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  • Contribute to our Publications

      Guide to submitting an article
    The Historical Association produces five main publications: The Historian, Teaching History (journal for secondary teachers), Primary History, History (the journal of the HA), and the History Education Research Journal (HERJ). We are always looking for new authors to contribute articles to these publications! Find out how to submit an article to one...
    Contribute to our Publications
  • Representations of Empire: Learning through Objects

      Key Stages 2 and 3
    Produced by the Northamptonshire Black History Association and originally published in 2008, this is one of a set of resources for schools offering a more inclusive map of the past that includes an appreciation of Black History within the local, national and global context. The resources provide a range of opportunities to promote diversity within the curriculum. Contents of...
    Representations of Empire: Learning through Objects
  • A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs

      Teaching History article
    Holocaust imagery is very familiar, clichéd even. How can we get pupils thinking about it in novel ways and seeing differently? Phillips reports work completed with his PGCE students, proposes a scaffold of questions with which to deconstruct images and applies it to  archive images and to Hollywood representations. Images...
    A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs
  • Film: Elizabeth I - Interpretations

      Article
    Film: Elizabeth I - Interpretations
  • Move Me On 140: Getting students to generate their own enquiry questions

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Rafe Sadler has just started his second teaching placement and is worried about the very different ways of working and expectations of teachers in his new department. In his first school, where history was taught within a humanities programme, the Key Stage 3 scheme of work had...
    Move Me On 140: Getting students to generate their own enquiry questions
  • Broadening horizons: using cross-curricular conversations to support historical understanding

      Teaching History article
    Bettney and Ridley focus on the context in which we teach and in which our students learn and on history in the context of the whole school curriculum and in relation to education about personal development. Taking the example of learning about parliament, they explore how the history curriculum and the...
    Broadening horizons: using cross-curricular conversations to support historical understanding
  • Arctic aspirations: Britain and Icelandic independence, 1917–18

      Historian article
    As it sought independence, Iceland gained a new significance for Britain during the latter stages of the First World War, writes Ben Markham.  At the turn of the twentieth century, Iceland was not an independent country. Isolated in the North Atlantic Ocean, it was nonetheless considered an integral part of...
    Arctic aspirations: Britain and Icelandic independence, 1917–18
  • The Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on Britain

      Podcast
    In this podcast Professor Patrick O'Brien of the London School of Economics discusses the economic impact of the Revoutionary and Napoleonic wars on Britain.
    The Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on Britain
  • The International Journal Volume 12, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Sweden Ethical Values and History: a mutual relationship? Niklas Ammert, Linnaeus University (Kalmar)   Australia  Teaching History Using Feature Films: practitioner acuity and cognitive neuroscientific validation Debra Donnelly, University of Newcastle   Greece  The Difficult Relationship Between the History of the Present and School History in Greece: cinema as...
    The International Journal Volume 12, Number 1
  • Baghdad: what were its connections across the medieval world?

      Primary History article
    Baghdad of the Abbasid Caliphate was an architectural marvel, a round city protected by huge walls and surrounded by an intricate canal system. At the centre lay the caliph’s palace with a cupola of green, and the Great Mosque. The city was a series of concentric circles. The surrounding walls were over 240...
    Baghdad: what were its connections across the medieval world?
  • Jewish-Christian Relations between 1100-1600

      European History
    In this podcast Professor Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University of London looks at Christian-Jewish relations in Europe between 1100-1600.
    Jewish-Christian Relations between 1100-1600
  • Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest

      HA Mini Teacher Fellowship 2020–21
    In the summer of 2020 a group of teachers took part in a mini teacher fellowship on medieval perceptions of conquest. Teachers took part in a two-day course led by academic historians Dr Emily Winkler of Oxford University and Dr Owain Jones of Bangor University. Sadly, due to the covid...
    Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest
  • The Historical Association Response to the Initial Teacher Training Market Review Consultation

