In this edition of Teaching History

Please note: the print version of this edition will be arriving with members from 9 January.

03 Editorial (Read article)

04 HA Secondary News

06 HA Update: SEND matters

08 Working 9–5: how painters, plumbers and programmers help our pupils understand the role of the historian – Jessie Phillips and Sarah Jackson-Buckley (Read article)

18 What use is the myth of Winston Churchill? Teaching Year 9 pupils to see and sense social memory as an expression of knowledge about the past – William Mason (Read article)

25 ‘It’s not just men that do extraordinary things’: using Femina to reframe Year 7 pupils’ understanding of the medieval world – Freya George (Read article)

32 Triumphs Show: Shining a light on Eastern European history with Jadwiga of Poland – Sarah Hartsmith and Andrea Hale (Read article)

36 Plaques, place names and pubs: using local history to illuminate the complexities of interpretation with Year 8 – Jack Harris (Read article)

47 Cunning Plan… for teaching the Haitian Revolution – Ben Arscott (Read article)

52 What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Stalin’s final years: high or late Stalinism? – Robert Dale (Read article)

56 Interpreting Cyrus the Great for the lower school curriculum – Tom Leather (Read article)

64 Move Me On: trainee is using AI indiscriminately to try to save time (Read article)

68 Back Page Pick

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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