Education

Peter Clements explains that addressing the question directly is the key to securing good grades.

In defending the study of history, Richard J Evans argues that the extreme exponents of Postmodernism are Emperors with No Clothes.

A profile of the issues raised by A level questions on this history topic.

Gareth Affleck identifies the points to discuss.

Gareth Affleck looks at beginnings, middles and ends.

The triumph of good guys over bad is still the popular picture of British history, invented by Whig historians in the nineteenth century. Liberty defeated tyranny and Protestants defeated Catholics in a predetermined victory that made Britain unique. Historical opponents of this inevitable triumph were sidelined as lost causes. Jeremy Black argues that history is more complex.

Lesley Hall looks at sexuality as a recent recruit to historical studies – and at more than a century of argument and evasion

Graham Darby looks at why things happen, and argues that short-term causes are paramount.  

Laurie Johnston explores the significance of public education in Cuba's efforts to forge a national identity in a period of US intervention.

Lesley Beaumont looks at how children's games were not just seen as pastimes but as active stimuli to learning and good citizenship in the world of Plato and Aristotle.