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  • Narrative: the under-rated skill

      Teaching History article
    ‘Mere narrative’, ‘lapses into narrative’, ‘a narrative answer that fails to answer the question set’. These phrases flow in the blood of history teachers, from public examination criteria to regular classroom discourse. Whilst most of us use narrative in our teaching methods, we have demonised narrative in pupils’ written answers....
    Narrative: the under-rated skill

  • Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 04 HA Secondary News 06 Unnatural and essential: the nature of historical thinking – Sam Wineburg (Read article) 13 Nutshell 14 New alchemy or fatal attraction? History and citizenship – Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt (Read article) 20 Polychronicon: Peterloo – Robert Poole (Read article) 22 Interdisciplinary forays...
    Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds

  • Ideas for Assemblies: Battle of the Somme

      Article
    Commemorating the Battle of the Somme through an assembly is not an easy task and one which needs careful thought and preparation. This battle officially started on 1 July 1916, after a week-long artillery bombardment, though both British and French commanders had prepared for the offensive for several months. To highlight...
    Ideas for Assemblies: Battle of the Somme

  • Medical aspects of the battle of Waterloo

      Historian article
    Michael Crumplin explores the medical facilities of the British Army and asks how likely soldiers wounded at Waterloo were to survive. The road to Waterloo One of the very few benefits of conflict is the advancement of medical practice. The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistanhave been dealing with relatively...
    Medical aspects of the battle of Waterloo

  • The Historian 126: The Battle of Waterloo

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 The Battle of Waterloo: Sunday 18 June 1815 - John Morewood (Read Article) 13 News from 59a 14 Scum of the earth - or fine fellows? The British soldier in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars - Carole Divall (Read Article) 19 The President's Column 20 Medical...
    The Historian 126: The Battle of Waterloo

  • Out and About: Duke of Wellington statues

      Historian feature
    Dave Martin, recently the author of a book on the French Revolution, takes us on a journey to discover some of the memorials to the Duke of Wellington, and asks what they tell us about the great man. The Duke of Wellington is so clearly a national hero that it is no surprise...
    Out and About: Duke of Wellington statues

  • 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

  • Teaching History 123: Constructing History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    06 Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13 – Arthur Chapman (Read article) 14 Triumphs Show: 'Source Specs': making sources fun - Rachael Povey (Read article) 16 Little Jack Horner and polite revolutionaries: putting the story back into history – Alf Wilkinson (Read...
    Teaching History 123: Constructing History

  • 'Don't worry, Mr. Trimble. We can handle it' Balancing the rationale and the emotional in teaching of contentious topics

      Teaching History article
    A common line amongst teachers and policy-makers seeking to theorise a workable relationship between history and the new subject of citizenship is to say that there must be a link with the present. This is harder than it sounds. If the implication is that the study of the past should...
    'Don't worry, Mr. Trimble. We can handle it' Balancing the rationale and the emotional in teaching of contentious topics

  • 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 39

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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • More than skin deep: unmasking the history of cold cream

      Historian article
    From the ancient Mediterranean to the shelves of twenty-first century pharmacies and cosmetic counters, cold cream has a long history. In this article, Farhana Qayoom Shaikh explores how Galen’s simple formula for treating skin complaints transitioned over the centuries into a luxury beauty product.
    More than skin deep: unmasking the history of cold cream

  • Opinion: the populist politics of Joseph Chamberlain and Donald Trump

      Historian feature
    What are the pitfalls and pluses of comparing historical figures with contemporary politicians? Chris Godden argues that recent comparisons of Donald Trump with one of his predecessors may be wide of the mark, but that a more illuminating parallel may be found with one of Britain’s most controversial nineteenth-century politicians.
    Opinion: the populist politics of Joseph Chamberlain and Donald Trump

  • Real Lives: the long life of Old Tom Parr

      Historian feature
    In this article, Dexter Plato tells us about the real, or perhaps not so real, life of Old Tom Parr, who was supposedly born during the Wars of the Roses and died during a visit to the court of Charles I.
    Real Lives: the long life of Old Tom Parr