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As students digest their GCSE and A-Level results, they might be surprised to learn that the origins of the examination system date back 150 years to the 'Locals' set for the first time by Oxford University in June 1858, and by Cambridge University in December of the same year. Cambridge Assessment, as the University of Cambridge examinations syndicate is now called, still sets secondary examinations for students in the UK as well as more than 150 countries around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the "Battle of Brisbane," a riot occurring November 26, 1942 between American and Australian Armed Forces stationed in Brisbane, Queensland during World War II. Tensions between soldiers of the two countries had already been established based on issues such as rate of pay, access to luxuries, and racial attitudes. When U.S. Army Military Police stopped a group of Australian and American soldiers, violence ensued. The incident was downplayed in local papers because of censorship.

This article presents news briefs regarding issues of history. Archaeologists in Pakistan are calling for a complete ban on the use of historical sites for private functions. The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to allow greater access to the papers of former presidents. Geneticists working on DNA data from across the British Isles are presenting the theory that the inhabitants of Britain and Ireland are more closely related than previously thought.

Comments on several articles related to history, published in the periodical 'History Today.' Information on Thomas Jefferson's libraries; Confusions posed by a discussion on the association between the desire to tax the citizens of the U.S. and the Seven Years' War; Request for papers on Hugh Dalton.

The author explores the history and historiography of blindness, which has become a popular contemporary topic of historical studies based on the 2013 exhibitions including "Touching the Book" at the University of London and "Facing Blindness" at the National Portrait Gallery, both in London, England. A June 2013 history conference featured papers on topics including blindness in the Middle and Far East, blindness in the Middle Ages, and radio for the blind in interwar France.

The article discusses historical events that occurred in the year 2009. Events include the burial of more than five hundred Bosnian Muslim victims of the Srebrenica massacre, the completion of the first part of the State Papers Online Project, and the launch of an online collection of images chronicling Europe's colonization of East Africa.

The article discusses the life and career of Sir Joseph Thomson, who discovered the electron. Thomson attended Owens College, where he received a strong background in mathematics and physics, and published his first paper on an aspect of electromagnetic theory in 1876. He then went on to Trinity College in Cambridge. Thomson revealed the existence of the electron during a lecture in 1897. The article discusses Thomson's achievements in science.

Presents news briefs about history in the mass media as of May 2000. Release of British Royal Advisor Sir Edward Monkton's papers to the Bodleian Library; Reason for the renaming of the Directors Guild of America's award; Discovery of Aboriginal relics in New South Wales.

The article offers a guide to writing the themes paper in history. The themes paper is about breadth and not depth. Hence, rather than being concerned with the minute details of events that an in-depth study requires, students need to take a broad perspective and look for developments and change over time. Key themes will often include the nature of government, opposition, religion, the economy, and war.