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  • Ferninando Gorges and New England

      Classic Pamphlet
    Sir Ferdinando Gorges (July 1565 - May 24, 1647), by some considered the "Father of English Colonization in North America", was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622, although Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.  Sir Ferdinando Gorges was born...
    Ferninando Gorges and New England

  • Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

      Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
    In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
    Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

  • Key Concepts at Key Stage 3

      Key Concepts
    Please note: This unit was produced before the 2014 National Curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links. For more recent resources on key concepts, see our What's the Wisdom on series. The key concepts can be divided into three...
    Key Concepts at Key Stage 3

  • Lucy Worsley: How to build an Anniversary

      Annual Conference Film
    Do you sometimes heave a cynical sigh when you hear that it's 175 years since the invention of, say, the paperclip, and that a wealth of exhibitions, books and TV programmes are planned to celebrate the fact?  Well, anniversaries can be a powerful hook to get people interested in the...
    Lucy Worsley: How to build an Anniversary

  • Out and About - On the Track of Brunel

      Historian feature
    In ‘Brushstrokes', his essay on biography, Ben Pimlott wrote: ‘A good biography is like a good portrait: it captures the essence of the sitter by being much more than a likeness. A good portrait is about history, philosophy, milieu. It asks questions as well as answering them, brushstrokes are economical,...
    Out and About - On the Track of Brunel

  • Obituaries: the first verdict in history

      Historian article
    Last year marked the deaths of two world-renowned historical figures - Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Their obituaries reflected the marked contrast in the way the pair were viewed. Mandela ended up by being universally admired, while Thatcher was both adored and despised in seemingly equal measure. Writer Nigel Starck...
    Obituaries: the first verdict in history

  • The Black Leveller

      Historian Article
    History is rarely far removed from today's concerns. What is true of history in general is true of biography; specifically. Darcus Howe: a political biography is no exception. In writing it, we were consciously intervening in current debates about Britain and ‘race'. The impetus to write emerged in 2008 during...
    The Black Leveller

  • The Unfortunate Captain Peirce

      Historian article
    An apprentice biographer researches the career of an eighteenth-century sea captain On a cold January afternoon in 1986, my neighbour announced that he intended to go to Dorset's Purbeck coast that night. Puzzled, I asked why. He explained it was the 200th anniversary of the wreck of the East Indiaman,...
    The Unfortunate Captain Peirce

  • The Historian 121: Historical Biography

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Review - John F. Kennedy 5 Editorial 6 Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses - Ian Dawson (Read Article) 13 The President's Column 14 Contemporary and Historical Biography: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-14: A ten-year review - Lawrence Goldman 20 The Unfortunate Captain Peirce:...
    The Historian 121: Historical Biography

  • Some Reflections on Empathy in History

      Article
    Undoubtedly, the introduction of empathy into the GCSE National Criteria for History has caused considerable problems for teachers and pupils, as debates in the national educational press have shown. It cannot be presupposed that...
    Some Reflections on Empathy in History

  • Studying History at University: Teacher's guide

      University Application Guide
    Every year hundreds of students, supported by their teachers and schools apply to study history at university. How do you make sure that you or your students stand out from the crowd and get the place they want? This helpful guide is written by Tony McConnell, Deputy Head of Merchant Taylors' Prep...
    Studying History at University: Teacher's guide

  • The Early Mediaeval State

      Classic Pamphlet
    In order to define the constitution of a state, theorists and historians still apply Aristotle's categories; monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. This method has obvious limitations; there can be no doubt that the formal sovereignty either of an individual or of a minority or a majority does not of itself suffice...
    The Early Mediaeval State

  • Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837

      Classic Pamphlet
    Radicalism with a large "R", unlike Conservatism with a large "C" and Liberalism with a large "L", is not a historical term of even proximate precision. There was never a Radical Party with a national organization, local associations, or a treasury. But there were, and there are, "Radicals", generally qualified...
    Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837

  • Local Authority Housing

      Classic Pamphlet
    Local authority housing has been a distinctive feature of the British housing system throughout the twentieth century. This pamphlet outlines the development of local authority housing in Britain from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day, focusing on the ways in which policy changes have affected...
    Local Authority Housing

  • The Bristol Riots

      Classic Pamphlet
    In 1831, Bristol suffered the worst outbreak of urban rioting since the Gordon Riots in London over fifty years earlier. Twelve rioters were officially declared to have died as a result of confrontations with troops and special constables, and many more unidentifiable corpses were discovered among the ruins of the...
    The Bristol Riots

  • Peter Abelard

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Library contains a large number of entries under the name of Peter Abelard. Most relate to books published in the last two hundred years and most of the editions of works written by Abelard, as distinct from books about him or about...
    Peter Abelard

  • Teaching History 17

      Journal
    About the journal, 2 The Editors, 2 Islam in history, 3 Resources - Islam in history, 5 African history in the classroom, 7 History in Central Africa, 10 Review article - recently published books on African history, 13 The historian's method - a course for the 'A' level student, 15...
    Teaching History 17

  • Teaching History 18

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The contributors, 2 Geffrye Museum: People's Museum, 3 Report: Staffordshire Courses, July 1976, 5A Renaissance in history 'A' level, 6 Exploring a Community's Past, 11 Comment, 14 Making the best use of textbooks, 16 Detective exercises are not quite enough, 22 Review article - imagination and the historian,...
    Teaching History 18

  • Teaching History 19

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 The Genesis of the History Teaching Film - B. J. Elliott, 3 Film and the History Teacher - J. Duckworth, 8 A Select List of Feature Films of use in the Teaching of History - T. Gwynn, 11 New Approaches to the Study and Teaching...
    Teaching History 19

  • Teaching History 20

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3 What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5 Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8 16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10 Comment, 13 Reports: Language and History Teaching, 15 History...
    Teaching History 20

  • Teaching History 21

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3 Classified Advertisements, 8 An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9 Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15 Teaching the Varieties of...
    Teaching History 21

  • Teaching History 23

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Teaching History: A Content Analysis of Numbers 1 to 20 - Keith Hodgkinson and J. B. Thomas, 3 History in Sixth Form Colleges in Hampshire - Joan Blyth, 7 `Booth at Hitchin': Assessing Thinking in History - Bernard Barker and Alan Southgate, 10 The Britannicus Letters...
    Teaching History 23

  • Teaching History 24

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 3 `Public and Private Lives: Germany 1914 to 1939' - Diana Devlin, 3 The Perils of Clio in France - Clive Church, 7 Trends in History Teaching in France - L. 0. Ward, 12 How to Evaluate a History Department - John Higham, 14 Constraints in...
    Teaching History 24

  • Teaching History 25

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, 2 The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1979, 3 The Contributors, 3 Patrick Richardson (1927-1979), 5 CEE History - One approach - Ian Dawson, 6 The Teaching of History, 11-18, A Consistent Approach - Jon Nichol, 9 Contradictory Ideas - Hugh Nicklin, 15 The...
    Teaching History 25

  • Teaching History 26

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 Contributors, 3 Trainee Teachers of History and Infants as Learners - John Fines, 3 Howler of the Year Competition, 5 A Castle in a Classroom - Carole Taylor and Joan Allmark, 6 Indian Village: a Simulation Exercise - Thomas F. Willer and Bruce M. Haight, 9 Bias in...
    Teaching History 26