Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.

From the late 1960s until 1989 history was almost universally taught in primary schools as an element in integrated crosscurricular programmes, normally social studies or humanities.

The 1989/1990 National Curriculum: History radically changed this. It introduced history as a stand-alone statutory subject with both prescribed content - history as story and narrative - and history as enquiry: the skills, disciplinary concepts, processes, procedures and protocols that 'Doing History' involves and develops.

Three editions of Primary History in 2007, 2008 and 2009 examined history's integrated and cross-curricular role. These editions contain a range of articles and case studies that empower teachers creatively and freely:

• to plan the curriculum with full pupil, parent and community involvement while enhancing
• core areas of the curriculum - literacy, numeracy, ICT, thinking skills and education for citizenship.

History can provide a curricular framework with guidance for integration and cross curricularity.