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  • Brazil and the two World Wars

      Article
    Brazil and the outbreak of the First World War At the beginning of the twentieth century Brazil was on the periphery of a world order that revolved around decisions made by the great European powers. Although it was the largest and most populated nation in South America, Brazil possessed an...
    Brazil and the two World Wars

  • Mussolini's marriage and a game in the playground: using analogy to help pupils understand the past

      Teaching History article
    Diana Laffin and Maggie Wilson want their pupils to connect with people in the past and to experience some of their emotions. The emotional factor is a difficult one in history, both for pupils and professional historians. When studying Eden’s actions at Suez, for example, what we lack is a...
    Mussolini's marriage and a game in the playground: using analogy to help pupils understand the past

  • Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    History is the study of the past; some of the past is more recent than a glance over many schemes of work might lead us to think. Chris Culpin makes the case for ignoring the 20 year rule and tackling head on – and, crucially, historically – the big issues...
    Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

  • Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined...
    Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

  • Personality & Power: The individual's role in the history of twentieth-century Europe

      Article
    What role do individuals wielding great power play in determining significant historical change? And how do historians locate human agency in historical change, and explain it? These are the issues I would like to reflect a little upon here. They are not new problems. But they are inescapable ones for...
    Personality & Power: The individual's role in the history of twentieth-century Europe

  • Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work

      Scheme of Work
    2015 was a year of anniversaries. As part of our funded commemoration projects surrounding the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, we have commissioned this scheme of work looking at interpretations of the battle and period, particularly aimed at pupils in Key Stage Three. It comes with a complete...
    Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work

  • The Great Exhibition

      Article
    ‘Of all the decades to be young in, a wise man would choose the 1850s’ concludes G.M. Young in his Portrait of An Age. His choice is understandable. Historians and contemporaries have long viewed the middle years of the century as a ‘plateau of peace and prosperity’, an ‘age of...
    The Great Exhibition

  • The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Much has been said and written about different learning styles in recent years. Some people have responded with evangelical enthusiasm, others exercise a more cautious approach, whilst a few disregard it completely. Certainly, there are...
    The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles

  • The 'Era of the Dictators' Reconsidered

      Article
    Kenneth Thomson reflects on major aspects of the ‘era of the dictators’ after the collapse of Soviet Communism and its satellite regimes. In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, almost the whole of continental Europe was ruled by dictatorships of various political hues. Even countries, like France,...
    The 'Era of the Dictators' Reconsidered

  • The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Contributors to this journal have long recognised that success in public examinations is at least partly achieved by carefully teaching in Key Stage 3. A critical component of A-Level is that students who wish to...
    The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

  • VE Day 75: free home learning resource

      5th May 2020
    Lots of organisations in the UK had exciting plans to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day but unfortunately many of them will not now go ahead because of the Covid-19 situation. However, that doesn’t mean that young people can’t begin to understand why the first May bank holiday has...
    VE Day 75: free home learning resource

  • Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons

      New resource for teachers of GCSE history from Warwick University's Centre for the History of Medicine
    Past Time Toolkit: A Learning Resource about Victorian Prisons is aimed at teachers of GCSE History students and is also of interest to anyone exploring the Victorians, prison history, isolation, or food history.  The resource is particularly useful to those working with the Edexel GCSE History course’s Crime and Punishment...
    Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons

  • Podcast: The Life and Significance of Alan Turing

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester discusses the life and significance of Alan Turing. Please note this is only the first section of the full podcast which is available to HA Members Alan Mathison Turing, (23 June 1912–7 June 1954) was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician,...
    Podcast: The Life and Significance of Alan Turing

  • Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism

      Podcast
    In this podcast, Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester, looks at the historical medicalization of homosexuality and transvestism.  1. Introduction: the historical medicalization of homosexuality and transvestism  HA Members can listen to the full podcast here Suggested Reading:  Tommy Dickinson (2015) "Curing Queers": MentalNurses and their Patients  1935-1974.  Peter Conrad &...
    Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism

  • Seeing, hearing and doing the renaissance (Part 2)

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In the last edition of Teaching History, Maria Osowiecki described in detail the fourth lesson in a five-lesson enquiry entitled: What was remarkable about the Renaissance? She also shared her resources for two lively, interactive...
    Seeing, hearing and doing the renaissance (Part 2)

  • The Insanity of Henry VI

      Article
    Carole Rawcliffe examines medieval attitudes to madness and the case of Henry VI. Mad kings are all the rage at present. The remarkable success, first of Alan Bennett’s stage play, The Madness of George III, and then of the widely acclaimed film version, has prompted a spate of newspaper articles...
    The Insanity of Henry VI

  • Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8

      Article
    Ian Gibson and Susan McLelland describe their work using cause boxes. They identity the type of historical learning that they felt was taking place and the range of factors which they judged to be critical in making it happen. Work with the cause boxes was carefully positioned within a sequence...
    Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8

  • 'If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive Him'

      Teaching History article
    During discussions about planning, Tim Kemp and Charlotte Bickmore recently concluded that despite the name they give to their major Year 8 unit (The Making of the United Kingdom), they tend mainly to focus on England, and even more especially, on London. They have a good point. Ask an average...
    'If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive Him'

  • Queenship in Medieval England: A Changing Dynamic?

      Historian article
    In the winter of 1235-6, Eleanor, the 12 year old daughter of Count Raymond-Berengar V of Provence and Beatrice of Savoy, left her native homeland. She travelled to England to marry King Henry III, a man 28 years her senior whom she had never met. The bride and her entourage...
    Queenship in Medieval England: A Changing Dynamic?

  • The Historian 119: Women in History

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 Queenship in Medieval England: A Changing Dynamic? - Louise Wilkinson (Read article) 12 Petticoat Politicians: Women and the Politics of the Parish in England - Sarah Richardson (Read article) 17 The President's Column 18 Strange Journey: the life of Dorothy Eckersley - Stephen M. Cullen (Read Article)...
    The Historian 119: Women in History

  • 'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?

      Teaching History article
    This was an opportunity all good historians dream about. A large box crammed with artefacts about a soldier who fought in the First World War, just begging to be read, studied, sorted and organised. Being faced with such a wealth of uncatalogued primary evidence could have proved daunting enough without...
    'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?

  • JFK: the medium, the message and the myth

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham and Russell Hall present a multi-faceted rationale for an in-depth study of the 1991 film, JFK. They treat it as an ‘interpretation’ in the National Curriculum sense, constructing a varied and meticulous learning journey towards its analysis. By the end of that journey pupils had examined the central...
    JFK: the medium, the message and the myth

  • 'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Helena Stride shows how the Imperial War Museum responded to criticism that insufficient attention had been paid to the contribution of black and Asian people to Britain’s wars. She focuses on one of two resource-packs produced by the Museum, which highlights the experience of Britain’s colonial peoples,...
    'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War

  • Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

      Teaching History article
    In this article Nicolas Kinloch examines aspects of an indigenous empire: that of Aztec Mexico. He attempts to persuade a group of mixed-ability Year 8 students to examine - and question - some of the assumptions they bring to the study of this empire. Their attitudes reflect quite widespread beliefs...
    Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

  • Transforming Year 7's understanding of the concept of Imperialism: a case study on the Roman Empire

      Teaching History article
    Those of us in the U.K. know that many of our pupils finish their entire historical education without a satisfactory grasp of basic substantive concepts as they are used in history. Do all our low-attaining or ‘low ability’ 14-year-olds who are pressured to drop history at 14 really emerge with...
    Transforming Year 7's understanding of the concept of Imperialism: a case study on the Roman Empire