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      • What are commemorations?
        • Lesson 1: What is commemoration?
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        • Lesson 3: Was the Ulster Covenant important and why is the signing of it commemorated by sections of the NI community today?

Online lectures and articles

  • Northern Ireland Community Relations Council anniversaries has a series of online lectures from the series Decade of Anniversaries along with discussion papers and guidance from eminent historians of the period.
  • Decade of Centenaries Lecture videos – Lecture Series Remembering the Future on Youtube

Commemorations

  • Historians and the politics of commemoration
  • Ethical Remembering in a new Context
  • Remembering the Future NICRC 

Key History websites

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  • Teaching controversial & sensitive issues
  • Teaching controversial issues  
  • Teach Report: The Teaching of Emotive and Controversial History
  • Teaching Controversial issues where controversial issues really matter. Dr Alan McCully and Keith Barton in Teaching History 129 2007.
  • Military History from the streets Five Steps for Schools by Professor Richard Grayson
  • CCEA: A Level and GCSE History Specifications
  • Northern Ireland Curriculum:  For programmes of study and guidance

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