Periods
The content of the history curriculum can be arranged both by period and theme. In this section, we have arranged the content by chronological period. These periods are arranged according to the same date ranges given in the National Curriculum for ease of navigation by teachers who may be looking for specific content related to the taught curriculum. While the date ranges given in the National Curriculum are the subject of debate, they form a workable search tool.
Ancient
- Building local history into the curriculum
- Film: Attic Inscriptions
- How history learners can ‘dig school’ under lockdown
- Polychronicon 169: Herodotus
- “They Ought to Know the Achievements of the Ancient Greeks”
- Podcast series & associated scheme of work: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Religion
Early Medieval
- Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons
- How history learners can ‘dig school’ under lockdown
- Cunning Plan 178: How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?
- Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages
- Exploring and Teaching Medieval History in Schools
- Teaching, learning and sharing medieval history for all
1066-1509
- Power, authority and geography
- Film: Henry V: Henry the Conqueror?
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the long-term impact of the Black Death on English towns
- Cunning Plan 178: How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?
- Widening the early modern world to create a more connected KS3 curriculum
- Film: Creating a more positive interpretation of the Middle Ages at Key Stage 3
1509-1745
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?
- Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum
- Move Me On 183: sees no reason to include Black or Asian British history
- Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714
- Inventing race? Using primary sources to investigate the origins of racial thinking in the past
- Unpicking the threads of interpretations
1745-1901
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... expanding the reach of the American Revolution
- Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?
- Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the KS3 history curriculum
- Diversifying the curriculum: one department’s holistic approach
- Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history
1901-present
- Exploring and Teaching Twentieth-Century History
- Teaching 20th-Century History Resources
- Polychronicon 167: The strange career of Richard Nixon
- Inverting the telescope: investigating sources from a different perspective
- Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated
- Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947