History 2014 Teachers' Conference

Dr Andrew Heath discusses the available online resources for history teachers. Andrew Heath joined the History Department in 2008. After growing up on the outskirts of Bristol, he read History from 1997 to 2001 at University College London, before receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Bristol University. Andrew's research interests lie primarily in the political, urban, and social history of the Nineteenth-Century United States. His thesis, which won the 2008 Urban History Association Prize for the best dissertation in Urban History, explores how imperial expansion, national consolidation, and economic development shaped the reconstruction of Philadelphia in the decades either side of the Civil War as citizens vied to make their city the main node between Europe and Asia: the London and Paris of America. He has also written on transatlantic working-class radicalism and monarchists in the Reconstruction-era U.S. Andrew won the Student Union Academic Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011-12 and 2012-13, and a Senate Award for Early Career teaching in 2013. Alongside running modules on nineteenth-century U.S. history, he lectures on Paths from Antiquity to Modernity and Cities.

In this talk, Roy Whittle OBE, Chair of GCE History Examiners AQA outlines the concerns with the current A-Level and details the responses and developments to these concerns. It is recommended that you download the accompanying PDF (found separately in this collection) in order to reference whilst watching this video. Roy Whittle read history at Cambridge University and taught and examined the subject for almost 40 years. He has been Chair of A level History examiners at AQA for 20 years and his last post in teaching was as a Sixth Form College Principal. He was awarded the OBE in 2004 for services to education.

Mary Vincent presents a talk on recent research into the historical period of the Spanish Civil War. It is recommended that you download the accompanying PDF (found separately in this collection) in order to reference whilst watching this video. Mary Vincent has been teaching at Sheffield since 1988. Her main research interests lie in the history of modern Spain, particularly in the period of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship (1931-75). An interest in the social basis of Franco's support, particularly that provided by the Catholic Church, led her to write Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic, (1996). An increasing interest in the history of gender led to various publications, including edited collections on Gender and History, (with Robert Shoemaker, 1998) and Gender and War c.1918-1949, (2001). She published Modern Spain 1833-2002: People and State (2007), a general history of the Spanish state that focuses on the persistence of political violence and the historical problem of state legitimacy in Spain. Mary is writing a book on religious violence in the Spanish Civil War. She is also currently Head of Department.

Dr Adrian Bingham presents this talk about recent research on the history of twentieth-century Britain (popular press and political culture). It is recommended that you download the accompanying PDF (found separately in this collection) in order to reference whilst watching this video. joined the History Department at Sheffield in September 2006. Before this he read history at Merton College, Oxford, and stayed there to study for his D.Phil. In 2002 Adrian took up a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary British History (CCBH), Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Adrian remained at the CCBH to hold a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Adrian's main research interests are in the political, social and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain. He has worked extensively on the national popular press in the decades after 1918, examining the ways in which newspapers both reflected and shaped attitudes to gender, sexuality and class. His first monograph explored press debates about femininity and masculinity in the inter-war period. Adrian's second book, Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-1978, explored the role of the press as a source of information and imagery about sex, morality and personal relationships. He is also interested in the history of press regulation, and conducted a project examining the Calcutt Report of 1990 and the establishment of the Press Complaints Commission. Beyond his work on the press, Adrian is interested in popular attitudes to politics; cultural hierarchies, particularly the category of the ‘middlebrow’; the circulation of knowledge about sex; and the social and cultural changes in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.

Spain 1936-1939: Recent Research on the Civil War - accompanying PDF

The new A-Level History - accompanying PDF

Simplicity, Spectacle and Scepticism - accompanying PDF