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A fascinating but rather complex historiographical debate, which I have aimed to simplify for students using this worksheet<\/a>. The debate is initially distilled down to the AJP Taylor \/ Trevor-Roper clash, which is then broken down into its constituent arguments, and students are then invited to research the views of other historians in more detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fascinating but rather complex historiographical debate, which I have aimed to simplify for students using this worksheet. The debate is initially distilled down to the AJP Taylor \/ Trevor-Roper clash, which is then broken down into its constituent arguments, and students are then invited to research the views of other historians in more detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-ib-history","category-igcse-gcse-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":341,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-korean-war-consequences-and-conclusion\/","url_meta":{"origin":83,"position":0},"title":"The Korean War: Consequences and Conclusion","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"May 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Korean War: Consequences and Conclusion GCSE \/ IGCSE History students round off their studies with a debate about the \"Big Issues\"","rel":"","context":"In "1900-2000 (GCSE History)"","block_context":{"text":"1900-2000 (GCSE History)","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/category\/historical-periods\/20th-century\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":327,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/hiroshima-and-nagasaki\/","url_meta":{"origin":83,"position":1},"title":"Hiroshima and Nagasaki","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"March 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In this lesson, students consider the ethical implications behind the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by reconstructing a scientific debate chaired by Farrington Daniels in 1945. 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