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  • 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 Armada Campaign of 1588

      Classic Pamphlet
    Between 1585 and 1588 a state of undeclared war existed between England and Spain. During the course of those years, Philip II devised a plan for the 'Enterprise of England'. It was probably  the most ambitious military operation of the sixteenth century: a massive invasion to be mounted jointly by...
    The Armada Campaign of 1588

  • Scots Abroad in the Fifteenth Century

      Classic Pamphlet
    (Historical Association Pamphlet, No. 124, 1942) Dunlop's research into the occupations and attitudes of Scots abroad during the 15th century uncovers some surprising revelations about all members of the Scottish ex-pat society. She particularly notes the ‘scurrilous' opinions of the French regarding Scotsmen's behaviour. While Scottish diplomatists and envoys tended...
    Scots Abroad in the Fifteenth Century

  • Cunning Plan 100: teaching the First World War in Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    History teacher and head of department stand outside noisy Year 9 class. Bombs (paper ones) fly everywhere; in corner of room mutiny is being discussed ... many pupils are refusing to follow their leader's last minute orders - they will not be opting for history! The war of attrition (excessive...
    Cunning Plan 100: teaching the First World War in Year 9

  • How should we remember Rosa Parks?

      Primary History Article
    Rosa Parks died in October 2005, aged 92. It's a life story which resonates with any age group. In a recent visit to a nursery, I saw 4 year olds who had lined up the chairs to make a bus, playing out Rosa's refusal to move from her seat. She...
    How should we remember Rosa Parks?

  • The Historian 14

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution, Hugh Cunningham 10 Anniversary: 200 — Not Out! Bicentenary of Lord's Cricket Ground 12 Education Forum: History from 14 to 16, Martin Roberts 13 Local History: The Countryside: History and Pseudo-History, Oliver Rackham 19 Interpretation: How Wicked were Irish Landlords? David-Paterson 23 Personalia: Profile...
    The Historian 14

  • The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

      Article
    How did King Harold II die at the Battle of Hastings? The question is simple enough and the answer is apparently well known. Harold was killed by an arrow which struck him in the eye. His death is depicted clearly on the Bayeux Tapestry in one of its most famous...
    The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

  • The Historian 101: The snobbery of chronology

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front - Mark Mortimer (Read Article) President's Column - Anne Curry The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings - Chris Dennis (Read Article) Winston Churchill and the Islamic...
    The Historian 101: The snobbery of chronology

  • Louis XIV

      Classic Pamphlet
    Louis XIV was born on 5 September 1638 and became King on May 14 1643 at the age of four years and eight months on the death of his father Louis XIII. He attended the Conseil d'en haut from 1649 when he was eleven years old. He announced his coming...
    Louis XIV

  • Case Study: Prehistory in the primary curriculum: A stonehenge to remember

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. An article in the Sunday Times newspaper on 7 December reported that Britain is to stop making nominations to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) for heritage sites to be granted World Heritage...
    Case Study: Prehistory in the primary curriculum: A stonehenge to remember

  • Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Getting students to generate their own questions can seem like a formidable challenge, even for experienced teachers with extensive subject knowledge developed over years of teaching. Imagine how much more alarming it appeared to a student-teacher being encouraged to take risks by handing more responsibility to the students. Could it...
    Cunning Plan 144: promoting independent student enquiry

  • 'Picture This': A simple technique to teach complex concepts

      Teaching History article
    When Peter Clements was introduced to the creative strategy that he describes in this article, his immediate reaction was to dismiss it as childish and trivial. Yet, upon closer examination, he realised that ‘Picture This' offered far more than a lively way of increasing variety and engagement in his GCSE...
    'Picture This': A simple technique to teach complex concepts

  • Cunning Plan 112: Empire

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Empire’ is an historical concept with a rather imprecise range of meanings. Students need to be able to track their changing understanding of what an empire actually is. Into our workschemes for Years 7 to 13 we have therefore introduced a number of enquiry questions that simultaneously build knowledge about...
    Cunning Plan 112: Empire

  • Teaching History 24

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 The Contributors, page 3 `Public and Private Lives: Germany 1914 to 1939' - Diana Devlin, page 3 The Perils of Clio in France - Clive Church, page 7 Trends in History Teaching in France - L. 0. Ward, page 12 How to Evaluate a History Department -...
    Teaching History 24

  • The Historian 15

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Tudor Princes of Wales, P.R. Roberts 10 Update: Germany 1860-1918, V.R. Berghahn 13 Education Forum: History at 16 to 18, Eric Evans 14 Local History: Some Social History Premises, Norman McCord 18 Personalia: Past Presidents, W. Norton-Medlicott
    The Historian 15

  • The Historian 31

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Cultural Life in Latin America in the Age of the Enlightenment, John Fisher 10 Update: Spain and Portugal - From Dictatorship to Democracy, Richard Robinson 13 Portfolio: The Pageant of Monarchy: Royal Ceremonial in the Early Nineteenth Century, E.A. Smith 17 Local History: Can Our Record Offices Cope?...
    The Historian 31

  • 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

  • Alexander II

      Classic Pamphlet
    The ‘great reforms' of Tsar Alexander II (1855-81) are generally recognised as the most significant events in modern Russian history between the reign of Peter the Great and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The most important of Alexander's reforms, the emancipation of he serfs in 1861, has been described...
    Alexander II

  • The Historian 25

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Francesco Crispi and the Legacy of the Rsorgimento, Christopher Duggan 9 Update: Popular Protest in Britain c.1811-1850, John Rule 24 Education Forum: Computers in the Teaching and Learning of History, Aknic Dickinson 
    The Historian 25

  • 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

  • Whatever did the Greeks do for us?

      Primary History article
    The National Curriculum asks us to help our children to study ‘Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world’ [DfE 2013]. Lots of books explore the ancient Greeks [see, for example, Ancient Greece by Alf Wilkinson, Collins Primary Histories, published in 2019]. It is a familiar topic....
    Whatever did the Greeks do for us?

  • Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination

      Historian article
    Commonly hailed as a discovery or a ‘medical breakthrough', vaccination against smallpox with cowpox exudate was a development of variolation i.e. inoculation with live smallpox matter - a technique popularised amongst the gentry in the early eighteenth century by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who had observed the procedure in Turkey...
    Benjamin Jesty: Grandfather of Vaccination

  • Ancient Greeks: The Olympics' War Games - Teaching through Drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. When I was a boy the Greek Olympics was one of the perennials of the primary history curriculum, alongside the Battle of Hastings and the execution of Charles I. I have memories of an old text...
    Ancient Greeks: The Olympics' War Games - Teaching through Drama

  • Charles XII

      Classic Pamphlet
    The reputation of Charles XII who became king of Sweden before he was fifteen years old and had the responsibility of absolutist goverment thrust upon him within the next six months - contrary to the plans laid down for him by his father - has tended to attract political rather...
    Charles XII

  • Christopher Hill: Marxism and Methodism

      Historian article
    Christopher Hill, the eminent historian of seventeenth century England, was a convinced Marxist throughout most of his long and productive life (1912-2003). He embraced this secular world-view when he was a young History student at Oxford in the polemical 1930s and never lost his ideological commitment, even though he resigned...
    Christopher Hill: Marxism and Methodism