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In September 1985 full-time work began, under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, on writing a co-operative, up-to-date volume on the history of the London County Council to appear in its centenary year, 1989. The inauguration of this ambitious project occurred-fitly in some ways, in others ominously-at just the time that the Greater London Council was about to disappear and with it a 100-year-old assumption that 'unitary metropolitan government' is inevitable and natural. Nobody thinks that the problems of London government are going to go away after GLC abolition, and the most exciting thing that might come out of a reinterpretation of the LCC's history is that it could inform future debate about what metropolitan government has been and can be, and what it has done and can do for Londoners. That is certainly our intention.

Louise I. Capen, D. Montfort Melchior : Reprint of: My worth to the world : studies in citizenship / Louise I. Capen, D. Montfor Metchior. Enlarged ed., Pennsylvania government and history : New York : American Book Co., c1944. ch. 33 : Textbook. Includes questions and projects at the end of each section : Includes bibliographical references (p. 784-787) : Pennsylvania history on microfilm

"This fifth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains a broad range of articles spanning the 1870s to the present and examines the mostly unexplored place of women in the history of Canada's Prairie Provinces. From "Spinsters Need Not Apply" to "Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement," women's roles in politics, law, agriculture, labour, and journalism are explored to reveal a complex portrait of women struggling to find safety, have careers, raise children, and be themselves in an often harsh environment."--

There has been a general unwillingness in the profession to grapple seriously with the arguments of Charles Sellers's The Market Revolution. This is unfortunate, for Sellers's book demands close scrutiny because it raises important questions about the significance of the Jacksonian era, the relationship between public policy and democracy, and the fundamental purpose of history. In their helpful comments, Herbert Hovenkamp and Iver Bernstein challenge directly very few of my criticisms of the book. Silence may or may not be acquiescence, but I see no purpose in repeating my arguments. Since after several weeks of trying Sellers abandoned his attempt to write a response, readers can read his book, my critique, and Hovenkamp's and Bernstein's comments and make up their own minds.

In his Australia Day address in 2006, John Howard, the (then) Australian Prime Minister, called for a "root and branch renewal of the teaching of Australian History". This led, later in 2006, to a meeting in Canberra, sponsored by the Minister for Education, and held under the auspices of the Commonwealth Department of Education, of Australian Historians and a few History teachers. The purpose of this gathering was to make recommendations in response to a proposal to make Australian History compulsory in all Australian schools at some point. The summit concluded that Year Nine was a good point at which to implement such a course and a further group were deputed to draft a syllabus. That group reported late last year, just as the government changed. Now it appears that the approach favoured by the Howard Government will be abandoned. This paper analyses these events both in terms of the attempt to implement assert a socially conservative and economically neoliberal view of the world, while appearing to favour "objective narrative", and the deeper contradiction between politically driven syllabus construction and students' learning.