This is the final entry in a short series of posts about the Historical Association conference, held in Chester in May 2019. After the break, it was time for me to reprise my lecture from the Historical Association’s ‘Teaching the Tudors’ CPD day in York, ‘A History of the Reformation in 5 Ballads’. It was…

This is the third in a short series of posts about the Historical Association conference, held in Chester in May 2019. The opening session on Friday morning was a keynote talk from Dr Fern Riddell called ‘Uncomfortable Histories:  From sex to the suffragettes’.  Considering that the audience was mainly made up of teachers, Dr Riddell’s…

This is the second in a short series of posts about the Historical Association Conference 2019, held in Chester in May. The first general pathway session that I attended was given by Dr Tim Grady on ‘German Jews, the First World War and its Devastating Aftermath’.  Gorlitz War Memorial is illustrative of German Jewish history…