      26th August 2021
    On 5 July 2021 the government launched a consultation into proposals for reform of initial teacher training in England following a review of the market. The recommendations are part of wider reforms to initial teacher training. The proposals outlined in the consultation included the extension of courses to allow for...
    The Historical Association Response to the Initial Teacher Training Market Review Consultation
  • Move Me On 136: Struggling to teach elite politics/international relations

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Ernest Briggs, who wants pupils to engage with the real lives of ordinary people in the past, is struggling to learn to teach courses that he thinks are too narrowly focused on elite politics and international relations. Ernest, initially one of the most animated and enthusiastic trainees on...
    Move Me On 136: Struggling to teach elite politics/international relations
  • Triumphs Show 136: how one history department changed pupils' and parents' perceptions of homework

      Teaching History feature
    Devising worthwhile and engaging homework tasks, week in week out, can prove both demanding and frustrating - particularly in contexts where we know students will have be chased to complete them. How can we make homework planning easier and more effective - and cut down the time spent chasing recalcitrant...
    Triumphs Show 136: how one history department changed pupils' and parents' perceptions of homework
  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles in the edition: Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation' Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2
  • Interpretations

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Interpretations of the past.  A selection of useful Teaching History Articles on 'Interpretations' and are highly recommended reading to those who would like to get to grips with this key concept: 1....
    Interpretations
  • Linking history and science: how climate affected settlement

      Primary History article
    Karin Doull looks at how previous civilisations were affected by natural climate change, often precipitated by volcanic eruptions. She suggests that any investigation into ancient civilisations should consider how physical geography contributed to the initial settlement and development. She argues that we should also look at what might have contributed to...
    Linking history and science: how climate affected settlement
  • Key national History Subject Associations and institutes in the UK and their remits

      Multipage Article
    Three Subject Associations and a key national institute keep a watching brief as part of much wider remits on issues pertaining to the relationship of history as it is taught and researched in British universities and history as it is taught and learned in schools. Their interests inevitably overlap, but...
    Key national History Subject Associations and institutes in the UK and their remits
  • Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Kimberley Anthony and her history colleagues were troubled by Year 9's assumption that World War II was the only interesting thing that they were going to do in Year 9. Nineteenth-century industrialisation, even their own...
    Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century
  • Opportunities, challenges and questions: continual assessment in Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Our means of assessment might pose a problem. History teachers regularly set specific targets, with implicit or explicit reference to National Curriculum Levels, which are designed to move our pupils on and make them better historians. How, though, are we to prevent them from achieving their targets in a rather...
    Opportunities, challenges and questions: continual assessment in Year 9
  • Assessment without Level Descriptions

      Teaching History article
    Two heads of department in contrasting schools explain why they do not use Level Descriptions at all, other than at the very end of Key Stage 3. Influenced by ‘assessment for learning' principles, Sally Burnham and Geraint Brown develop a case for using assessment to help pupils grow in understanding...
    Assessment without Level Descriptions
  • Donations & Legacies

      Supporting the HA
    The Historical Association has been the voice of history for over 100 years working with schools, the government and the general public to preserve and maintain our historical heritage.  We do not receive government grant or subsidy for our general work and so we depend on membership and fundraising. For...
    Donations & Legacies
  • Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making

      Teaching History article
    While previous work on historical interpretations has focused students’ attention on the particular questions that historians have been asking or the context in which they have been posing those questions, less attention has been paid to the process of historical narration itself – the decisions that are made in telling...
    Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making
  • The International Journal Volume 6

      Journal
    Articles Isabel Barca and Helena PintoHow Children Make Sense of Historic Streets: Walking through Downtown Guimaraes   Min Fui CheeTraining Teachers for the Effective Use of Museums   Terrie EpsteinThe Effects of Family/Community and School Discourses on Children's and Adolescents' Interpretations of United States History   David GerwinObject Lessons: Teachers,...
    The International Journal Volume 6