How to access and modify previous commands (bash history) in Termux

I use Termux on my Fairphone 2 and I want to speed up working with it. What slows me down is not having an up arrow key that I can use to access the last command in my bash history. I can do !! !7 and so on, but most of the time I don't want to actually repeat the commands, I just want to do something similar. I know some keyboard shortcuts to work with my bash history but they require a ctrl key, which none of my keyboards have. I use - AnySoftKeyboard - Hacker's Keyboard - AOSP Keyboard None of them have up arrow or ctrl keys At the moment, I select and copy text by touching, but this is still slow. How can I access my previous commands more quickly?