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The Impact and Significance of the Great Patriotic War
20th Century Russian History
In this podcast, Dr Jonathan Davis of Anglia Ruskin University looks at the Great Patriotic War and the effects it had on the USSR. Dr Davis discusses how Russian involvement in World War II changed the lives of Soviet citizens, legitimised Stalin’s rule, and set the stage for the USSR’s...
The Impact and Significance of the Great Patriotic War
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Teacher Fellowship Programmes
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The Historical Association's Teacher Fellowship Programme is a fully funded, rigorous, in-depth CPD programme which normally runs over 8 weeks starting with a intensive residential weekend and followed up by 8 online sessions. We bring our academic partners together with an experienced teacher educator to design a programme that brings your research...
Teacher Fellowship Programmes
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Writing the First World War - Podcasts
Writing the First World War
The Writing the First World War event in partnership with the English Association and the British Library took place at the British Library in London on April 14th.
Over 80 teachers attended a wonderful day of stimulating professional development which was kicked off by a thought provoking take on how...
Writing the First World War - Podcasts
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Iconoclasm
The History of the Byzantine Empire
This podcasts looks at the two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when the use of religious images or icons was opposed by religious and imperial authorities within the Eastern Church and the temporal imperial hierarchy.
Iconoclasm
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'Modernising Calcutta' by Professor Anindita Ghosh: filmed branch lecture
Watch the HA's first live-streamed branch lecture
On 3 December 2018, the Bolton Branch marked a first for the HA by live-streaming a lecture on Twitter. Professor Anindita Ghosh of the University of Manchester spoke to the branch on Calcutta in the 19th century. The event was streamed live on the branch’s Twitter feed, @boltonhistory.
Watch the lecture here (NB external website, opens...
'Modernising Calcutta' by Professor Anindita Ghosh: filmed branch lecture
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Hollywood vs. Homer
Primary History article
You don't need a degree in film studies or Classics to enjoy the Hollywood blockbuster: Troy. Or to enjoy Brad Pitt, for that matter! But the question my teacher friend asked me, after two hours and forty minutes of being with Brad in a warm, dark place, was a great...
Hollywood vs. Homer
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Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Does differentiation have to mean different? – Richard Harris (Read article)
13 Engaging with each other: how interactions between teachers inform professional practice – Simon Letman (Read article)
17 Seeing, hearing and doing the Rennaissance (Part 2) – Maria Osowiecki (Read article)
26 Polychronicon: Henry VII: Diligent bureaucrat or paranoid blunderer? (Read...
Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation
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Teaching History 163: Get Excited & Carry On
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Grammar. Nazis. Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’? - James Edward Carroll (Read article)
17 Shaping the debate: why historians matter more than ever at GCSE - Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie (Read article)
25 Cunning plan 1:...
Teaching History 163: Get Excited & Carry On
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Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom
Teaching History feature
Big ideas, making connections, citizenship, thinking skills. We were nothing if not ambitious in our planning for this unit for a lower attaining Year 8 group at Langley School in Solihull. Having identified the big ideas which could underpin a dialogue between history and citizenship and make the connections between...
Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom
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Hull & East Riding Branch Programme
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Branch Contact: Sylvia Usher (Branch Secretary) usher@usher.karoo.co.uk
Venue: The Nordic Centre, aka Danish Church, Osborne Street, Hull HU1 2PN. Small car park at the church. No charge for those attending meetings. On street parking also possible. Meetings are held on Thursdays, starting at 7.30pm
Associate membership: £12; visitors: £3. No...
Hull & East Riding Branch Programme
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School Direct: Salaried and Fee-paying routes
Routes into Teaching
What is the School Direct route into teaching?
The label ‘School Direct’ refers to training places that the government has allocated directly to a group of schools working in partnership to offer teacher training. Each partnership includes at least one school designated as a ‘Teaching School’, which is likely to...
School Direct: Salaried and Fee-paying routes
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History of the Cumbria Branch
Branch History
Cumbria Branch was founded in November 1971 as a result of a very successful tour of Hadrian's Wall, led by Peter Southern. We decided we needed a more permanent influence of the H.A. in Carlisle and Cumbria. There had been a Carlisle Branch earlier in the C20th but it folded...
