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  • Archives and Record Management

      Continuing Professional Development
    The University of Manchester gives the following advice on courses, careers and funding: Courses The choice for post-graduate courses is much more limited for archives and records management compared to those available for libraries and information studies. The Society of Archivists recommends just six: University College London, University College Dublin,...
    Archives and Record Management

  • Heritage Management & Education

      Continuing Professional Development
    1. Nottingham Trent University MA/PGCert/PGDip Museum and Heritage Management There is a need for multi-skilled, quality staff who combine a broad vision of the field in which they are working with practical expertise in the care and presentation of heritage. Their postgraduate heritage management courses combine the conceptual framework necessary...
    Heritage Management & Education

  • Museum & Gallery Courses

      Continuing Professional Development
    Museum & Gallery Courses

  • Volunteering in Heritage

      Briefing Pack
    How to: get a volunteering placement in heritage Rachel Clark, Volunteering Adviser, National Trust  has written a useful mini guide to getting a volunteering placement which can be found here... Volunteering with Heritage Organisations There are many different organisations across the UK dedicated to preserving our cultural heritage. If you want to...
    Volunteering in Heritage

  • Archives

      Briefing Pack
    1. Local Archives  Local Archives Offices contain an enormous amount of information including Census records, newspapers and property records. They are a useful point of call when either verifying information found on the internet or conducting deeper research beyond what is available on the main sources of family history such...
    Archives

  • Norfolk & Norwich Branch Programme

      Article
    Norfolk and Norwich Branch Programme 2024 - 25 Branch Contact: norwichha@gmail.com  Venue: Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Castle Hill, Norwich, NR1 3JUThe September relaunch event will be free. Events/Tours/Walks subsequently will be charged at £5 per event or an annual regional membership fee of £15. These fees will apply...
    Norfolk & Norwich Branch Programme

  • Tutankhamun, Howard Carter and the Griffith Institute

      Podcast
    Tutankhamun (c. 1341 BC – c. 1323 BC), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.  Tutankhamun acceded to the throne around the age of nine following the short reigns of his predecessors Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten. He married his half-sister Ankhesenpaaten, who was probably the mother of his two infant daughters. During his reign...
    Tutankhamun, Howard Carter and the Griffith Institute

  • Telling tales: Developing students' own thematic and synoptic understandings at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Ed Brooker is as concerned as the other authors within this edition that students should be able to see and make meaning out of ‘big pictures' of the past. He is acutely aware, however, that...
    Telling tales: Developing students' own thematic and synoptic understandings at Key Stage 3

  • Building memory and meaning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Sarah Gadd attempted to re-think her department's usual approach to the two-year Key Stage 3. Concerned that a thematic approach might not be securing the overview perspective it was designed to achieve, she decided instead...
    Building memory and meaning

  • Shaping macro-analysis from micro-history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many history teachers are inspired by the work of historians and want to share their stories and arguments with students in school. Hywel Jones found Malcolm Gaskill's Witchfinders ‘gripping and intriguing'. He decided to use...
    Shaping macro-analysis from micro-history

  • Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 4

      Close-knit Communities?
    In this episode, Dr Hailwood investigates what the relationship between villagers might have been like four centuries ago. There can be a tendency to romanticise the ‘close-knit’ communities of a past age, but through a case study of a pub crawl in a Somerset village we come to see that...
    Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 4

  • Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 3

      Isolated and Insular?
    In this episode, Dr Hailwood (University of Bristol) examines whether rural villages were really as cut off from the outside world as is often assumed. The evidence of court records not only shows that people often travelled quite far as part of their work, but also that surprisingly high levels...
    Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 3

  • Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 2

      Working Life
    In this episode, Dr Hailwood (University of Bristol) uses witness statements from court records to reconstruct a ‘typical’ working day for 17th century villagers. Contrary to our expectations that men toiled in the fields all day whilst women were occupied with work around the home, the evidence reveals that both...
    Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 2

  • Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 1

      ‘Hard, Cold, Short?’
    In this episode, Dr Hailwood (University of Bristol) asks whether everyday life in English villages 400 years ago was really as uncomfortable and harsh as we generally tend to think. Not everybody died young, and although ‘creature comforts’ were not up to modern standards there is plenty of evidence that...
    Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 1

  • The Baltic Crusades

      The Northern Crusades (1147-1410)
    In this podcast, Gregory Leighton, provides an introduction to the Baltic Crusades (also known as the Northern Crusades).  The Baltic Crusades were campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and also against Orthodox Christian Slavs. From the outset, Christian monarchs...
    The Baltic Crusades

  • 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

  • The Albigensian Crusade

      Podcast
    The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, what is now southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown and promptly took on a political aspect. It resulted in the significant reduction of practicing Cathars and a realignment of the County of...
    The Albigensian Crusade

  • Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909

      Historian article
    Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane, fifth baronet (1861-1934), a man of wideranging but seemingly contradictory passions and interests, was an idealistic but also hard-working aristocrat who played a major role in shaping the early Boy Scout movement in London. While the name of the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert...
    Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909

  • What did you do in The Great War? A family mystery explored

      Historian article
    Research into family history is well-known as likely to dig up some uncomfortable evidence. Nearly every family has had its bastards; nearly every generation has had someone on poor relief. We had both. But more troubling was my recent suspicion that a hundred or so years ago not one but two...
    What did you do in The Great War? A family mystery explored

  • The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front

      Historian article
    Faced with the testimony of the huge casualty lists of the First World War, the desperate battles of attrition, the emotive evidence of the seemingly endless cemeteries and memorials, the moving war poetry of men such as Owen and Sassoon, and the memoirs of those who fought, it is not...
    The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front

  • Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What should we do with our brightest and best? Neal Watkin and Johannes Ahrenfelt suggest an enquiry for a very high ability Year 8 group which is both challenging and genuinely historical. The enquiry itself...
    Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

  • Terms and Conditions

      Information
    Terms and Conditions1. Who we are and contact detailsThe Historical Association (HA) is an independent charity largely funded through membership subscriptions and our academic publishing. The objects for which the Association was established are to advance the study and teaching of history. Our address is The Historical Association, 59a Kennington...
    Terms and Conditions

  • One Year GCSE

      Briefing Pack
    Background A new development for curriculum change this year (2009) has been that many schools are now changing the pattern of GCSE/Key Stage 4 courses, following the ending of compulsory SATs for English, Maths and Science at the end of Key Stage 3. It is not yet clear how many...
    One Year GCSE

  • Enrichment Opportunities

      Briefing Pack
    Background History can be used to enrich students' experience of education in many ways.  Everything has a history and links can be made with, and support given to most other subjects.  Opportunities can be provided to classes, whole year groups, across year groups, or to individuals. Enrichment can be as...
    Enrichment Opportunities