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                                                                                Museum Education
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Reading ListMuseum Education Reading List provided by the Victoria and Albert Museum
Allen, D. A. 'Museums and Education.' Museums in Modern Life: Seven Papers Read Before the Royal Society of the Arts in March, April and May 1949, 86-106. London: RSA, 1949. NAL pressmark: 22.N.17
American Association of Museums. Excellence and... Museum Education
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                                                                                History of the Isle of Wight Branch
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Branch HistoryAlthough the Historical Association was formed in 1906, sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on the Isle of Wight.  From the HA's archives, stored at Nottingham University, the annual reports indicate the Branch was formed in June 1922 and by the end of the first year there was a... History of the Isle of Wight Branch
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                                                                                Teaching Slavery
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    HA GuidePlease note: this guide was written in 2010 and some links may no longer work. For more recent guidance, see: 
Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade (2019)
Slavery in Britain (2013)
Sarah Forbes Bonetta - scheme of work (2015)
Diversity guidance for primary teachers and subject leaders (2019)
Teaching Slavery... Teaching Slavery
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                                                                                Library and Information Studies
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Continuing Professional DevelopmentPlease note: the HA is not responsible for the content of external websites, and we cannot guarantee that all information on this page is current.
University College LondonMA/Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information StudiesIf you want to progress in library or information work, you need a professional qualification, normally chartered... Library and Information Studies
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                                                                                Archives and Record Management
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Continuing Professional DevelopmentThe 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
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                                                                                Heritage Management & Education
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Continuing Professional Development1. 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
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                                                                                Museum & Gallery Courses
                                        
                                            
                                        
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                                                                                Volunteering in Heritage
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Briefing PackHow 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
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                                                                                Archives
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Briefing Pack1. 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
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                                                                                Tutankhamun, Howard Carter and the Griffith Institute
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    PodcastTutankhamun (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
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                                                                                Telling tales: Developing students' own thematic and synoptic understandings at Key Stage 3
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articlePlease 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
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                                                                                Building memory and meaning
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articlePlease 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
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                                                                                Shaping macro-analysis from micro-history
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Teaching History articlePlease 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
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                                                                                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
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                                                                                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
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                                                                                Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 2
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Working LifeIn 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
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                                                                                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
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                                                                                Teaching Red Scarf Girl
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    ArticleFacing History and Ourselves is excited to announce a new study guide. Teaching Red Scarf Girl has been developed to help classrooms explore essential Facing History themes, including conformity, obedience, prejudice and justice. Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li Jiang's engaging memoir, provides an insightful window into the first tumultuous years of... Teaching Red Scarf Girl
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                                                                                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
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                                                                                The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    JournalThe 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
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                                                                                Interpretations
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Key ConceptsPlease 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
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                                                                                The Albigensian Crusade
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    PodcastThe 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
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                                                                                Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleSir 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
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                                                                                What did you do in The Great War? A family mystery explored
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleResearch 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
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                                                                                The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    Historian articleFaced 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