Teaching History 199: Ordinary People

The HA's journal for secondary history teachers

Published: 1st July 2025

In this edition of Teaching History

Please note: the print edition of Teaching History 199 will start arriving with members from around 7 July onwards. Individual articles will be linked from this page soon.  

03 Editorial

04 HA Secondary News

06 HA Update

08 When a name is not enough: telling rich stories about women’s lives in the American West at GCSE – Nicole Ridley 

16 Volunteers against fascism and appeasement: teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in the Spanish Civil War – Alex Clifford and Peter Anderson 

24 Cunning Plan… for teaching medieval Muslim Spain – Jack Brown and Bobby Suman 

32 ‘Was this anger all about rabbits?’: collaborating with historians and local heritage professionals to help Year 7 make sense of the 1381 revolt – Steve Clarke, John Mitchell and David Ingledew 

44 What Have Historians Been Arguing About... transnational history – Gregory Billam 

48 Teaching trans histories: Who was Paul Downing and what can his life tell us about trans history? – Lucy Capes, Remi Graves and Onni Gust 

56 Getting the most out of teaching with Wild Swans: a knowledge-rich approach to introducing China’s history to Year 9 – Freya George 

64 Move Me On 

68 Mummy, Mummy...

Regular features

Teaching History includes a number of regular features for history teachers including What have historians been arguing about...?, Cunning Plan and Move Me On. You can access past editions of these here.

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