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Primary History 16
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 A Good Place for an Investigation - Diana Knapp
7 Primary Conference Report - Russell Carter
8 How a Little Hollywood Can Help History - Vincent Jones
10 Historical Fiction and Museum Objects - Neil Curtis, Janet Goolnick, Kate Hopkins
12 Primary Update
13 Young National Trust Theatre - Sally Littlefair ...
Primary History 16
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Primary History 14
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 Not Henry VIII! - Ann Darrant
6 History Through the Streets - Robin Coulthard
8 We Plough the Fields - Patrick Wood & Norma Bell
10 Digging for Victory - Erica Pounce
15 An Active Approach to Ancient History: the Greeks - Harriet Martin
18 Grace Darling and Reception Children...
Primary History 14
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Primary History 13
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 Viewpoint - Grant Bage
4 Primary History Teachers - an endangered species? - Alan Hodkinson
5 Corinthian Helmet - Patrick Wood
6 Begin at the Beginning: The Iliad - Patrick Wood
8 Using Greek Vases in a Study of the Greeks at Key Stage 2 - Keith Dickson
10...
Primary History 13
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Primary History 12
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
5 Towards a Philosophy of Primary History - John Fines
Quarry Bank Mill
6 The Apprentice House - Vivienne Woods
7 Who Carried the Can? - Keith Robinson
9 A Dark Satanic Mill - Pauline Milk
10 The Fiction of History - Ian Fell
Ironbridge Gorge Museum
12 The Museum...
Primary History 12
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Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly
Teaching History article
Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may now be outdated.
Robert Guyver describes a model for teaching Boudicca’s rebellion to pupils aged 7 to 13. Drawing on the tradition of critical source evaluation, he nonetheless shuns aspects of that tradition in favour of...
Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly
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The Dilemma of Senator Williams
IJHLTR Article
Abstract
The titled “Senator Williams, Do You Vote For or Against on the Diego Resolution before Senate” encourages students to engage in historical empathy and critical inquiry on the possible military intervention in the small hypothetical country of Ersatz. The Diego Resolution asks the Senate to endorse the President’s plan to move a...
The Dilemma of Senator Williams
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History in the Urban Environment
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
A study of the local environment can make a vital contribution to children's sense of identity, their sense of place and the community in which they live. More importantly, a local study can enable children...
History in the Urban Environment
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'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’
Teaching History article
Jim Carroll was concerned that A-level textbooks failed to provide his students with a model of the multi-voicedness that characterises written history. In order to show his students that historians constantly engage in argument as they write, Carroll turned to academic scholarship for models of multi-voiced history. Carroll explains here...
'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’
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OFSTED, primary history and creativity
Primary History article
Co-ordinators concerns: OFSTED, primary history and creativity
I'm told the emphasis in schools now is for a rigorous approach to history where the children are taught the main facts and features of history. I recall a time not so long ago when the whole curriculum was about creativity but surely...
OFSTED, primary history and creativity
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Teaching ‘these islands’ from prehistoric times to 1066
Primary History article
The first aim in the National Curriculum indicates that children should:
Know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider...
Teaching ‘these islands’ from prehistoric times to 1066
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What are the reasons for linking art and history?
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
Visual images, paintings, sculpture, photographs, cartoons from past times are important historical sources. Accordingly, Simon Schama embeds visual images and imagery in his historical oeuvre, not primarily as illustration but as a crucial...
What are the reasons for linking art and history?
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Art and History: Justifying the Links
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
History and Art have been taught as traditional subjects for many years and as cross curricular subjects they compliment each other beautifully. I do not see how we can realistically completely separate them...
Art and History: Justifying the Links
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Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum
Primary History article
Diogenes: WHITHER CREATIVITY?! A consideration of the article Creativity and the Primary Curriculum
In June 2010 the journal Primary Headship included an article entitled Creativity and the Primary Curriculum which endeavoured to pull together a range of positions as to where the curriculum might be going in the immediate future. These...
Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum
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Primary History 59: Chronology
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Editorial
06 Primary history in the 21st century: Back to the past? - Alan Hodkinson (Read article)
07 Teaching Time - John Fines (Read article)
08 Developing pupils' chronological understanding: The view from OFSTED - Michael Maddison HMI (Read article)
Features
10 A view from the classroom: Chronology - Cathie McIlroy...
Primary History 59: Chronology
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Helping Year 9 explore the cultural legacies of WW1
Teaching History article
A world turned molten: helping Year 9 to explore the cultural legacies of the First World War
Rachel Foster shows how her own study of cultural history led to a new dimension in her planning. She wanted to show her students not only that historians are interested in many different...
Helping Year 9 explore the cultural legacies of WW1
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Changing thinking about cause
Article
Aware both that causation is the bread and butter of the historian’s craft, and that trainee teachers find it far harder to teach well than they anticipate, Alex Ford sought to get to the heart of the problem with causation, especially at GCSE. When teaching to a specification and mark...
Changing thinking about cause
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Alan Turing
Article
The man who helped win the war, invented computing and inspired artificial intelligence research
Editorial note: Alan Turing was a major figure in the cracking of the Germans' Enigma code at Bletchley Park which could well have helped shortened World War II by a couple of years. The more general...
Alan Turing
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Looking at buildings as a source for developing historical enquiries
Primary History article
Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum. The section on using computers in particular is now outdated.
Buildings offer a fascinating insight into history. We live, work and shop in buildings of various descriptions. Some of these buildings are very new, others are very old. Frequently...
Looking at buildings as a source for developing historical enquiries
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Primary History 50
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
03 Editorial
05 In My View: History... about lives and living – Mick Waters (Read article)
07 In My View: primary history and the curriculum: a South African perspective – Gail Weldon (Read article)
08 In My View: history, values education & PSHE – Hilary Cooper (Read article)
09 In...
Primary History 50
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The Great Exhibition of 1851: teaching a significant event at Key Stage 1
Primary History article
The Great Exhibition allows pupils to consider the impact of a particular event. The exhibition provides a means to look at Britain’s wider role in the world and social and technical developments such as the impact of the railways. Pupils can explore a variety of sources, consider the substantive concepts...
The Great Exhibition of 1851: teaching a significant event at Key Stage 1
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Primary History 48
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
05 In my view: The serious business of comedy – Tony Robinson interviewed by Peter Vass
06 In my view: Means and Ends: History, Drama and Education for Life – Dorothy Heathcote (Read article)
08 History Coordinators’ Dilemmas: Drama, creativity, literacy and the curriculum – Tim Lomas
10 Think Bubble:...
Primary History 48
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British Women in the Nineteenth Century
Classic Pamphlet
A short pamphlet surveying the historical record of rather more than half the population of Britain over a period of a hundred years must of necessity be sketchy and incomplete. The great interest in history of women which has arisen in the last few decades has produced a great deal...
British Women in the Nineteenth Century
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Primary History 37
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial
4 Primary Noticeboard
6 In My View: Migration: the search for a better life? – Katherine Hann (Read article)
10 Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A significant Victorian? – Penelope Harnett (Read article)
13 Helping students make sense of historical time – Keith C. Barton (Read article)
15 Ofsted Report...
Primary History 37
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Primary History 29
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial – Tim Lomas
3 Primary Noticeboard – Tim Lomas
5 Britain and the wider world in Tudor times – Hilary Claire (Read article)
7 ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history – John W Robertson (Read article)
9 Monitoring, evaluating and...
Primary History 29
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Primary History 33
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial
4 Primary Noticeboard
5 In My View: Revolting subjects? – Dr Grant Bage
7 Breadth and Balance within the primary history curriculum? – John Clements
8 History co-ordinators’ dilemmas – Karin Doull
10 QCA Update – Jerome Freeman
11 Multicultural teaching in Portugal: a perspective – Manuela Carvalho...
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