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ActiveHistory provides educational, award-winning interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, high-quality worksheets and detailed lesson plans for the school history classroom. All resources have been designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.
An ActiveHistory subscription provides everything you need to construct and deliver a History course from start to finish for the entire 11-18 age range!
These consist not just of lesson plans, worksheets and teacher notes, but also multimedia lectures and interactive games and historical simulations ideal for remote learning and self-study.
World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
Historiography
The following three lectures were originally delivered by Russel Tarr to students at the International School of Toulouse.
You may also wish to download the Essential Historiographical Terms handout.
1. What is History?
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A. Why is history so important to society?
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B. How is History produced?
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C. Is “Objective” History possible or even desirable?
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D. Questions and Tasks
2. Causation in History: Chaos, Free Will and Determinism
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A. Starter Activity: Some Quotes to Think About
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B. Introduction: Why do we ask Why?
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C. The Case of Billy Elliot: The Challenge of Pinning Down Causes
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D. The Approach of Historians to the Issue of Causation
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E. The Approach of Philosophers to the Issue of Causation
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F. A Practical Approach to Causation - Introduction
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G. A Practical Approach to Causation - Categorising Factors
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H. A Practical Approach to Causation - Linking Factors
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I. Conclusion: Some Closing Thoughts
3. The Purpose of History
Appendices
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