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  • Fascist behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain

      Historian article
    In the spring and early summer of 1940, the British government carried out a programme of mass internment without trial. On 11 May, the first of thousands of ‘enemy aliens' were interned. Many of these internees were refugees from Nazi Germany, often Jews who had fled Germany in fear of...
    Fascist behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain

  • British History Online - Digital Resources

      Article
    British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the...
    British History Online - Digital Resources

  • Investigating Victorian mining disasters

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: these free resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum.  In this series of lessons about two mining disasters, I integrated learning in history, literacy and ICT. As the children are an able group, I intended to challenge them to explore primary written sources, to identify differences between them, to...
    Investigating Victorian mining disasters

  • Diversifying the curriculum: one department’s holistic approach

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Theo Woods shares the experience of one history department as they embarked on a substantial process of curriculum review and development. The department sought to address concerns that the range of history taught in their school, across the full seven years of students’ secondary experience, was too ‘traditional,...
    Diversifying the curriculum: one department’s holistic approach

  • Real Lives: Henry Allingham and the First World War

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Henry Allingham and the First World War

  • The Wolfson History Prize shortlist 2023

      5th September 2023
    Running on a different timetable to previous years, the Wolfson History Prize shortlist has now been announced. The Prize is an important contributor to marking the significance of historical scholarship and writer. The winner will be announced in November. Bringing new stories from history to light, and challenging readers to...
    The Wolfson History Prize shortlist 2023

  • Portsmouth Branch History

      Branch History
    See the current Portsmouth Branch programme of events Portsmouth's Branch "Minutes Book No. 2" of the years 1946 -1981 is in the city Record Office. It records a Jubilee Dinner held in 1974: so the Branch was founded in 1924. Sadly, no "Minutes Book No. 1" has come to light....
    Portsmouth Branch History

  • Nutshell 121

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' concentrates on primary history.
    Nutshell 121

  • Move Me On 129: Feels out of his depth teaching controversial issues

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Ajmal Khan has recently started his second school placement. Although he is very pleased to be working now in an ethnically diverse urban school (after a first placement in a largely white suburban setting), he is feeling somewhat overawed at the prospect of teaching Year 9 about...
    Move Me On 129: Feels out of his depth teaching controversial issues

  • Queen Anne

      18th Century British History
    In this podcast Lady Anne Somerset looks at the life, reputation and legacy of Queen Anne – the last of the Stuart monarchs, and the first sovereign of Great Britain. Anne was born on 6 February 1665 in London, the second daughter of James, Duke of York, brother of Charles II. Like many...
    Queen Anne

  • Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movement

      Lesson Plan
    The Sumerian mystery lesson is based on a story about what people found in one of the royal tombs of Ur dating from about 4000 years ago. (This was in ancient Mesopotamia, near what we now call the Persian Gulf.) (These resources are attached below) The story is full of...
    Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movement

  • 11 Ways to Use Multimedia Videos in History Lessons

      Article
    Dan Moorhouse provides: 11 ways to use multimedia videos in lessons: 1)      To develop an understanding of the ways in which different interpretations of events are formed. For example, pupils may study Cromwell and his times and may then be asked to consider how and for what purpose a particular interpretation...
    11 Ways to Use Multimedia Videos in History Lessons

  • Houses: Artefacts from the past (KS1)

      Lesson Plans
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. In these lessons we investigated real objects from late Victorian times. The aim was to enable the children to become more independent in their learning and to extend their literacy. The two lessons described formed part of a Year 1 topic...
    Houses: Artefacts from the past (KS1)

  • India in 1914

      Historian article
    Rather as Queen Victoria was never as ‘Victorian' as we tend to assume, so British India in the years leading up to 1914 does not present the cliched spectacle of colonists in pith helmets and shorts lording it over subservient natives that we might assume. Certainly that sort of relationship...
    India in 1914

  • Mughal moments made memorable by Movie Maker

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rosalind Stirzaker has introduced some fascinating topics at Key Stage 3. Her pupils, living in Dubai, have the opportunity to study the Islamic Empire, the Mughal Empire and Mespotamia as well as many of the...
    Mughal moments made memorable by Movie Maker

  • Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion.

      Virtual Branch Film
    The Mongol invasions into the Near East had a devastating effect upon many societies, sultanates, empires and kingdoms. For decades, wave after wave of armies swept across the area, defeating every army sent against them and utterly reshaping the area’s complex political ecosystem. Some powers fell in battle; some submitted...
    Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion.

  • What's History got to do with me? Hooking a range of learners into History

      E-CPD
    *This is a fascinating unit containing lots of useful and relevant information. It was clearly ahead of its time, produced in 2006 and many of the suggestions and questions posed by Haydn, Kitson and Lomas are still current today. There is much good work going on in History classrooms at...
    What's History got to do with me? Hooking a range of learners into History

  • Story-telling and discussion: KS1 exemplar: Columbus the explorer

      Short Lesson Exemplar
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Setting the scene: what is an explorer? This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject...
    Story-telling and discussion: KS1 exemplar: Columbus the explorer

  • The International Journal Volume 13, Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial Croatia: Achieving The Objectives Of The European Dimension Through History: An Analysis Of Croatian And Bosnian-Herzegovinian Fourth Grade Gymnasium History Textbooks - Rona Bušljeta, University of Zagreb Slovenia Learning from History Textbooks - is it challenging for gifted students. An International Comparative Analysis of Questions and Tasks - Mojca...
    The International Journal Volume 13, Number 1

  • Establishing a University-based HA Branch

      Article
    The following case study is based on my own experience of establishing the City of Lincoln HA branch, which is based at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, where I am a Senior Lecturer in History. The branch launched at the university on Wednesday 19th February 2014. Members of the BGU...
    Establishing a University-based HA Branch

  • Teaching History 54

      Journal
    Editorial 2 Historical Association News 3 Articles: Computers in Secondary School History Teaching: an HMI view - Carole Baker and lain Paterson 7 Supporting the Future - MESU and the History Teacher - Sue Bennett 10 An Introduction to Computers in the History Classroom - John Simkin 12 GCSE Course...
    Teaching History 54

  • The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Contributors to this journal have long recognised that success in public examinations is at least partly achieved by carefully teaching in Key Stage 3. A critical component of A-Level is that students who wish to...
    The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

  • Canterbury Branch History

      Branch History
    Although active between the wars, the Canterbury Branch had faded into oblivion by the 1960s.The arrival of the University of Kent at Canterbury brought about the Branch's revival in 1971-1972, led by Peter Roberts, Grayson Ditchfield and Donald Read, and a programme was arranged for 1972 -3.   Among those on...
    Canterbury Branch History

  • Cathars and Castles in Medieval France

      Historian article
    Almost exactly 800 years ago, in September 1213, a decisive battle was fought at Muret, about ten miles south-west of Toulouse. King Peter II of Aragon, fighting with southern allies from Toulouse and elsewhere, faced an army largely made up of northern French crusaders who had invaded the region at the...
    Cathars and Castles in Medieval France

  • Teaching History 53

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Multiculturalism and the Lower School History Syllabus: Towards a Practical Approach. - Paul Goalen 8 Using Audio-Visual Media with Slow Learners: A New Approach in History - Keith Hodgkinson 17 New History and Media Education - Derek McKiernan 20 Local History Studies in the Classroom...
    Teaching History 53