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  • Russian Revolution: Social Movements between the Revolutions Feb-Oct 1917

      Lecture
    On the 29th November Dr Jane McDermid gave the second of her lectures on the Russian Revolution, at the Weston Theatre, Manchester. John Laver, Principal Examiner in History at AQA also gave some invaluable advice on how to answer A Level History Exam questions. Click the links below to access their lecture notes>>>...
    Russian Revolution: Social Movements between the Revolutions Feb-Oct 1917

  • The Reformed Electoral System in Great Britain, 1832-1914

      Classic Pamphlet
    The struggle for parliamentary reform between 1830 and 1832 has long been regarded as one of the decisive battles of British political history. The Tories lamented that the passage of the Reform Bill meant the destruction of the constitution. Middle class Radicals welcomed the Reform Bill as the instrument that...
    The Reformed Electoral System in Great Britain, 1832-1914

  • Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

      Teaching History feature
    It nearly began like this: ‘On Christmas Eve 1968, two episcopalians and a Roman Catholic were in orbit around the Moon.' I was writing a book called Earthrise, about the first views of Earth from space. Most other books about the Apollo programme of the 1960s and 1970s took an...
    Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

  • 50th Anniversary of 'Carve her name with pride'

      Article
    The classic British war film Carve Her Name With Pride was based on the true story of Violette Szabó GC, the 23 year old French speaking single mother who volunteered during WW2 to be an agent for the top secret Special Operations Executive (SOE). Shortly after parachuting into German occupied...
    50th Anniversary of 'Carve her name with pride'

  • Pride and delight: motivating pupils through poetic writing about the First World War

      Teaching History article
    This project emerged from team-teaching with history teachers in history lessons. Gill Minikin draws upon her expertise as an English teacher to help pupils become excited by the challenge of ‘squeezing language' into poems. History teachers often ask pupils to write poems but they do not necessarily draw upon all...
    Pride and delight: motivating pupils through poetic writing about the First World War

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills

      Teaching History article
    For those lucky history departments in and around Newcastle this article will not be news. Peter Fisher alludes to the quasi-religious atmosphere that is often discernible amongst history teachers who have been working with the Thinking Skills groups linked to University of Newcastle Department of Education. He is not exaggerating...
    Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills

  • Polychronicon 115: historians and the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' focuses on historians...
    Polychronicon 115: historians and the Holocaust

  • Recorded webinar series: Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the UN Convention on Genocide

      Multipage Article
    9 December 2023 was the 75th anniversary of the passing of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (known as the UN Convention on Genocide). The convention was a clear statement by the international community that crimes of that nature should never happen...
    Recorded webinar series: Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the UN Convention on Genocide

  • Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah

      Teaching History article
    Nicolas Kinloch’s 1998 review of Michael Burleigh’s Ethics and Extermination in Teaching History, 93, sparked a debate amongst our readers about the teaching of the Holocaust, concerning both rationales and practical approaches. Citing the damage caused to pupils’ understanding by a Spielberg view of history, he emphasised that the rationale...
    Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah

  • Polychronicon 119: The Second World War and popular culture

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' investigates World War...
    Polychronicon 119: The Second World War and popular culture

  • Drop the dead dictator: a Year 9 newsroom simulation

      Teaching History article
    Rosalind Stirzaker has big ambitions for her students. She wants them to do more than make a simple list of the key causes of the Second World War. Yes, she wants them to complete a piece of written work, but she wants – and gets – a great deal more...
    Drop the dead dictator: a Year 9 newsroom simulation

  • 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

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' examines the philosophical concept of the End of History.
    Nutshell

  • Podcast Series: Britain's Changing Population

      Podcasted history
    In Part 3 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK we look at diversity in the UK and examine African and Caribbean UK History, South Asian UK History and British Chinese History.  The first set of podcasts feature Dr Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood, Dr Sumita Mukherjee & Dr...
    Podcast Series: Britain's Changing Population

  • Ants and the Tet Offensive: teaching Year 11 to tell the difference

      Article
    The history department at Morpeth School in East London has improved performance at GCSE. The department has also done something unusual: it has abandoned coursework. This might seem a surprising decision but the rationale is interesting and clear. Arguably, the fundamental examination skills are identical to those needed for coursework...
    Ants and the Tet Offensive: teaching Year 11 to tell the difference

  • Edwardian England

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Edwardian era is still less than a lifetime away. Yet the memoirs of surviving Edwardians, written any time between the nineteen-twenties and the nineteen sixties, have often made it sound like a remote epoch. The years between the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and the outbreak of the...
    Edwardian England

  • The Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

      First World War News
    On Saturday 28th of June it will be 100 years since the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated with his wife Sophie in Sarajevo. As everyone knows or will know after this summer that assassination led to the start of the First World War. The young man who fired the...
    The Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

  • Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives,...
    Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

  • The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

      Historian article
    On 29 January 1949 there was a debate in the British House of Commons. When Winston Churchill, the leader of the opposition, interrupted Ernest Bevin’s history of the Palestine problem he was told by the Foreign Secretary: ‘over half a million Arabs have been turned by the Jewish immigrants into...
    The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

  • Year 9 use sources to explore contemporary meanings and understandings of appeasement

      Teaching History article
    After reflecting on the difference between his study of source extracts at university and how he was using source extracts in the classroom, Jonathan Sellin went in search of a new way to help his pupils to situate sources in context. Finding inspiration in the work of intellectual historian Quentin...
    Year 9 use sources to explore contemporary meanings and understandings of appeasement

  • Writing the First World War - Podcasts

      Writing the First World War
    The Writing the First World War event in partnership with the English Association and the British Library took place at the British Library in London on April 14th. Over 80 teachers attended a wonderful day of stimulating professional development which was kicked off by a thought provoking take on how...
    Writing the First World War - Podcasts

  • Mentioning the War: does studying World War Two make any difference to pupils' sense of British achievement and identity?

      Teaching History article
    All of this edition is based on the assumption that the teaching of history can have a significant impact upon the values, views and attitudes of our pupils. But how much impact does it have and of what type? And do we ever examine that impact in order to rethink...
    Mentioning the War: does studying World War Two make any difference to pupils' sense of British achievement and identity?