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Monday 31 May 2010

Myths about migration: historical and philosophical perspectives by Melissa Lane (History & Policy)

Myths about migration: historical and philosophical perspectives

by Melissa Lane

from History & Policy: connecting the study of history to today.

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Saturday 29 May 2010

The Tudors - Elizabeth and Cecil

Elizabeth and Cecil

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for undergraduate students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

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Monday 24 May 2010

Genocide: twentieth-century warnings for the twenty-first century by Lisa Pine, History & Policy

Genocide: twentieth-century warnings for the twenty-first century

by Lisa Pine

from History & Policy: connecting the study of history to to day.

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Saturday 22 May 2010

The Tudors - "A Mid-Tudor Crisis?" - The Agenda For Debate

"A Mid-Tudor Crisis?" - The Agenda For Debate

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for AS/A2-level students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

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Wednesday 19 May 2010

What next for Gordon Brown? What Happens to former Prime Ministers?

What next for Gordon Brown?

by Kevin Theakston for History & Policy

Contemporary journalists regularly assert that British ex-prime ministers never go on to better things; their best times are behind them. They are wrong.
There may not be a clear or established role for former British prime ministers, but Gordon Brown can be reassured that they have done plenty of worthwhile, interesting and significant things in the years after they have left Number 10.

He may also be reassured that success or failure while in Number 10 does not predict what may come afterwards. Some prime ministers with short and unsuccessful stints in office have gone on to have lengthy and successful post-Number 10 careers.
What they do after they leave office has always depended on their personal choices and on circumstances, including the reactions and attitudes of still-active politicians and of political parties to the former political and governmental leader.
From the 18th century onwards fourteen prime ministers have 'come back' and served in the governments of later administrations and under other prime ministers - over a quarter of our prime ministers.
This role seems an unlikely one for Brown, who has said that he does not want to take up lucrative business positions and would prefer to do charity or voluntary sector work.

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Monday 17 May 2010

Holocaust Memorial Day

The HMD education website contains free resources for schools and colleges.  Each year there is a new theme for HMD and the resources are updated to reflect this.  There are case studies, lesson plans covering all age groups and a wide variety of curriculum areas, assemblies, activities and ideas for discussion.  The resources are written as a guide for teachers but GCSE and Post 16 students should also find them helpful.  http://education.hmd.org.uk

HMD also has a main website which contains a variety of resources on the Holocaust and more recent genocides, including survivor stories, podcasts, our short films, poetry, images and documents.  A popular area of the site is our book group section, where we suggest titles and offer questions for discussion for members of school and community reading groups  http://www.hmd.org.uk

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place annually on the 27th January, the date of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the largest Nazi Concentration Camp.  On this day, the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution are remembered and honoured as well as those from subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and during the ongoing atrocities in Darfur.

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Doomed Soldiers: Polish Armed Underground Resistance During & After WWII


Doomed Soldiers

A non-proft, all-volunteer project dedicated to the preservation of the history of the fallen Democratic Underground Soldiers from the Polish Home Army (AK), Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (NSZ), WiN, ROAK, and other Patriotic Armed Underground organizations who gave their lives fighting Nazi and Communist occupiers during and after II World War.

A fascinating site that continues to develop the historical record but also uses that history in support of "lustration" (the policy of limiting the participation of former communists, and especially informants of the communist secret police in the successor governments or even in civil service positions.). 

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Iraq, past, present and future: a thoroughly-modern mandate? by Beverley Milton-Edwards (History & Policy)

Iraq, past, present and future: a thoroughly-modern mandate?

by Beverley Milton-Edwards

from History & Policy: connecting the study of history to today.

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Saturday 15 May 2010

The Tudors - Aims and Successes of Henry VII's Foreign Policy

Aims and Successes of Henry VII's Foreign Policy

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for AS/A2-level students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

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Thursday 13 May 2010

Britain and Europe: CCBH Witness Seminar

Britain and Europe

from The Witness Seminars by the Centre for Contemporary British History.

Requires free registration

"What is a witness seminar?

Since its founding in 1986, the Institute of Contemporary British History (ICBH), now known as the Centre for Contemporary British History, has been uniquely associated with the production of 'witness seminars' on events or developments which have taken place within the bounds of living memory.

These exercises in oral history involve asking key participants to meet around the seminar table to discuss and debate the issues surrounding the chosen topic as they remember them. Witness seminars thus operate as group interviews, chaired by a senior academic, which are taped and transcribed primarily for the use of researchers.

The CCBH witness seminars are widely regarded by contemporary historians and social scientists as among the most useful and innovative forms of oral history. They often prove to be of more value than one-on-one interviews because of the interaction between witnesses stimulated during these discussions. They have been adopted by other institutions, both in Britain and abroad, and the CCBH has regularly collaborated with scholars from other institutions in planning and hosting witness seminars of particular relevance to their work."
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Monday 10 May 2010

Trade unions: a foundation of political pluralism? by Alastair J. Reid (History & Policy)

Trade unions: a foundation of political pluralism?

by Alastair J. Reid

from History & Policy: connecting the study of history to today.
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Sunday 9 May 2010

Introducing the Classical world - OpenLearn - The Open University

Introducing the Classical world - OpenLearn - The Open University

How do we learn about the world of the ancient Romans and Greeks? This unit will provide you with an insight into the Classical world by introducing you to the various sources of information used by scholars to draw together an image of this ...

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Saturday 8 May 2010

The Tudors - Henry VII: Founder of Stability or Incompetent Monarch?

Henry VII: Founder of Stability or Incompetent Monarch?

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for AS/A2-level students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

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Friday 7 May 2010

Podcasts of Military History seminars | Institute of Historical Research

Podcasts of Military History seminars | Institute of Historical Research

Military History seminar podcast 2010-04-27

The Waffen-SS - what's left? The present state of research: challenges, sources and approaches
Dr Niels Bo Paulson (Centre for Military History, Royal Danish Defence College)


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Thursday 6 May 2010

Voices on Antisemitism

Voices on Antisemitism

From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Voices on Antisemitism features a broad range of perspectives about antisemitism and hatred today. Subscribe to Voices on Antisemitism as a podcast or listen to individual programs online.

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