History teacher Dan Lyndon-Cohen responds to the latest proposals for the National Curriculum in History.
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Lincoln Again
Manisha Sinha on Spielberg’s mythic rather than historical Lincoln, and missed opportunities to uncover the complex history of emancipation.
East End Lives
John Rennie writes about the East London History website, whose brief is to cover the history of the East End of London, from when the Romans arrived to the present day
Mr Abbas Goes to New York?
In the wake of the UN General Assembly’s decision to make Palestine a non-member observer state, Laleh Khalili considers the Palestinian Authority’s strategy within a wider history of what it has meant to become member at the UN and whether that meaning has now changed
Secondary Modern
Michael Rosen and Emma-Louise Williams explain the background to their website, Sec Mod, which is collecting memories of education at secondary modern schools in Britain
Why it was Kicking off Then
Journalist and author Paul Mason shares his fascination with the “unruly women” of the Paris Commune
Searching for Histories of Black Women’s Service across the Seas in the Second World War
The histories of Black and minority ethnic women who served with the Allied Forces during the Second World War by Dr Jo Stanley
