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  • Challenges facing The National Archives and the archives sector

      Public History Podcast
    Podcast of a second interview between Dr Andrew Foster from the Historical Association and member of The National Archives' Strategic Academic Stakeholder Forum and Oliver Morley, Chief Executive and Keeper, The National Archives, which took place on 6 December 2011. The interview covers the strategic challenges faced by The National...
    Challenges facing The National Archives and the archives sector

  • Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars

      Historian article
    Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars The war with France, which began in 1793, had moved to the Iberian Peninsula by 1808. This year is therefore the two-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of the Peninsular War campaigns. War on the Peninsula demanded huge resources of manpower in order to defeat...
    Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars

  • The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners

      Article
    Featured articles: 4 The Unpredictable Rise of the Duke of Wellington by Neville Thompson 9 The Peninsula War: A Review of recent literature by Charles Esdaile 13 The defence of Britain's Eastern Empire after World War One by John Fisher 18 Mining Communities without Mines by Lucy Russell 23 The...
    The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners

  • The Historian 19

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Remembering Australia, K.S. Inglis 10 Update: Anglo-Saxon England, Henry Loyn 12 Comment: Curiouser and Curiouser, Colin Richmond 13 Portfolio: Cabinets of Curiosities, R. W. Unwin 18 Historical Reconstruction, Peter Brears 19 Education Forum: The Lost Generation? George Bernard 20 Local History: Shall I buy a Computer? David Short
    The Historian 19

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

  • History's big picture in three dimensions

      Historian article
    More and more historians, from diverse political viewpoints, are now expressing concern at the fragmentation of history, especially in the schools curriculum. The fragmentation of the subject has followed upon the collapse of sundry Grand Narratives, such as the ‘March of Progress', which once swept all of history into a...
    History's big picture in three dimensions

  • The soldier in Later Medieval England

      Historian article
    Traditionally, the Middle Ages have been portrayed as the ‘Feudal Age', when men were given land in return for performance of unpaid military service. Whilst this may have formed the basis of the English military system in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, it was most certainly not the way armies...
    The soldier in Later Medieval England

  • Triumphs Show 130: Righting the Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    It was period 5 on a wet Wednesday afternoon deep into the winter term. Year 9 were even more difficult than usual. Being cooped up inside at lunch, without supervision, had not helped the situation. What was I going to do with this untamed bunch? Put on a trusted video?...
    Triumphs Show 130: Righting the Revolution

  • Polychronicon 146: Interpreting the history of 'big history'

      Teaching History feature
    In recent decades, a novel approach to history has emerged, called ‘big history', which provides an overview of all of human history, embedded within biological, geological and astronomical history covering the grandest sweep of time and space, from the beginning of the universe to life on Earth here and now....
    Polychronicon 146: Interpreting the history of 'big history'

  • History through Drama, A Teachers' Guide - Revisited

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is now some seventeen years since the publication of our original pamphlet by the Historical Association [HA] as part of the Teaching of History Series (Wilson and Woodhouse, 1990). This article offers a personal review...
    History through Drama, A Teachers' Guide - Revisited

  • Drama and history: a theory for learning

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. When I visit primary schools these days it heartens me to see how often drama is used in classroom teaching. Looking back over my own career, drama and role play have always been...
    Drama and history: a theory for learning

  • An introduction to ‘History’, the journal of the HA

      Information
    History is the Journal of the Historical Association. First published in 1912, History has been a leader in its field ever since. It is unique in its range and variety, packing its pages with stimulating articles, extensive book reviews, and editorial notes. History balances its broad chronological coverage with a...
    An introduction to ‘History’, the journal of the HA

  • The Historian 18

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Glorious Revolution in England after 300 years, K.H.D. Haley 10 Education Forum: History in Adult Education 11 Record Linkage: Among My Souvenirs, Roger Whiting 14 Update: Spain: the centuries of greatness and decline, I.A.A. Thompson 17 Portfolio: Alice in the Middle Ages, Patrick Abbott
    The Historian 18

