Making history personal

This edition deals with helping pupils to relate to, and empathise with, history. The Great War, Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitudes, Josephine Butler and significance, The teaching and learning of history for 15-16yr olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the English experience and much more...

07 ‘Please send socks.’ How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War? - Sally Evans, Chris Grier, Jemma Phillips and Sarah Colton (Read article)

17 ‘They took Ireland away from us and we’ve got to fight to get it back’. Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitudes - Alan McCully and Nigel Pilgrim (Read article)

22 A true individual: Oliver Cromwell, hero and villain - Nick Poyntz (Read article)

24 Empathy without illusions - Deborah L. Cunningham (Read article)

30 Looking through a Josephine-Butler-shaped window: focusing pupils’ thinking on historical significance - Christine Counsell (Read article)

34 Cunning Plan: Building overview understanding of 19th-century social history - Christine Counsell (Read article)

37 The teaching and learning of history for 15-16 year olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the English experience? - Yvonne Larsson, Richard Matthews and Martin Booth (Read article)

44 Move Me On: trainee is having problems teaching the history of medicine course at GCSE (Read article)