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
- Sudan Holy Mountain: Jebel Barkal and its Temples
- Recorded webinar: Maya ruler King Pakal II of Palenque
- Building local history into the curriculum
- Film: Attic Inscriptions
- How history learners can ‘dig school’ under lockdown
- Polychronicon 169: Herodotus
Early Medieval
- Unpacking the enquiry puzzle
- Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England
- 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
1066-1509
- Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom
- Broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources
- Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation
- Using the present to construct a meaningful picture of the medieval past
- Recorded webinar: The People of 1381
- Film: A Jewish Divorce Case in Medieval England
1509-1745
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic
- Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England
- Disembarking the religious rollercoaster
- Why history teachers should not be afraid to venture into the long eighteenth century
- Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation
- Inclusive approaches to teaching Elizabeth I at GCSE
1745-1901
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... schooling and the British Empire
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Modern British LGBTQ+ history
- How visual evidence reflects change and continuity in attitudes to the police in the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Why history teachers should not be afraid to venture into the long eighteenth century
- Using eighteenth-century material culture to develop evidential thinking in Year 8
- ‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8
1901-present
- Learning from a pandemic
- 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