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3 Feature: Images: Catherine II of Russia, Enlightened Absolutism, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Roger Bartlett
10 Update: Disraeli, Ian Machin
12 Portfolio: The Secret 'Iron Tongs' of Midwifery, Joyce Rushen
14 Terylene, Rex Collins
16 Local History: The Ordnance Survey: A Quick Guide for Historians, Richard Oliver
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3 Feature: Cultural Life in Latin America in the Age of the Enlightenment, John Fisher
10 Update: Spain and Portugal - From Dictatorship to Democracy, Richard Robinson
13 Portfolio: The Pageant of Monarchy: Royal Ceremonial in the Early Nineteenth Century, E.A. Smith
17 Local History: Can Our Record Offices Cope?...
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3 Feature: The Ending of a Myth: The Fall of Singapore, 1942, Joseph Kennedy
9 Update: The Conservative Party and British Politics 1902-40, Stuart Ball
12 Education Forum: The Job of an Archives Education Officer, Mary Mills
28 Spotlight: Sheffield
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3 Feature: Looking Back on the Levellers, Austin Woolrych
10 Update: The Vietnam War, Peter Riddick
13 Education Forum: History in the National Curriculum and All That: Year One, Ian Coulson
14 Communications: County Records Office, F.B. Stitt
18 Local History: Managing the Past: Archaeology in the National Parks, Robert...
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Featured articles:
3 Feature: Charlemagne, Stuart Airlie
10 Update: Did the Liberals still have a Future in 1914?, Geoffrey Searle
13 Record Linkage: Perceptions of the Public Record Office, Sarah Tyacke
16 Anniversary: The Massacre of Glencoe, Allan Macinnes
19 Report: History in Higher Education: A Change That's Purely Academic,...
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Featured articles:
3 Feature: Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier, Margaret Walsh
10 Update: Medieval Women, Patricia Skinner
13 Anniversary: Tunnel Under the Thames, R.A. Buchanan
18 Project: Interviews with Historians, Pat Thane
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Featured articles:
3 Feature: Byron, Romanticism and the Independence of Greece, Julian Robinson
9 Update: Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1500-1707, Michael Lynch
12 Education Forum: Museum Education and the National Currculum, Maureen Lochrie
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3 Feature: The Black Death, James L. Bolton
10 Update: The Causes of British Imperialism: Battle Rejoined, Muriel Chamberlain
13 Biography: Sir Humphry Davy, 1778-1829: A Life Too Long? David M. Knight
16 Historiography: Historical Atlases Reconsidered, Jeremy Black
22 Personalia: Chris Wrigley
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The Historian 41
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Featured articles
3 Feature: Greek Oracles and Greek Democracy, Hugh Bowden
9 Update: Dark Age Italy, Ross Balzaretti
12 Education Forum: The Young Historian Scheme, John Fines
28 Spotlight: The Vacation School, Hull
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Featured articles
3 Feature: Henry the Great? - E.W. Ives
9 Update: Eisenhower - Peter Boyle
13 Historiography: The Historical Novel: History as Fiction and Fiction as History - David Powell
16 Historiography: Has History Ceased to be Relevant? - Alan Bullock
21 Education Forum: The National Trust - Tricia Lankester...
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3 Feature: A Democratic Experiment: France in 1848 - Olena and Colin Heywood
10 Profile: Always Splendid and Never Isolated: Lord Salisbury and the Public Scene, 1830 to 1903 - Michael Hurst
15 Education Forum: Domesday Dearing? - Martin Light
16 Update: Sir Robert Walpole's Black Box - Philip Woodfine
19 Short Feature: 'Indispensible Yet...
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3 Feature: Images of English Queens in the Later Middle Ages - Elizabeth Danbury
11 Local History: The Reformation and the Parish Church: Local Responses to National Directives - Joe Bettey
15 Education Forum: History in the Primary School: the Curriculum Review (- or Sir Ron'sother Lottery) - Roy Hughes
16 Record...
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Featured articles
3 Feature: The British Empire and the Peace Conferences 1919-1923 - Michael Dockrill
9 Update: Taking Stock of Crime - Clive Emsley
13 Biography: When the Kissing had to Stop: Passion in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft - Susan Alendus
17 Local History: The VCH: Past, Present and Future - Kate Tiller...
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3 Assessing British India - P.J. Marshall
9 Local History: W.G. Hoskins and the Local Springs of English History - Charles Phythian-Adams
25 Education Forum: Current Challenges and Developments in the Teaching of History in Northern Ireland: To teach the history of Northern Ireland or not? - Carmel Gallagher
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The Historian 86: England Arise!
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Featured articles:
8 England Arise! The General Election of 1945 – Keith Laybourn (Read article)
16 The Last Duke of Lorraine – Richard Arnold Jones (Read article)
23 Thomas Muir and the 'Scottish Martyrs' of the 1790s – Harry Dickinson (Read article)
36 Cheshire Country Houses and the Rise of the Nouveaux Riches –...
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)
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Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting....
Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)
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Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)
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‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire
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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
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Legacies of the Cement Armada
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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
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The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia
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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...
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History Abridged: Language and the African continent
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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
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What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
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Alexander Collin examines the significance of cities within the Holy Roman Empire in early modern times. With a strong political identity of their own, cities were at the heart of the Empire’s economy and, also, centres of theological and social change.
If you have ever read a description of a...
What did it mean to be a city in early modern Germany?
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The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson
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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
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Real Lives: Robert and Thomas Gayer-Anderson
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Wendy Barnes describes the real lives of identical twins, Robert and Thomas Gayer-Anderson, who collected a vast quantity of paintings and art objects, much of which was donated to museums around the world. The twins’ final home, Little Hall, Lavenham is now a museum and the headquarters of The Suffolk...
Real Lives: Robert and Thomas Gayer-Anderson
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My Favourite History Place: Castle Hill, Huddersfield
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Alison Hramiak tempts us to visit Castle Hill, south of Huddersfield, to look for traces of our long dead ancestors, to contemplate the passing of the centuries on that site and to enjoy the lovely views.
It’s often the way that we ignore what’s geographically close to us when we visit...
My Favourite History Place: Castle Hill, Huddersfield
