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SATH Year Book – Volume 11 – 1997 � HISTORY TEACHING REVIEW S.A.T.H. � YEARBOOK M. Dalad1e.r- ot Ft-anct: fa\lOt..H"t.d �rolion '"sofar ac.. ·,t �ve o'!hu- nation!> "The opporWn'il'y � � sacritces tor Fr'ance. (��' l¼E" CQl.{FER£NCE" NEl-l ( '-- �D)OUllMED, �E" �L BrlNG. ._,I NEft>E'O Foll A Q)HF'ER_£1'1CE" '--' Of AME�ICAfJ� To DECH)£ W!-10 I{.\� 1H.E"1R �LIC'f, If /t,Nt- � .<, -.,-,,7l a-, N<un.lli ot G<nnony litvil"IOtf of Ru:s:ssa 5a.d. 1'-iata.II "1e Cap.talt$1 UJC)IJid co-opel"atc. ;t CJUYbod.'f :Sysiem net.ded wJaS a �Kk of' dynamite.. Jr wa-. would.!I- G<nnany _.,11,;"<'l· felt11-t.u hL W1':i, f"ryl� io -tum 11-te occa.s,on info an Economic Confere,,ce and he wa'i. vo!c:d no8"1tlem•n. 9RILLIANT �OCESS 01"ll\E' COMS:!REHCI' $0 M"'-•----------- (Co11yr,9hl Ill 11/1 couu(ric1.) VOLUME 11 1997 THE YEAR BOOK OF THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF HISTORY HISTORY TEACHING REVIEW YEARBOOK EDITOR: ANDREW HUNT VOLUME II 1997 Biographical Notes on the contributors Editorial William Shakespeare. the Wars of the Roses and Richard III Keith Dockray The Scottish Women's Suffrage Movement Elspeth King The Scottish Trade Union Movement c.1850 to 1914 Dr William Kenefick A 'Fine Harvest'?- Women's Achievements since the Vote was Won Esther Breitenbach Interpreting the Weimar Republic Dr Jeremy Leaman Britain and the Great Depression Dr Patricia Clavin Reviews H. T.R. YEAR BOOK is the Journal of the Scottish Association of Teachers of History. Contributions, editorial correspondenceand books for review should be sent to the Editor, Andrew Hunt, 35 Carrongrove Avenue, Carron, Falkirk FK2 8NG. Correspondence about subscriptions should be sent to Gillian Pollock, History Department, Eastwood High School, Capelrig Road, Newton Mearns, Glasgow. The publication of an article in H. T.R. Year Book does not imply S.A.T.H. 's official approval of the opinions expressed therein. Cover illustration: 'TheBrilliant Success of the ConferenceSo Far', by DavidLow, Evening Standard,June 1933. The cartoon illustrates the failure of international co-opt!rative effortsto tackle the Great Depression. Copyright © Evening Standard/Soloand the imageis reproduced by permissionof the British Library. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Keith Dockray studied at the University of Bristol in the 1960s, undertook postgraduate research under the supervision of Charles Ross, and taught at Huddersfield Polytechnic/University from 1972 to 1994. Now back in Bristolas a freelancewriter and lecturer (teaching part-timefor Bristol University, the University of the West of England, University of Wales College, Newport, and the Open University), he is the author of RichardIll: A Reader in Hislory ( 1988) and a range of articleson fifteenth-century England. He is currently working on the early years of Edward IV, Victorian historians and the Wars of the Roses and literary sources forYorkshire and the Civil War. Elspeth King trained as a museum curator, and worked at the People's Palace, Glasgow, and Dunfermline's Abbot House. She is now Director of the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. All of her publications are in the field of material culture; the most recent is An Jn1roduc1ion10 Scotland'sLibera/or - the Life and Legacy of William Wallace /297-/997 which accompanies the exhibition of that name. Dr William Kenefick is lecturing in Modem Scottish History at the University of Dundee. He specialises in Scottish social and economic history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Scottish labour history and the history of British portsand dock labour. He is a council member forthe Economic and Social History Society of Scotland and a member of the editorial board of the Scottish Labour History Society. His publications include Ardrossan: lhe Key 10 1he Clyde (1993), The Roois of Red Clydeside /9/0-/9/4? (co-editor, 1996) and 'Dock Labour and the Neglect of the port Glasgow', Scollish Labour Hislory Journal, 31, 1996. He has recently submitted an article, 'The Irish and dock labour at Glasgow', forthe Irish Studies Review, and a 'Port Reporton Glasgow' forthe ln1emational Review of Social History. He is currently working on his book, Rebellious and Conlrary: The Glasgow Dockers 1853 10 /932 (Tuckwell Press) due for publication in 1998. Esther Breitenbach is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy in the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles and reports on the position of women in Scotland, both contemporary and historical, and is co-editor, with Eleanor Gordon of The World is Ill-divided: Women's Work in Sco1land in 1he Nineteenlh and Early Twen1ie1h Cenluries, (1990, Edinburgh University Press), and Out of Bounds: Women in Scollish Society /800-1945 (1992, EdinburghUniversity Press). She has also contributed to the annual Gender Audit, published hy the Scottish women's organisation, Engender, since it began in 1993. Jeremy Leaman is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at Loughborough University. He is