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Old Wine, New Bottles : National Identity, Citizenship and the History Curriculum for the 21st Century   Articles Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: Re-Shaping Our Pasts. The Influence of Primary School Teachers' Knowledge and Understanding of History on Curriculum Planning and Implementation.     Laura Capita,...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1

  • The Historian 65: Cooling Memories

      Article
    Featured articles: 4 From Ashes to Icon: The creation of the National Botanic Garden of Wales - Charles Stirton (Read article) 10 Wanted, The elusive Charlie Peace: A Sheffield killer of the 1870s as popular hero - Dr John Springhall (Read article) 17 Cooling memories: Why we still remember Scott...
    The Historian 65: Cooling Memories

  • Polychronicon 116: The Roman Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' examines the study...
    Polychronicon 116: The Roman Empire

  • Out and about in Martinsthorpe: a walk in the country

      Historian feature
    History is nothing if not an exercise in informed imagination. On a country walk in Rutland arranged by a group of (non-historian) friends, I noted that the Ordnance Survey map showed our planned route, following a ridge of high ground separating the valleys of the meandering Gwash and Chater rivers,...
    Out and about in Martinsthorpe: a walk in the country

  • Polychronicon 145: Interpreting the history of the modern prison

      Teaching History feature
    On the morning of Sunday 24 January 1932 convicts paraded in the exercise yards at Dartmoor Convict Prison in Devon. Suddenly, inmates began to break ranks, encouraging others to do likewise. Some prisoners were shepherded into cell blocks by officers but control mechanisms quickly collapsed and the remaining inmates had...
    Polychronicon 145: Interpreting the history of the modern prison

  • Technology and Innovation in the Medieval Near East

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent University) discusses the role the Near East played in the development and transmission of technology and innovation during the medieval period. Dr Morton looks examines the significance of gunpowder, the navigational compass and maritime chart, and also how the changing civilisations of the medieval Near East...
    Technology and Innovation in the Medieval Near East

  • The Historian 95: An American showman

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: The 2007 Medlicott Medal Lecture: What kind of history should school history be? Chris Culpin (Read article) P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for the family - John Springhall (Read Article) Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign - Trevor Fisher (Read Article) Presenting Naseby: Documents, terrain, findings and...
    The Historian 95: An American showman

  • Why did the Dome fail?

      Historian article
    History gives us a basis for understanding the groups which people belong to, the countries people live in and the institutions which govern them. It provides a sense of continuity and identity. However, on 31 December 1999 the Queen and Prime Minister opened an exhibition which made no reference to...
    Why did the Dome fail?

  • The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades

      Classic Pamphlet
    This resource is a pamphlet titled ‘The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades’ and written by R. J. H. Jenkins in 1953. As such, some of the scholarship has been updated since then, although it can provide useful historiography. It is not strange that there should in recent...
    The Byzantine Empire on the Eve of the Crusades

  • Ancient Egypt - The Middle Kingdom (2181-1650 BC)

      Podcast
    In this podcast Professor Emeritus John Baines, University of Oxford, provides an introduction to the First Intermediate Period (c. 2181–1650 BC) which followed the decline of the Old Kingdom, and discusses the history of Egypt's Middle Kingdom.  The Middle Kingdom lasted from approximately 2040 to 1700 BC, stretching from the...
    Ancient Egypt - The Middle Kingdom (2181-1650 BC)

  • Primary history in the 21st century: Back to the past?

      Primary History article
    During my teaching of history I have been amazed by the asinine questions that children and adults ask about the subject matter. For example, a child once asked, ‘Sir, if Queen Cleopatra hadn't been bitten by the asp would she still be alive today?'. This question suggests that despite comprehensive...
    Primary history in the 21st century: Back to the past?

  • Supporting initial teacher trainees to think about chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. As a teacher trainer I am very conscious that many prospective primary teachers' formal history education stops at the age of 14. As a consequence their knowledge and understanding of history and sense...
    Supporting initial teacher trainees to think about chronology