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  • Disability history resources

      Article
    Disabled people are part of the fabric of every society past and present, yet the stories, achievements and struggles of disabled people have often been hidden or marginalised by societies who refuse to adapt. Coping with disability, societal attitudes towards disability and the stories, voices and contributions of disabled people...
    Disability history resources

  • On-demand webinar: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 5: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery This 90-minute webinar will delve into the social, economic, and moral implications of this topic. It features an interview with historian Maxine Berg related to her research in this area, before suggesting tools for...
    On-demand webinar: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?

      Teaching History feature
    For such a boldly iconoclastic work, the Key Stage 3 textbook A New Focus on ... British Social History, c.1920–2000 (2023) provides a disarmingly conventional account of youth in the 1960s as ‘mostly better educated and informed than their parents had been at their age [and able] … to find...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?

  • Sudan Holy Mountain: Jebel Barkal and its Temples

      Guide Book
    This guide book was produced by Timothy Kendall and El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed (Co-Directors NCAM Archaeological Mission at Jebel Barkal) and has been published on our website by their kind permission (© 2022 Timothy Kendall and El-Hassan Ahmed Mohamed) to support our podcast that examines the history of Ancient Nubia and the Kushite...
    Sudan Holy Mountain: Jebel Barkal and its Temples

  • Virtual Branch recording: Tudor Liveliness?

      Discovering Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England
    In Tudor England, artworks were often described as ‘lively’. What did this mean in a culture where naturalism was an alien concept? And in a time of religious upheaval, when the misuse of images might lure the soul to hell, how could liveliness be a good thing? In this talk...
    Virtual Branch recording: Tudor Liveliness?

  • On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 4: Histories of the African continent This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover three elements: an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for exploring African history; Enquiry One: Africa and the development of religion; Enquiry Two: Decolonisation, Ideology and Race in Africa: the struggles...
    On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent

  • Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

      Connected and Competing Activisms
    How did a group of women activists with varied ideological backgrounds construct several important campaigns against fascism in the interwar period? How did this Women's World Committee against War and Fascism (Comité Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fascisme) undertake effective humanitarian and propaganda work and forge extensive...
    Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

  • Triumphs Show 192: Balancing micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Lien de Jong celebrates her 90th birthday in September 2023. In lots of ways, her biography is similar to many Europeans of her generation. She was born, grew up and went to school in The Hague during the 1930s. She trained to work in a nursery. In the 1950s, she...
    Triumphs Show 192: Balancing micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust

  • Virtual Branch recording: Empires of the Normans

      Virtual Branch Film
    How did descendants of Viking marauders come to dominate Western Europe and the Mediterranean, from the British Isles to North Africa, and Lisbon to the Holy Land and the Middle East? In this Virtual Branch talk Levi Roach, author of Empires of the Normans, tells a tale of ambitious adventures...
    Virtual Branch recording: Empires of the Normans

  • 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

  • Film: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire

      Age of Emergency
    In the 1950s, Britain fought a series of brutal wars against insurgents in the colonies of Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus. How did people at home experience these wars? How did they learn about the use of torture and other unsettling tactics? And how did they respond to this knowledge? In...
    Film: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire

  • On-demand webinar: Black British history

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 2: Black British history This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for including Black stories in British history. It will include particular references to teaching Black British History and the Second World War. Release date: Monday 30...
    On-demand webinar: Black British history

  • On-demand webinar: Histories of Islamic societies

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 3: Histories of Islamic societies This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover three elements: an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for exploring Islamic societies; Enquiry One: Science and Knowledge in Medieval Muslim societies; Enquiry Two: Modernity and Iran in the 20th century....
    On-demand webinar: Histories of Islamic societies

  • Recorded webinar: Introduction to decolonising the secondary history curriculum

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
      This recorded webinar will explore what we mean by decolonising the curriculum and outline principles of approach and explore key concepts involved. Making school history relevant as well as rigorous is our priority and school leaders will want their history department to be at the cutting edge of work that...
    Recorded webinar: Introduction to decolonising the secondary history curriculum

  • Recorded Webinar: Mass-Observing Modern Britain

      Article
    Mass-Observation is probably the most consistently useful source for the study of mid and late 20th social lives Britain. It was established in 1937 with the aim of investigating ordinary life and developing an 'anthropology of ourselves.' It used a range of different methods to collect information, from recording overheard...
    Recorded Webinar: Mass-Observing Modern Britain

  • Recorded webinar: Teaching the 'People's History' of the Munich Crisis

      Mental health, class, gender and diversity
    Professor Julie Gottlieb has written extensively on inter-war British political and gender history, and her more recent work has provided alternative perspectives on seemingly settled debates in the historiography of British foreign policy and the history of appeasement. Through the lens of women/gender, social history, and now psychology/emotion, she argues for a...
    Recorded webinar: Teaching the 'People's History' of the Munich Crisis

  • Film: A short history of Islamic thought

      Article
    In his book of the same name, A short history of Islamic thought, Dr Fitzroy Morrissey provides a concise introduction to the origins and sources of Islamic thought, from its beginnings in the 7th century to the current moment. In this talk he explores the major ideas and introduces the...
    Film: A short history of Islamic thought

  • Recorded Webinar: Teaching Jewish histories

      Article
    Where Jews appear on school curricula, they tend to appear as victims, particularly in the context of the Nazi genocide. The vibrant diversity of Jewish life in preceding centuries is underexplored, and students are given little context for understanding the growth of antisemitism. This webinar delves into this vibrant richness...
    Recorded Webinar: Teaching Jewish histories

  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision

      Article
    In this second webinar in our series on writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman talks about the actual process of writing the story, with examples. The difficulty of the first page - how to start your story with impact and make sure the reader is gripped from the first line....
    Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision

  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

      Article
    In this first webinar about writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman will talk about how ideas grow from reading and thinking about history. Once you have a good idea, then you need to research it properly, starting with secondary sources for context, then moving on to more specific reading. Visits...
    Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

  • Film: Berengaria of Navarre

      History & Myth
    In this talk Dr Gabrielle Storey discusses the life and times of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of England, lord of Le Mans, and wife of Richard I. Berengaria of Navarre has been inaccurately labelled as the only queen never to have stepped foot in England. This talk will present new analysis...
    Film: Berengaria of Navarre

  • Film: Rome in the world/the world in Rome with Dr Lucy Donkin

      Article
    In-person tickets to HA Annual Conference 2023 are now limited but you can still book for an incredible virtual programme. To give you a taster of the fantastic sessions on offer, we've published one of the sessions from last year's HA Conference on Rome in the world/the world in Rome with...
    Film: Rome in the world/the world in Rome with Dr Lucy Donkin

  • Film: Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea

      Article
    Professor Jan Rüger joined the Virtual Branch on 9th February 2023 to talk about his book Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea, tracing a rich history of contact and conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War. For generations this North Sea island expressed a German...
    Film: Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea

  • The Coronation of King Charles III

      Resources for secondary schools
    2023 will see the first coronation of a British monarch for 70 years. Only those now in their 70s or above will remember the last one. The UK is the only country in Europe still to carry out a coronation, a ceremony that has its roots in traditions over a...
    The Coronation of King Charles III

  • Investigating ‘sense of place’ with Year 9 pupils

      Teaching History article
    Confined to his home during lockdown in 2020, teacher Josh Mellor became eager to explore the history of the physical environment on his doorstep. After reading about different approaches to using environmental history in the classroom, Mellor decided to design an enquiry to explore the changing landscape of the Fens in...
    Investigating ‘sense of place’ with Year 9 pupils