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  • History 338

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles1. Drapery in Exile: Edward III, Colchester and the Flemings, 1351-1367 (pages 733-753) - Bart Lambert and Milan Pajic2. The Speed and Efficiency of the Tudor South-West's Royal Post-Stage Service (pages 754-774) - Ian Cooper3. Technologies of the Body: Polite Consumption and the Correction of Deformity in Eighteenth-Century England (pages...
    History 338

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 6

      Branch Publication
    This edition features articles on the following:Margaret McCloy - Letter from the EditorAndrew Green - Wales Coast PathCopper Ore Barques SponsorsMark Williams - The Falkland IslandsTrevor Fishlock - AfghanistanEna Niedergang - Griffith John and WuhanRobert Leonard - Peripatetic PottersJohn Ashley - Ethiopian TravelsSid Kidwell - Edgar EvansDr Fred Cowley -...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 6

  • Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Jacob Olivey describes his department’s efforts to both diversify their Key Stage 3 curriculum and secure greater curricular coherence. Building on a large body of research and practice, Olivey sought new forms of curricular coherence through the selection and sequencing of substantive content across the curriculum. He...
    Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum

  • Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives,...
    Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

  • What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches

      Teaching History article
    Much has been written in recent years about how historical scholarship can be used to shape practice in the classroom. As an historian of the medieval period now working as an history teacher, Dhwani Patel offers a fresh perspective on these debates. During her PGCE year, Patel found herself reflecting...
    What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches

  • Power, authority and geography

      Teaching History article
    Dissatisfied by her previous enquiries on medieval kingship and inspired by Helen Castor’s 'She-Wolves', Elizabeth Carr sought to incorporate the stories of powerful medieval women such as Empress Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine into her Key Stage 3 curriculum. Carr used these stories to highlight to her pupils the crucial...
    Power, authority and geography

  • Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies

  • Teaching History 184: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 184: Different lenses For millennia, human beings have used lenses as tools: to help them see further, to magnify or to correct defects of vision. Yet lenses can distort as well as illuminate the unseen. Robert Hooke, the seventeenth-century scientist who helped popularise the microscope through his...
    Teaching History 184: Out now

  • Captain Thomas and the North West Passage

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the early years of the seventeenth century Englishmen vigorously prosecuted the search for a North West Passage to the Pacific. The fabled wealth of India and Cathay beckoned to them as enticingly as it had attracted their sixteenth century predecessors. The foundation of the English East India Company in...
    Captain Thomas and the North West Passage

  • Scottish Diplomatists 1689-1789

      Classic Pamphlet
    The object of this pamphlet is to show the gradual penetration of Scotsmen after the Union into a particular branch of the public service - what may be conveniently though not very accurately described as the diplomatic service. This essay makes a study of the actual negotiations conducted by Scottish...
    Scottish Diplomatists 1689-1789

  • Global learning and development education

      Article
    Global learning and development education in the secondary school Development education is an approach to learning about global and development issues through recognising the importance of linking people's lives throughout the world. It encourages critical examination of global issues and awareness of the impact that individuals can have on these. ...
    Global learning and development education

  • ‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire

      Historian article
    In this article, Nicolas Kinloch examines the 1964 film Zulu. He suggests what it might tell us about the reality of the British Empire and asks if it has anything to say about the era in which the film was made. One of the most successful British films of 1964...
    ‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire

  • Legacies of the Cement Armada

      Historian article
    Steven Pierce writes about Nigeria, long known for its flamboyant corruption, some of which stems from accidents of history. Its true international notoriety emerged in 1974–75, when half the world’s concrete supply was mysteriously diverted to the port of Lagos, paralysing it for a year. This article examines how the press coverage...
    Legacies of the Cement Armada

  • The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

      Historian article
    Adam Simmons draws our attention to the need for further research into the relationship between the medieval Kingdoms of Ethiopia and Nubia – a fascinating time and place in African history which is neglected in the historical archive and about which, so far, there are only limited sources. The kingdoms of Ethiopia...
    The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

  • History Abridged: Language and the African continent

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles Africa is a huge continent...
    History Abridged: Language and the African continent

  • The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson

      Historian article
    Michael Crumplin comments on the injuries and illnesses that Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson suffered during his shortened career. His bold leadership style, much admired by his naval companions, inevitably led to a series of wounds. Using a combination of contemporary accounts and current clinical, anatomical and physiological interpretation, this article...
    The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson

  • History 337

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles1. The Amherst Embassy and British Discoveries in China (pages 568-587) - Gao Hao2. Toasting Fox: The Fox Dinners in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1801-1825 (pages 588-606) - T. E. Orme3. Eighteenth-Century Jamaica's Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism (pages 607-631) - James Robertson4. Britain, Balkan Conflicts and the Evolving Conceptions of Militarism, 1875-1913 (pages...
    History 337

  • The Historian 150: Aspects of Africa

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article for free) 6 The British Empire on trial – Gregory Gifford (Read article) 12 Zulu and the end of Empire – Nicolas Kinloch (Read article) 17 Legacies of the Cement Armada – Steven Pierce (Read article) 22 The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia: neighbouring strangers? –...
    The Historian 150: Aspects of Africa

  • Fundamental British Values and history teaching

      Article
    In this article, Michael Maddison provides an overview of what schools must do in relation to promoting British values, as well as preventing extremism and radicalisation, and why it is so important that opportunities are taken in history to deal with these two pressing issues. It is an updated version...
    Fundamental British Values and history teaching

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2014

      Survey Report
    ‘History for all' is a phrase that has been used by many, including politicians, and historical knowledge has long been viewed as an essential part of a citizens' understanding of Britain and the wider world. Unfortunately, the HA annual survey for 2014 has revealed that bit by small bit that...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2014

  • Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014

      Article
    An independent review of the quality and effectiveness of ITT courses, to be led by Andrew Carter was announced in May 2014 by the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. The review, which closed on September 22nd 2014, looked across the full range of ITT courses and sought views...
    Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014

  • History 371

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 371
    Access all articles online (you first need to be logged in to the HA website and subscribed to History) ‘Qu'il est question d'une langue sauvage’: Phrasebooks for European Travellers in Eighteenth-Century North America (pp 356-383) – Giulia Iannuzzi (Open Access) Travel, Expertise and Readers: Francesco Ottieri (1665–1742) and the Writing of Modern History (pp 384-408) –...
    History 371

  • HA Update: History for all – a wider view

      Teaching History feature
    In this update, I plan to share ideas and practice from colleagues who lead and teach history in special schools in the northeast of England. Ten years have passed since the publication of History for All and this therefore seems a good moment for reflection. By 2011, in many of England’s schools,...
    HA Update: History for all – a wider view

  • Inventing race? Using primary sources to investigate the origins of racial thinking in the past

      Teaching History article
    Having been given some additional curriculum time, Kerry Apps and her department made decisions about what had been missing in the previous curriculum diet. Building on an existing enquiry (in TH 176), Apps decided to focus on how and when the idea of race in its modern sense developed in early modern...
    Inventing race? Using primary sources to investigate the origins of racial thinking in the past

  • Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Making a passionate case for teaching Black British history in the secondary school curriculum, Hannah shares here the personal journey she has travelled in planning for Black British history in her curriculum. She cites her inspirations and offers striking examples to illustrate her rationale and approach to teaching this history....
    Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum