We hope you are as excited about our Autumn conference as we are! Below is the programme, and you can buy tickets immediately by using Eventbrite here.
09.30-9.55 Registration, History Fayre
Tea & coffee available.
10.00- 10.10 Welcome, Presentation of Awards
Chris MacKay, SATH President.
10.20- 11.20 Key note speaker – Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd 1917
Helen Rappaport
Helen is the bestselling author of a number of books on British and Russian History. They include:
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses, Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs, and Conspirator: Lenin in Exile the Making of a Revolutionary.
Helen has also written about Queen Victoria and was a consultant on the ITV series. She was also responsible for the discovery of the only known painting of Mary Seacole.
http://www.helenrappaport.com
11.20- 11.40 Interval
Tea & coffee available.
11.40- 11.50 The BGE & Benchmarks – An overview
Lynne Robertson, Education Scotland
11.50- 12.00 A new Carnegie Resource
Nora Rundell Chief Executive Carnegie Dunfermline & Hero Fund Trusts
12.00- 12.30 Course content workshops (A)
This session will deal with key areas of content and historiography, and will be repeated in the afternoon. Please mark your choices as A1 and A2 (reserve), and then B1 and B2 for the afternoon session.
- This Accursed Trade – Runaway Slaves in Britain
Professor Simon Newman & Nelson Mundell, University of Glasgow - The German Army in the Third Reich
Dr Ben H Shepherd, Caledonian University - The BGE – an example
Forres Academy - Poppy Scotland
Derek Patrick, Derek will outline approaches that can be used in the teaching of the Great War - SQA Assessment Update for N5 and Higher Q&A
Denise Dunlop, an opportunity to ask questions about the changes to N5 course assessment - The BGE & Benchmarks
Lynne Robertson, an opportunity to engage with Lynne and discuss approaches to BGE
12.30- 13.30 Networking Lunch and History Fayre
13.30- 14.30 The Suffragettes
Martin Pugh
Martin graduated in modern history and politics in 1969 and then spent the years 1969-71 on Voluntary Service Overseas as lecturer in European history at the Aligarh Muslim University in India. After returning to Britain he completed research for his Ph.D. on ‘The background to the 1918 Representation of the People Act’ at Bristol University and the Institute of Historical Research, London University, from 1971 to 1974.
He has published a number of books, which include:
The Making of Modern British Politics, 1867-1945, The Tories and the People, 1880-1935, Lloyd George, Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914-1959, The March of the Women: a revisionist analysis of the campaign for women’s suffrage, 1866-1914, The Pankhursts and “We Danced All Night”: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars
http://martindpugh.com/
14.30- 15.00 Course content workshops (B)
This session will deal with key areas of content and historiography, and will be repeated in the afternoon. Please mark your choices as A1 and A2 (reserve), and then B1 and B2 for the afternoon session.
- This Accursed Trade – Runaway Slaves in Britain
Professor Simon Newman & Nelson Mundell, University of Glasgow - The German Army in the Third Reich
Dr Ben H Shepherd, Caledonian University - The BGE – an example
Forres Academy - Poppy Scotland
Derek Patrick, Derek will outline approaches that can be used in the teaching of the Great War - SQA Assessment Update for N5 and Higher Q&A
Denise Dunlop, an opportunity to ask questions about the changes to N5 course assessment - The BGE & Benchmarks
Lynne Robertson, an opportunity to engage with Lynne and discuss approaches to BGE
15.00 Plenary and close
Chris MacKay, SATH President
Email : cm@hsog.co.uk