The Importance of Studying the Past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494212 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Hunt (Creative Commons, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 258-267 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbr055 |
| OpenAlex | W2100716836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
‘It can’t be important because we don’t spend much time on it.’ (Year 8 student)1 My history education began in dramatic fashion. In a rather deep hole, in a curve of the Medlock and surrounded on all four sides by tall factories and high embankments, covered with buildings, stand two groups of about 200 cottages, built chiefly back to back, in which live about 4,000 human beings, most of them Irish. The cottages are old, dirty, and of the smallest sort, the streets uneven, fallen into ruts and in part without drains or pavement; masses of refuse, offal and sickening filth lie among standing pools in all directions ... This was Friedrich Engels's depiction of industrializing Manchester in his 1844 classic, The Condition of the Working Class in England. And it was the text which my inspirational history teacher, Mr Mackintosh, decided it would be fun for a class of eleven-year-olds to study. So, week by week, we travelled through the mills, workhouses and lodging rooms of urbanizing England; the accounts of broken limbs, effluent-bubbling streams, smog-laden skies and overcrowded tenements. We met typhus-ridden Irish immigrants and boorish, philistine factory owners.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Depiction · Factory (object-oriented programming) · Irish · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Working class · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |