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  • Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2018
    The 2018 Teacher Fellowship Programme was the first to include a dedicated strand for primary teaching, led by Karin Doull. It looked at developing teaching of the Age of Revolutions (1755-1848) and was fully funded by the Age of Revolution education legacy project. It focused on improving the teaching of...
    Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949

      Diaries and Personal Experiences
    In this talk Professor Henrietta Harrison uses diary records to think about the experience of living through the revolution in China in 1949, focussing on what it meant to Chinese people, how they learned about its practices and ideology, and how this changed their lives - whether they were radical intellectuals returning...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949

  • Recorded Webinar: Robespierre and Danton: Heroes of the French Revolution?

      Article
    One of the oldest myths of the French Revolution is the lethal rivalry between Robespierre and Danton: Robespierre the cold, bloodthirsty dictator who ruled France through Terror, versus Danton, the warm, humane, inspirational orator who wanted to stop Terror. Throughout the 19th century Robespierre was mostly depicted as a villain,...
    Recorded Webinar: Robespierre and Danton: Heroes of the French Revolution?

  • Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010

      New HA film series | Starting this autumn
    From royal courts to radical protests, from industrial revolutions to global empires – this compelling new film series traces the dramatic evolution of power, rights, and freedom across three centuries of British and Irish history. We will trace Britain and Ireland’s transformation from 1714 to 2010, unpacking power struggles, social revolutions, and...
    Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010

  • Virtual Branch recording: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom

      The Black Crown
    How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon's invading troops and become king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the forgotten, remarkable story of Henry Christophe. Christophe fought as a child soldier in the American War of Independence, before serving in...
    Virtual Branch recording: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom

  • Filmed Lecture: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

      A Fistful of Shells
    In this Virtual Branch webinar we were joined in conversation with Dr Toby Green on his acclaimed book 'A Fistful of Shells'. Shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson Prize and winner of the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the book explores West Africa from the Rise of the...
    Filmed Lecture: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

      Article
    This talk explored the struggle for liberation from the perspective of the enslaved, wherever possible in their own words. Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh shines a light on the lives of revolutionaries like Toussaint Louverture, José Antonio Aponte, Nat Turner, and the pregnant rebel Solitude; touching on the stories of the freed...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

  • Recorded webinar: Britain's eighteenth-century tradition of popular riot and protest

      Article
    Eighteenth-century Britons were ruled by a restricted oligarchy of landowners and plutocrats. Yet the wider population had a proud tradition of assertiveness and readiness to protest. ‘Britons never will be slaves!’ as the chorus of 'Rule Britannia' (1740) announced pointedly (if somewhat ironically, in view of Britain’s role in the...
    Recorded webinar: Britain's eighteenth-century tradition of popular riot and protest

  • Film: Brezhnev's early life and career

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film Dr Edwin Bacon takes us through Brezhnev’s early life and career: his birth in Ukraine in 1906, the opportunities brought by the revolution, his role in the battle of Ukraine and his eventual arrival to the Politburo at the end of the 1950s. Dr Bacon looks at...
    Film: Brezhnev's early life and career

  • Recorded Webinar: Understanding Lenin’s Government, 1917-24

      Article
    In this webinar Dr Douds examines the nature of political authority in the nascent Soviet Republic and the institutional structures, practices and ideology of government in the Lenin period. She considers how Communist Party dictatorship and the monolithic party-state emerged in the early years following the October Revolution of 1917...
    Recorded Webinar: Understanding Lenin’s Government, 1917-24

  • The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

  • Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

  • Recorded webinar: Helping primary students understand climate change

      Article
    How might we integrate a focus on our relationship with the natural world through time in our existing curriculum? Why should we teach about key turning points in human history that have shaped this relationship in profound ways? What is history's role in explaining how we got to this point? ...
    Recorded webinar: Helping primary students understand climate change

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta

      Article
    This month at the Virtual Branch, renowned medieval historian David Carpenter will delve into the enduring legacy of Magna Carta. Drawing on his recent work uncovering and authenticating a Magna Carta document in the United States, Carpenter will explore why both the dating and the content of this foundational charter...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Henry III and Simon de Montfort

      Article
    David Carpenter brings to life the dramatic events in the last phase of Henry III’s momentous reign, provides a fresh account of the king’s strenuous efforts to recover power and sheds new light on the rebel figure Simon de Montfort. Professor David Carpenter is a Professor of Medieval History at King's College...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Henry III and Simon de Montfort

  • Recorded webinar: Devising and using rigorous historical enquiry questions to lead learning in primary history

      Webinar series: History and literacy: better together
    This webinar will guide teachers on how to devise rigorous historical enquiry questions, how to spot and weed out weak ones, and how to sequence them in an effective way across medium-term plans. It will show how disciplinary concepts can be revisited and pupils supported in the careful accumulation of...
    Recorded webinar: Devising and using rigorous historical enquiry questions to lead learning in primary history

  • Recorded webinar: Exploring representations and attitudes to disability across history

      Webinar
    This webinar was presented by Richard Rieser, who is a campaigner and champion for disability rights and the coordinator of UK Disability History Month. His presentation is part of our ongoing work to explore disability history and the arguments and representations of it and ensure that people from disability groups...
    Recorded webinar: Exploring representations and attitudes to disability across history

  • Films: Mikhail Gorbachev – Interpretations

      Film series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    How much of what Russia is today, how its people behave, and how they are perceived is dependent on its history and those that have led it? Was it the first melting pot of the world? Do its broad range of cultural traditions and diversity play a part in its...
    Films: Mikhail Gorbachev – Interpretations

  • Film: The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania (1772-1795)

      Repercussions for German-Polish Relations and their Legacy.
    Karin Friedrich recently joined the Virtual Branch to discuss aspects of its complex history in her talk on the partitions of Poland, their repercussions for German-Polish relations and their legacy. Professor Friedrich is chair in Early Modern European History at the University of Aberdeen, co-director of the Centre for Early Modern...
    Film: The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania (1772-1795)

  • Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

      HA Webinar
    This year's Holocaust Memorial Day the theme is 'One Day'. In this webinar with historian Paula Kitching, we will use the one day Wannsee Conference of January 1942 to help explore the actions of the perpetrators, the Holocaust victims and how decision making by people can lead to genocide. This...
    Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations

      Article
    The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around the world? ...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations

  • Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

      Article
    Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War.  Their experiences are little remembered today, neither in the West where a Euro/US-centric memory of the war dominates, nor in South Asia, which privileges nationalist histories of independence from the British Empire. What was it like...
    Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

  • Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the primary history classroom

      Webinar
    In the last 12 months many pupils have missed significant chunks of school and importantly a significant chunk of their history learning. In this special one-off webinar we discuss some of the issues we are all facing. What does catch up in history look like? How helpful is this terminology?...
    Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the primary history classroom

  • Film: What a strange place to be buried

      Virtual Branch Film
    Anna Cusack joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss unique burial locations in London c.1600-1800. Anna recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the marginal dead of seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, focusing specifically on suicides, executed criminals, Quakers, and Jews and the treatment of their bodily remains...
    Film: What a strange place to be buried

  • Beyond Multiple Choice: Questions and Answers, Pedagogy and Technology in the History classroom

      E-CPD
    *This unit was produced a number of years ago and whilst still relevant from the pedagogy side of things many of the ICT aspects are outdated. Interactivity: A Grail-like QuestIn recent years the buzzword in many sectors, whether it be business, communications, entertainment or education, has been interactivity. One of...
    Beyond Multiple Choice: Questions and Answers, Pedagogy and Technology in the History classroom