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  • ‘Guilty pleasures’: Moral panics over commercial entertainment since 1830

      Historian article
    In 1866 the Select Committee on Theatrical Licenses and Regulations questioned Inspector Richard Reason: Col. Stuart: What is the class of people who go [to penny theatres]?[Police] Inspector Richard Reason: I should think there is a great number of the criminal class, and some of the children of the working...
    ‘Guilty pleasures’: Moral panics over commercial entertainment since 1830

  • Introduction to the Survive & Thrive Units

      Introduction
    What's the point of the four Survive and Thrive units?Survive:There are today many teacher-training routes into the teaching profession. The teacher-training year is always a difficult balancing act between gaining enough classroom experience and enough understanding of the theories that underpin the discipline's key skills. As a result, each teacher-training...
    Introduction to the Survive & Thrive Units

  • The Historian 148: Legacy of war

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article for free) 6 Blood and Iron: the violent birth of modern Germany – A nation forged in war – Katja Hoyer (Read article) 12 Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update – Tim Thornton (Read article) 16 Monty’s school: the benign side of Viscount...
    The Historian 148: Legacy of war

  • Film: Lenin and the birth of Soviet Russia

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Having changed the course of Russian society Lenin now needed to secure his Bolshevik survival. Unlike his predecessor he saw no need to continue with the Imperialist policies of a war in Europe. Territory could be sacrificed for control, but would promises and rhetoric be enough to govern among people...
    Film: Lenin and the birth of Soviet Russia

  • General HA Conference 2018 resources

      Workshop resources
    The resources in this section are from workshops presented for at the HA Annual Conference 2018. The conference took place in Stratford-upon-Avon on 18-19 May 2018. The HA Annual Conference is a unique opportunity to join the history community on a weekend of captivating history. In the General pathway you can enjoy...
    General HA Conference 2018 resources

  • History, music and law: commemorative cross-curricularity

      Teaching History article
    James Woodcock continues his theme from Teaching History 138 about the difference between superficial, thematic cross-curricularity and much more rigorous interdisciplinarity. His concern is to retain rather than compromise the integrity of the subject disciplines. Woodcock argues that interdisciplinary working adds value to learning only when the knowledge and the distinctive...
    History, music and law: commemorative cross-curricularity

  • The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa

      Classic Pamphlet
    The dissolution of colonial empires since the Second World War is a major theme of contemporary history, and one which will challenge historians for many years to come. There are still sharp disagreements as to how this change should be described. European scholars tend to use the term ‘decolonization' (at...
    The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa

  • Adam Smith

      Classic Pamphlet
    Adam Smith 1723-1790 Adam Smith was so pre-eminently one of the master minds of the eighteenth century and so obviously one of the dominating influences of the nineteenth, in his own country and in the world at large, that is somewhat surprising that we are so ill-informed regarding the details...
    Adam Smith

  • The Early Mediaeval State

      Classic Pamphlet
    In order to define the constitution of a state, theorists and historians still apply Aristotle's categories; monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. This method has obvious limitations; there can be no doubt that the formal sovereignty either of an individual or of a minority or a majority does not of itself suffice...
    The Early Mediaeval State

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2013

      HA Survey
    For the last four years the HA sends to all schools and colleges teaching students in the 11-18 age range a survey.  The survey was sent out during the second half of the spring term 2013. Responses were received from 557 history teachers working in different contexts including middle schools...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2013

  • History 328

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 97, Issue 328
    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 window or tab. Access the full edition online Editorial...
    History 328

  • Contribute an article to the History Education Research Journal

      Contribute
    The History Education Research Journal (HERJ) invites submission of articles on all aspects of theory, scholarship and research in history education. We publish general papers alongside those for special features, so please feel free to submit a paper at any time on any subject relevant to the journal. We especially welcome articles of...
    Contribute an article to the History Education Research Journal

  • French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?

      Historian article
    The year 1066 - the one universally remembered date in English history, so well-known that banks advise customers not to choose it as their PIN number - opened the country up to French influence in spectacular fashion. During the ‘long twelfth century' (up to King John's death in 1216) that...
    French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?

