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  • Out and about in Tamworth

      Historian feature
    Trevor James introduces the wider context in which Tamworth’s history has developed. Modern-day visitors to Tamworth immediately observe its very extensive out-of-town shopping areas and industrial estates and then, in stark parallel, notice that the signage is welcoming them to the capital of historic Mercia. Investigating this conundrum is the...
    Out and about in Tamworth
  • Teaching History 80

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 Re-Thinking Collingwood: a reply to Keith Jenkins's Re-thinking History Mamie T.E. Hughes 9 Secondary History Teaching and the OFSTED Inspections: an analysis and discussion of history comments Paul Bowen 14 The Re-appearance of a Cheshire Cat - teaching the history of Britain at key stage...
    Teaching History 80
  • Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing

      Teaching History article
    Heidi Le Cocq sets out the classic problem of the history teacher: how does she cover the content and ensure that pupils reflect and analyse at the same time? She relates this to a another problem: how do you prepare pupils well for coursework (ensuring, for example, that they adopt...
    Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing
  • Primary history and British values

      Article
    In this article, Michael Maddison provides an overview of what schools must do in relation to promoting British values, as well as preventing extremism and radicalisation, and why it is so important that opportunities are taken in history to  deal with these two pressing issues. It is an updated version...
    Primary history and British values
  • Teaching History 79

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 The Revised History Order Sue Bennett and Ian Steele 9 From Plowden to Dearing Patrick Wood 11 Developing an Understanding of Time Sydney Wood 15 The Development Of Temporal Concepts in Children and its Significance for History Teaching in the Senior Primary School Cheryl-Ann Simchowitz...
    Teaching History 79
  • Using original sources

      Primary History article
    Why would I want those old books in my classroom? It has always been recognised that good primary history is able to connect the past with the world the children currently inhabit. That is why focusing on schools can be so useful. If there is one experience the children have...
    Using original sources
  • 'Right well kept': Peterborough Abbey 1536-1539

      Historian article
    Although the reasons for and the process of dissolution in Peterborough Abbey compare closely to all other religious houses, the consequences were unique. Peterborough received favourable treatment and so emerged from the dissolution as one of six abbeys to be transformed into new cathedrals. The changes imposed on Peterborough were...
    'Right well kept': Peterborough Abbey 1536-1539
  • Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives

      Historian article
    In the last two decades or so there has been a movement towards digitising large collections of original sources. These projects have had a range of purposes, approaches and target audiences but there can be little doubt that they have had a profound impact on the practice of history in...
    Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives
  • Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing

      Teaching History article
    There are two main reasons why it is important for history teachers to make sense of the art teacher's processes, aims and perspectives: first, if we are concerned to improve pupils' historical knowledge and understanding then we will want to know about how learning in other subjects impacts upon it...
    Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing
  • Celebrating Success: Quality Mark

      London Fields Primary School achieves Gold Award Quality Mark
    London Fields is a larger than average primary school situated in Hackney, east London. The school was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2011 and again in 2015. The school has a challenging context with free school meals, minority ethnic groups and English as an Additional Language all far in excess...
    Celebrating Success: Quality Mark
  • History supporting global learning

      Primary History article
    I am the teaching head of a small village primary school, Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary, in Cumbria. We have, for the last year been one of the first Centres for Excellence for the Global Learning Programme (GLP).The GLP is a Department for International Development (DFID) initiative which began in September 2013...
    History supporting global learning
  • The Historian 120: The calm before the storm? The World in 1913

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The Romanov Tercentenary: nostalgia versus history on the eve of the Great War - Catherine Merridale (Read Article) 12 The world in 1913: friendly societies - Daniel Weinbren (Read Article) 17 The President's Column 18 Franz Ferdinand - Ian F. W. Beckett (Read Article) 23 Round About A...
    The Historian 120: The calm before the storm? The World in 1913
  • First Zeppelin shot down over Britain

      Historian article
    In the First World War Britain suddenly became vulnerable to aerial attack. Alf Wilkinson records a memorable turning-point in the battle against the Zeppelin menace. On the night of the 2-3 September 1916 Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson became the first pilot to shoot down a Zeppelin raider over Britain. He...
    First Zeppelin shot down over Britain
  • Why did the Dome fail?

