engaging history with National Trust tracker packs
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
White Horse Hill in Oxfordshire is home to the famous chalk White Horse, and it has been for the last 3000 years. The history surrounding this hill, high up on the Berkshire Downs, goes back...
Case Study: Engaging history with National Trust tracker packs
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Triumphs Show 123: Making sources fun
Teaching History feature
One of the biggest challenges which any history teacher faces is how to make sources fun! Source work does struggles in terms of pupil excitement, understanding and motivation when pitted against the roleplays, dramas and debates. As a history teacher, I am constantly looking for fresh and novel ways to...
Triumphs Show 123: Making sources fun
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History 339
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles
1. From Tyrant to Unfit Monarch: Marchamont Nedham's Representation of Charles Stuart and Royalists during the Interregnum (pages 1-20) - Benjamin Woodford
2. Images of Kingship: Charles I, Accession Sermons, and the Theory of Divine Right (pages 21-39) - Elena Kiryanova
3. ‘Citizen Emperor': Political Ritual, Popular Sovereignty and the...
History 339
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History 338
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles1. Drapery in Exile: Edward III, Colchester and the Flemings, 1351-1367 (pages 733-753) - Bart Lambert and Milan Pajic2. The Speed and Efficiency of the Tudor South-West's Royal Post-Stage Service (pages 754-774) - Ian Cooper3. Technologies of the Body: Polite Consumption and the Correction of Deformity in Eighteenth-Century England (pages...
History 338
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History 337
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles1. The Amherst Embassy and British Discoveries in China (pages 568-587) - Gao Hao2. Toasting Fox: The Fox Dinners in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1801-1825 (pages 588-606) - T. E. Orme3. Eighteenth-Century Jamaica's Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism (pages 607-631) - James Robertson4. Britain, Balkan Conflicts and the Evolving Conceptions of Militarism, 1875-1913 (pages...
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