Local History
What constitutes local history can be a grey area. It includes, the history of your school, the history of the town or village in which you live, and the history of a particular county or region. Local history forms a key element of the history curriculum from Key Stages 1-3 and is a way of making links between the locality and national and international events. The question for many schools is whether to teach a local history unit discretely or whether to incorporate it into another unit. There are a number of things that the teacher of local history needs to have in their toolkit, especially if you, as the teacher, are not particularly familiar with the local context of the school in which you teach. In this section you will find helpful articles, guides and resources to enable you to make local history meaningful.
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Studying our own school’s archives to promote historical understanding in Year 7
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Dialogue, engagement and generative interaction in the history classroom
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Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership
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Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity
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Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry
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Inverting the telescope: investigating sources from a different perspective
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Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar
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Using databases to explore the real depth in the data
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Exploring big overviews through local depth
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Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources
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Making sense of the eighteenth century
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Year 9 face up to historical difference
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Year 7 explore the story of a London street
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English Heritage and Historical Association Local Heritage Project
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Using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry
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Community engagement in local history
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A local history toolkit
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Newspaper Collection
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'How our area used to be back then': An oral history project in an east London school
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Riots, railways and a Hampshire hill fort: Exploiting local history for rigorous evidential enquiry
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