  • We Remember Rwanda

      Film
    As an IOE Beacon School, St John's explored how learning about the Holocaust can improve understanding about other genocides and help strengthen efforts towards genocide prevention. ‘We Remember Rwanda' One important outcome is the impact on students, aged 13-17, who - in the 20th anniversary year of the genocide in...
    We Remember Rwanda

  • Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge

      Article
    Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain's past and of the wider world First, this article considers the reasons why it is essential for children to develop a chronological framework. Next it considers ways in which this framework is necessary for the development of the time concepts set...
    Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge

  • The world in 1913: friendly societies

      Historian article
    Friendly societies were designed to help members to cope with the illness, death or unemployment of a household's breadwinner. Each month members, mostly men, paid into the society, often at a meeting in a pub and in return payments from the pooled funds were made to ill members and to...
    The world in 1913: friendly societies

  • Triumphs Show 150.2: Year 13 game for reaching substantiated judgements

      Teaching History feature
    Year 13 play a competitive game to help them arrive at strong and substantiated judgements. Year 13 were in the library again, sinking under tomes of weighty works on the German Reformation. James was feverishly rifling through a book on the ‘Reformation World' for something (anything!) to do with Luther's...
    Triumphs Show 150.2: Year 13 game for reaching substantiated judgements

  • Employment, employability and history

      Teaching History article
    Employment, employability and history: helping students to see the connection Five years ago, in Teaching History 132, Harris and Haydn drew attention to the fact that while the vast majority of Key Stage 3 students claimed to enjoy history and even to regard it as a useful subject, relatively few...
    Employment, employability and history

  • Obituaries: the first verdict in history

      Historian article
    Last year marked the deaths of two world-renowned historical figures - Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Their obituaries reflected the marked contrast in the way the pair were viewed. Mandela ended up by being universally admired, while Thatcher was both adored and despised in seemingly equal measure. Writer Nigel Starck...
    Obituaries: the first verdict in history

  • Revisiting chronological knowledge from before 1066

      Article
    Thinking about...the study of an aspect or theme in British history that revisits or extends pupils' chronological knowledge from before 1066Alf Wilkinson presents a personal exploration of how we might use this Key Stage 3 unit to help our students develop a  coherent understanding of history.
    Revisiting chronological knowledge from before 1066

  • Waking up to complexity

      Teaching History article
    Waking up to complexity: using Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers to challenge over-determined causal explanations Teaching student to construct causal argument is a staple of history teaching and, in this year, questions about the causes of the First World War are particularly pertinent and once again the public eye. Claire Holliss,...
    Waking up to complexity

  • The Journey to Icarie and Reunion: A Romance of Socialism on the Texas Frontier

      Historian article
    The viewer of the internationally popular television show Dallas was routinely treated to an aerial tour that skimmed across the open prairie over the distinctive skyscrapers across the fifty-yard line of Texas Stadium and up the manicured pastures of South Fork. This façade of larger-than-life Texana reflects an urban reality...
    The Journey to Icarie and Reunion: A Romance of Socialism on the Texas Frontier

  • Creativity in teaching and learning at the Geffrye Museum

      Article
    Learning and education has always been an essential and central part of the Geffrye museum's purpose. Twice winners of the highly prestigious Sandford Award for Heritage Education, most recently in 2012, our professional learning team works with a broad range of audiences to develop and deliver a wide variety of...
    Creativity in teaching and learning at the Geffrye Museum

  • IOE national research into pupils' thinking about the Holocaust

      Article
    A new research project promises to have a significant impact not only on our teaching about the Holocaust but also on our understanding of how young people make sense of the past. Surveying up to 10,000 secondary students across the country and conducting a range of thematic and case studies...
    IOE national research into pupils' thinking about the Holocaust

  • Taking tea with Frau von Papen

      Historian article
    The Weimar Republic in its last days as seen and remembered by a five-year-old English boy. A long-standing member of the Historical Association remembers an experience from eighty years ago. As Mrs Merkel is well aware, the fear of inflation is deeply embedded in the German folk memory. Eighty years...
    Taking tea with Frau von Papen