the author of The Polilical Economy of Wesl Gennany 1945-1985 and of numerous chapters and articles on Germany in the twentieth century. He is currently working on a study of the German Federal Bank and on a longer project coveringthe political economy of Germany in the inter-war years. Dr Patricia Clavin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Keele. She is author of The Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Gennan}; France and the United States, 1931-36 (Macmillan, 1995) and, with Asa Briggs, Modem Europe, 1789-/989 (Longman, 1996). She has published various articles on international economic relations in the inter-war period and is currentlycompleting a history of Europein the Great Depression, 1929-39 to be published by Macmillan in 1998. She is also, in collaboration with scholars in Munich and Turin, engaged in a comparative study of the public roles of historians in society in the firsthalf of the twentieth century. This project has been funded by the European Union, the Nuffield Foundation and the Humanities Research Board. 2 Editorial ANDREW HUNT I suppose it sounds trite, but I've always thought that the study of History was more about questions than answers; there's often more satisfaction in the search than the finding since what you find is often just the beginning of a new search anyway. In the eyes of a typical SS pupil however, it is this "never-ending journey" that is probably the key distinguishing feature about History that makes it more difficult than other subjects; it never seems to end up with a right answer and no-one ever gets full marks foran essay! This must be what keeps bringingme back to my articlechoice forthe Year Book; foryet anotheryear it is (largely) topics in the modem option of the Higher syllabus being viewed from a new angle. The exception is the article on Shakespeare's views on the Tudors. I am glad to include a late medieval topic, an area I too often neglect. "Highers" is the firstgroup of pupils up through the school where the teacher can really expectto get involved in the pleasures of History as debate, where there is no cosy right answer, just views, and pupils have to become comfortable with the idea of uncertainty. You can touch on this uncertainty principle occasionally at Credit S4 but not in every lesson or in too much depth or you risk losing your class. Now, at Higher, debate is the very meat and drink of the subject so, whether the pupils are accustomed to it or not, the methodology of the course is to dish out the class texts then try your hardest to demolish every view contained therein with better arguments from elsewhere which show that the established views were merely products of their time. Of course, this doesn't often work-iHiff'aCtice since most of the good text books contain a range of views anyway and then refuse to be an obliging 'aunt sally' by coming to simple 'certain' conclusions which can be triumphantly rejected. To regular readers of this Year .Book, (who bother reading the Editorial) this must look like my Holy Grail, the constant search forrevisionist approaches to topics in the Higher syllabus! Somewhere out there, there must be some new slants or insights or attitudes that have emerged that will alter the established credo or encourage research in new directions. Unlike the Holy Grail however (which I assume was never meant to befound), every year I am lucky enough to findwhat I am lookingfor; contributors who have a perception or interpretation that, in some small or large way, attacks the prevailing orthodoxy. Criticalnew thoughts on the place of women, the Scottish angle on suffragettes, Weimar Germany, the gold standard and Scottish labour in this issue of the Year Book, will all be of great value to teachers of senior History classes. I therefore extend my unreserved thanks and appreciation to this year's contributors who took on challenging ideas and worked out how they could be best expressed to be of value to teachers handling them with Higher pupils. Something of the nuance and flavour and style of these articles must find its way into whichever classes these topics are taught. New ideas being fedinto the debate are essential if we are not to slip into the routine of just re-cycling our old orthodoxies. Every year we face freshpupils ready to engage in the debate; I hopethis Year Bookwill always be able to offer us material to freshenup our own act. It is only what the pupils deserve. 3 William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and Richard ill KEITH DOCKRAY TheShakespearian Plays Despite the vast amount that has been written about the Wars of the Roses in general, and Richard Ill in particular,since the 1950s, most people's knowledge of the later fifteenthcentury (such as it is) probably still largely derives from William Shakespeare.' The great Elizabethan dramatist, in fact, has traditionally been acknowledged as author of no fewer than eight history plays covering the era of Plantagenet rule in England from Richard II to Richard Ill.
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