      Historian article
    History gives us a basis for understanding the groups which people belong to, the countries people live in and the institutions which govern them. It provides a sense of continuity and identity. However, on 31 December 1999 the Queen and Prime Minister opened an exhibition which made no reference to...
    Why did the Dome fail?
  • 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...
    Primary History 33
  • Teaching History 178: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 178 Constructing Accounts Teachers of history have long recognised the tensions inherent in our role. We must deal with the existence of notions of a core narrative (or narratives) of areas of the past, communicating what those notions are while enabling our students to engage critically with...
    Teaching History 178: Out now
  • The Hopi is different from the Pawnee: using a datafile to explore pattern and diversity

      Article
    Dave Martin identifies the factors which led to new knowledge and understanding in a mixed ability Year 7 class. Not only did these pupils acquire greater knowledge of the native peoples of North America, they also learned transferable techniques for identifying and analysing pattern and diversity. Clear learning objectives led...
    The Hopi is different from the Pawnee: using a datafile to explore pattern and diversity
  • Move Me On 96: Struggling with language register - getting pitch right

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: John Ball is having difficulty getting his language register right Problem: John is several weeks into his first school placement. He is very much enjoying the PGCE course. It is proving to be the intellectual and practical challenge that he hoped. He has come to the course...
    Move Me On 96: Struggling with language register - getting pitch right
  • Teaching History 77

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 6 History, Autonomy and Education or History Helps Your Students Be Autonomous Five Ways (with apologies to PAL dog food) Peter Lee 11 Theory and Practice Essay: The Use of Resources and Teaching Aids in the Teaching of History, with particular reference to Year EightElizabeth Danks...
    Teaching History 77
  • Queen Victoria as a Politician

      Article
    Even had Queen Victoria not presided over the achievements of the age which bears her name, her career would still hold a fascination for the historian. She was, for one thing, the solitary woman in a male political world. She was possessed of a personality at once perceptive and simple,...
    Queen Victoria as a Politician
  • Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time

      Teaching History feature
    GCSE development studies require students to assess change over vast periods of time. How can we cover the content whilst ensuring that our students do not lose sight of the big picture? Look to your choice of big enquiries for the solution. Here is one efficient and motivating approach devised...
    Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time
  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 2- Spring 2012.     Marcelo Fronza and Maria Auxiliadora Moreira dos Santos The Conceptions of Objective Historical Knowledge of Young Students in Brazilian High Schools   Olga Magalhaes Historical Narratives of Young Portuguese Students   Rita de Cassia Goncalves Pacheco...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2
  • Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

      Article
    Many history teachers will remember the feature on Jamie Byrom's teaching in Times Educational Supplement of July 1996 where he attacked the recent fashion of history textbooks for encouraging only short (and usually formulaic) responses about reliability of sources. He demonstrated the systematic teaching that pupils need if they are...
    Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again
  • Teaching History 175: Out now

      24th June 2019
    The effort to discern hidden voices is intrinsic to the integrity of historical practice. The professional historian poring over primary sources strives to establish who can be heard in any text or artefact, which voices are being inadvertently favoured or what light further voices might shed on the question in...
    Teaching History 175: Out now
  • The Historian 112: The Myth of the frontier in the Hollywood western

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 Nazi aggression: planned or improvised? - Hendrik Karsten Hogrefe (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Jackie Eales 12 Neville Chamberlain: villain or hero? - Brent Dyck (Read Article) 16 Cyprus: another Middle East issue - Sarah Newman (Read Article) 20 Have gun, will travel: The myth of the...
    The Historian 112: The Myth of the frontier in the Hollywood western