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Helping history teachers update their subject knowledge

This regular feature in Teaching History (TH) helps school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretations. (It was formerly titled 'Polychronicon', after a 14th-century chronicle that brought together the knowledge of its age). 

Title/topic

Author

TH issue

Year

Anti-alienism in Britain c.1880–1925

Henry Holborn

196

2024

Immigration in French history

Daniel A. Gordon

195

2024

Climate history

Amanda Power

194

2024

Youth culture

Marcus Collins

193

2024

The history of Australia

Anna Clark

191

2023

Gender and sexuality

Gabrielle Storey

191

2023

The consequences of the industrial revolution

Emma Griffin

190

2023

Royal Studies

Gabrielle Storey

189

2022

The impact of the English Reformation

Laura Sangha

188

2022

Chinese history

Rana Mitter

187

2022

Histories of education – and society

Peter Mandler

186

2022

Expanding the reach of the American Revolution

Thomas Rodgers

185

2021

The British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

Sujit Sivasundaram

184

2021

The impact of the British Empire on Britain

Liam Liburd

183

2021

Medieval science and medicine

Seb Falk

182

2021

African history in the precolonial period?

Toby Green

181

2020

The long-term impact of the Black Death on English towns

Claire Kennan

180

2020

Migration and empire

Lauren Working

179

2020

Decolonisation and the British Empire

Edward Webb

178

2020

The New Deal in American History

Tony Badger

177

2019

Peterloo 1819-2019

Robert Poole

176

2019

Paris 1919  a century on

David Reynolds

175

2019

Votes for Women

Tara Morton

174

2019

From American Indians to Native Americans

Brett J Duffek

173

2018

Health, illness and medicine in the Middle Ages

Catherine Rider

172

2018

Policing and role of Gestapo in Nazi Germany

Claire M. Hubbard-Hall

171

2018

The Becket Dispute

Helen Birkett

170

2018

Herodotus

Edith Hall

169

2017

Interwar Internationalisms: League of Nations

Aaron Watts

168

2017

Richard Nixon

Tony McConnell

167

2017

The 'new' historiography of the Cold War

Aaron Watts

166

2017

1917 Revolutions: 100 Years On

Sarah Badcock

165

2016

End of the Cold War

David Reynolds

164

2016

Britain and Europe Debate

Brendan Simms

163

2016

The May 1968 events in France

Daniel A Gordon

162

2016

John Lilburne

Michael Braddick

161

2015

"The Birth of a Nation" (film)

Jenny Barrett

160

2015

Magna Carta

Justin Champion

159

2015

Napoleon

Malcolm Crook

158

2015

Police-Public Relations in Modern England

David Churchill

157

2014

Transnational History of the First World War

Jay Winter

156

2014

Origins of the First World War

Peter Donaldson

155

2014

Elizabeth I

Jackie Eales

154

2014

Liberation: The End of the Holocaust?

Dan Stone

153

2013

The workhouse

Alannah Tompkins

152

2013

The Revolution of 1688

Ted Vallance

151

2013

The French Revolution

David Andress

150

2013

The Persian Wars

Tom Harrison

149

2012

Wars of the Roses

John Watts

148

2012

The Pendle Witch Trial of 1612

Robert Poole

147

2012

The History of "Big History"

Fred Spier

146

2012

History of the Modern Prison

Alyson Brown

145

2011

1930s Britain

Roger Spalding

144

2011

The Balfour Declaration

James Renton

143

2011

'Instructive Reversals': re-interpreting the 1857 events in Northern India

Arthur Chapman

142

2011

Adolf Eichmann

David Cesarani

141

2010

Why did the Cold War end?

Tony McConnell

140

2010

Civic denouncer: the lives of Pavlik Morozov

Catriona Kelly

139

2010

US Civil Rights Movement

Stephen Tuck

138

2010

The 1960s-70s 'space age'

Robert Poole

137

2009

The Beatles

Marcus Collins

136

2009

Postmodern Holocaust Historiography: 
Saul Friedlander's 'The Years of Extermination'

Wulf Kansteiner

135

2009

The Great War and Cultural History

Peter Donaldson

134

2009

Crusader States in the Levant

Jonathan Riley-Smith

133

2008

Roman Emperors

Tony McConnell

132

2008

Leisure Time

Mike Huggins

131

2008

Dental, Transcendental, Regimental: Making Mangal Pandey

Arthur Chapman

130

2008

Peterloo

Robert Poole

129

2007

Death of Captain Cook

Peter Claus

128

2007

The Crusades

Jonathan Riley-Smith

127

2007

Stonehenge

Arthur Chapman

126

2007

Norman Conquest

Tony McConnell

125

2006

Cold War

Tony McConnell

124

2006

Gladstone and Disraeli

Nick Poyntz

123

2006

Gunpowder Plot

Tony McConnell

122

2006

American Revolution

Michelle Henley

121

2005

The past as analogy in popular music

Tony McConnell

120

2005

World War II and Popular Culture

Nick Poyntz

119

2005

Henry VII

Ian Dawson

118

2005

Douglas Haig

John D Clare

117

2004

The Eternal City: The Roman Past throughout the Ages

Rosie Gill

116

2004

Historians and the Holocaust: Racism, Hatred and the Third Reich

Tony McConnell

115

2004

Oliver Cromwell

Nick Poyntz

114

2004

Interpreting the Interpreters: Slavery in Twentieth-Century America

Tony McConnell

113

2003

The Angevin Empire

Tony McConnell

112

2003



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