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  • Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery

      Historian article
    Michael Crumplin traces developments in surgery that can be directly attributed to changes in the conduct of war. Little doubt exists that war accelerates and innovates medical care. Today, our armed services can rely upon sound medical treatment if they are sick or wounded, with survival rates of above 90%. This...
    Losing sight of the glory: five centuries of combat surgery

  • Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade

  • Arnold Wilkins: Pioneer of British Radar

      Historian article
    Whenever British radar is discussed the name that usually comes to mind is that of Robert Watson Watt. Our history books and our dictionaries of biography consistently attribute the discovery of radar in Britain solely to Watson Watt, with little or no mention of the key role played by his...
    Arnold Wilkins: Pioneer of British Radar

  • The Advent of Decimalisation in Britain: 1971

      Historian article
    Decimal Day in Britain was Monday 15 February 1971. New coins and notes were circulated. There was no special issue postage stamp to commemorate the occasion, only a new series with some unfamiliar values, such as 7½p instead of 1s 6d. The fortieth anniversary of the arrival of decimal currency...
    The Advent of Decimalisation in Britain: 1971

  • Cunning Plan 174: creating a narrative of the interwar years

      Teaching History feature
    The major aim of this sequence of lessons was to teach Year 8 how to create and refine a narrative. I chose a period I was substantively confident on, which lent itself well to the narrative form, had a number of prominent academic narratives published about it and followed neatly...
    Cunning Plan 174: creating a narrative of the interwar years

  • Using diagrammatic representations of counterfactuals to develop causal reasoning

      Teaching History article
    Tom Bennett begins his article with a tale of a frustrating afternoon with Year 7. We’ve all been there. In his case, his frustration was caused by his finding a conceptual gap between how well his class wanted to do and the actual quality of their causal thinking. Bennett decided...
    Using diagrammatic representations of counterfactuals to develop causal reasoning

  • Food, history and a sense of place?

      Historian article
    It ought to be possible to match many of the letters of the alphabet to an English place-name and its particular food-stuff. From Bath Buns to Yorkshire Pudding, this puzzle might go, by way of cakes from Eccles and Pontefract. Can you think of other letters of the alphabet and...
    Food, history and a sense of place?

  • Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer

      Historian article
    Colin Wheldon James introduces us to a 19th-century Welsh composer who deserves far greater recognition for his achievements in Wales as well as in England and America.
    Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer

  • Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence

      Historian article
    Kate Ash-Irisarri shows how three redoubtable women had significant roles in the difficult and dangerous period of the Scottish Wars of Independence.
    Dangerous Women of the Scottish Wars of Independence

  • St Theobald of Provins and evidence of charcoal-burning

      Historian article
    Trevor James has been researching the ‘saintly landscape’ for over 40 years. Here is a glimpse of what he has identified.
    St Theobald of Provins and evidence of charcoal-burning

  • We will remember them: well, most of them

      Historian article
    Richard Broadhead provides a personal view on whether the mammoth task of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission can always be fulfilled, especially at a time of so many anniversaries.
    We will remember them: well, most of them

  • The German prisoner-of-war camp in Dorchester

      Historian article
    Dave Martin investigates why there is a war memorial for German soldiers, ‘buried in a foreign field’, in a Dorset churchyard.
    The German prisoner-of-war camp in Dorchester

  • A year in the life of a branch coordinator

      Historian article
    Jenni Hyde takes us through an exciting year with the Bolton Branch and provides some great ideas for other branch secretaries.
    A year in the life of a branch coordinator

  • The Historian 136: 1967 - A Year of Change

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Homosexuality in Britain since 1967 – Harry Cocks (Read article) 12 Reviews 13 The President’s Column 14 The origins and development of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights movement in Britain from 1960 to the present – Professor Sally R. Munt (Read...
    The Historian 136: 1967 - A Year of Change

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place

      Journal article
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll soon find something better: conversations in which other history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations any history...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place

  • Rotha Lintorn-Orman: the making of a fascist leader

      Historian article
    Stephen M. Cullen draws out the influences and events that shaped one of Britain’s most significant fascist organisers and leaders.
    Rotha Lintorn-Orman: the making of a fascist leader

  • A revolution in warfare: the creation of the RAF

      Historian article
    A revolution in warfare started 100 years ago in November 1917. Paula Kitching describes the changing role of air power during the First World War that led to the creation of the RAF.
    A revolution in warfare: the creation of the RAF

  • Out and About: on the trail of the Pentrich Rebellion

      Historian feature
    Richard Gaunt introduces us to a revolutionary incident in mid-Derbyshire whose 200th anniversary is commemorated this year.
    Out and About: on the trail of the Pentrich Rebellion

  • Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947

      Teaching History article
    Shortly before midnight on 14 August 1947 Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress (the main nationalist organisation in British India), rose in India’s Constituent Assembly in New Delhi to deliver his famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech that marked the end of 200 years of British rule in the...
    Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947

  • Polychronicon 167: The strange career of Richard Nixon

      Teaching History feature
    If you know just one thing about the career of the 37th President of the United States, it is likely to be this: Watergate. Nixon’s resignation in August 1974 was caused by his decision to cover up a burglary at the Democratic Party’s campaign headquarters for the 1972 election, which...
    Polychronicon 167: The strange career of Richard Nixon

  • The Lady of the Black Horse: Mabel Stobart (1862–1954)

      Historian article
    Peter Down takes us on a winter retreat over snow-covered mountains. Mabel St Clair Stobart was born into a wealthy Victorian family and enjoyed an idyllic childhood. She was gifted academically and excelled at sport. Married at 22, she had two sons. Unfortunately in 1903 her husband lost his fortune and...
    The Lady of the Black Horse: Mabel Stobart (1862–1954)

  • The Historian 132: The Lady of the Black Horse

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 The Flight to Varennes - Marisa Linton (Read article) 10 After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling plants, 1787- 1810 - Jordan Goodman (Read article) 15 The President’s Column 16 There and Back Again: Eleanor of Aquitaine’s journey to fetch Berengaria of Navarre -...
    The Historian 132: The Lady of the Black Horse

  • Admiral Lord Mountbatten: man of science and royal role model

      Historian article
    Mountbatten was a controversial figure who died in tragic circumstances but Adrian Smith demonstrates that, behind his aristocratic facade, he was a very adept, talented and formative personality. Four years have passed since the re-opening of Broadlands, the Hampshire home of Lord and Lady Brabourne. The house was subject to...
    Admiral Lord Mountbatten: man of science and royal role model

  • The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge Disaster of 1845

      Historian article
    Many communities have cataclysmic disasters which tend to dominate or define their local history. Gareth Davies reveals that the sudden collapse of the Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge is a telling example of this trend. Beside the waters of the River Bure in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk stands a shiny black memorial...
    The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge Disaster of 1845

  • Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    A quarter-century on from 1989-91, with a large amount of archive and media material available, these epic years are ripe for historical analysis. Yet their proximity to our time also throws up challenging questions about the practice of ‘contemporary history’, and the complexity of events raises larger issues about how...
    Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War