Helping children understand the past and how the historical record is put together and communicated is enshrined within the National Curriculum. At the end of...

To develop an understanding of the ways in which different Interpretations of events are formed. For example, pupils studying Northern Ireland as a GCSE...

The mention of 'The Domesday Project' to any teacher who was in the classroom in 1985 usually triggers a very vivid memory of involvement in a national survey...

IntroductionThe employment of the visual image is a fascinating and exciting way to enable children to gain a glimpse into the past. It is problematic,...

History is now an extremely popular subject with children, parents and teachers says a new research study - especially when children find out about the Ancient...

Museums are memory boxes. They contain artefacts that tell stories about people in the past. The creation of a class museum is a simple and effective way of...

The draft of the revised Key Stage 3 programme of study for history brings a new prominence to the study of the British Empire. Here one department describes...

A post cold war world: The last decade of the 20th century saw a sea change in the political systems of the Soviet Bloc and a corresponding re-orientation of...

There are many effective ways of using artefacts and resources for the Victorians, but how many teachers have considered using the rubbish that the Victorians...

In the third year at London Metropolitan University, history B.ED students research and prepare a resource about an aspect of life in C19th Britain for use...

Museums and galleries are becoming increasingly concerned with their relevance to schools and are more obviously emphasising different ways of learning and...

In her article in Primary History No 21, Jayne Woodhouse highlighted that the study of history needn’t be all about national events. Essentially it is a...

There is a huge potential for using ICT to enhance children’s historical learning. This article suggests ways in which ICT was employed to record...

At one level the discussion of the relationship between academic and subject knowledge is relatively simplistic. It is clear that there is a correlation...

This article describes activity bags produced for families to use at Tate Britain. They are intended to provide resources and activities that are entertaining,...

This section explores some of the key ideas and activities for time, causation, interpretations, enquiry and signififcane. There are also some ideas on how...

The ‘imagined’ past presents as many problems for historians as it does for the teachers of history - how much of the past can we truly know? To...

Early in July of this year I was involved in a meeting at BECTA in which a lively discussion took place about whether ICT should be a requirement, or not, in...

Alongside modern University buildings, at Beckett Park, (part of Leeds Metropolitan University), there is evidence of a monastic grange, a seventeenth century...

IntroductionHistory and Art have been taught as traditional subjects for many...