History of the Cumbria Branch
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Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mandy Caller mandycaller@gmail.com or telephone 07818 063594
Meetings are held at 8pm on the third Thursday of the month September to April (excluding December) at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way, London NW11 6YD.
Some lectures are also on Zoom. See below for details.
The cost of local...
Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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HA Branches in the West Midlands
Branch details by region
Mid-Trent & Mercia Branch
Further details can always be obtained from Trevor James on 01543-258434 or Sylvia Clifford on 01283-536250
Venues and times are listed with each meeting.
All Branch meetings and sessions are free to HA/Branch members but there will be a small charge for visitors.
Mid-Trent Branch Programme
Nuneaton Branch...
HA Branches in the West Midlands
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History 359
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 359
Guest editors: Catherine Kelly and Joan Tumblety
Articles
All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:
1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.
NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new...
History 359
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HA Podcast Series: James VI & I to Anne
James VI & I to Anne
In this series of podcasts we look at British and Irish History from the Union of the Crowns to Queen Anne.
This series features: Mr Simon Healy, Dr Frank Tallett, Professor Jackie Eales, Dr Andrew Hopper, Professor Michael Braddick, Dr Jason Peacey, Professor Peter Gaunt, Professor Barry Coward, Professor John...
HA Podcast Series: James VI & I to Anne
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What's New About New Labour?
Historian article
In the 1980s it was often argued that the Labour party was finished as a major force in British politics. Yet on 1st May 1997 it won a landslide victory, securing an overall majority of 179 in parliament. Two years into its term of office, it retains a strong lead...
What's New About New Labour?
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Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges and Opportunities
Primary History article
“It’s like they’ve gone up a year!” This was the unprompted observation of a teaching assistant at Buckden Primary School last summer, supporting Giles Fullard, a secondary history teacher from Hinchingbrooke School, near Huntingdon leading a lesson with a year 6 class on “Was Boudicca Britain’s first hero?” The scheme...
Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges and Opportunities
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'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes
Article
Notwithstanding the tribal hatred recently shown for each other by a handful of English and Turkish football fanatics, nobody who has travelled in Turkey or taken a holiday in that country can have failed to notice the courtesy and generosity with which visitors are invariably treated. Indeed, one of the...
'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes
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Contact your branch
Information
Bath
Mr M Short
01225 812 945
mikeshort20@btinternet.com
Beckenham & Bromley
Mrs A Wagstaff
020 8777 7742
aj60@dial.pipex.com
Bolton
Ms Melissa Wright
07912 369060
MWright@boltonschool.org
Bournemouth
Dr R Hill
0300 100 0223
suzannah.stern@history.org.uk
Bristol
Ms M Feerick
0117 9442896
maryfeerick58@gmail.com
Buckinghamshire
Terry Bloxham
01296 708926
secretarybucksha@gmail.com
Cambridge
Dr Sean Lang...
Contact your branch
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The Historian 157: United States
The magazine of the Historical Association
5 Editorial (Read article - open access)
6 Ending Camelot: the assassination of John F Kennedy – Nicolas Kinloch (Read article)
11 Letters
12 Anti-Americanism in Britain during the Second World War – Kit Kowol (Read article)
17 The portrayal of historians in fiction: people on the edge? – Michael Bender (Read article)...
The Historian 157: United States
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The commercial architecture of Victorian Liverpool
Article
In 1857 the Builder enthusiastically described the thriving state of architecture on the banks of the Mersey: 'The impression from a walk through the principal quarters of the town, after visiting other towns, is that more [building of a superior kind] must be doing in Liverpool than at any other...
The commercial architecture of Victorian Liverpool
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Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE
Teaching History article
Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock have collaborated before: Woodcock extended Chapman’s familiar casual metaphor of the final straw breaking a poor abused camel’s back. Here, they collaborate more explicitly to suggest a means of teaching students to produce adequately nuanced historical explanation. Their two central ideas are to produce a...
Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE
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Supporting resources
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A wealth of resources exist on the rest of the HA website and on the HA Secondary Committee’s blog onebighistorydepartment (OBHD) to help teachers and to support better history teaching.
In addition, many books and articles have been published that are easily available to school history teachers. On this page you...
Supporting resources
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Bath Branch Programme
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Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture.
For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945.
Lectures begin at 7.30 pm at...
Bath Branch Programme
