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Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated
Studying famous people at Key Stage One has obviously been an issue for many years and no matter how long you have been teaching the name Florence Nightingale seems to appear as the only famous...
Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One
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Teaching History 38
Journal
Editorial, page 2
The Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education - What the History Teacher can Contribute - Ben Kerwood, page 3
The Lincolnshire Educational Aids Project - A Successful Launch into Historical Aids - Ray Acton and Tim Hall, page 8
The Humanities Teaching and Computing Project-Jon Nichol with Jackie Dean,...
Teaching History 38
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Teaching History 112: Empire
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History including: A case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at key Stage 3, Using this map and all of your knowledge become Bismark, National Archives and the british Empire, Imperialism and the Roman Empire, History's challenge: facing the future,...
Teaching History 112: Empire
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Teaching History 110: Communicating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
08 Narrative: an underrated skill - Seán Lang (Read article)
18 Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion - Maria Bakalis (Read article)
27 Developing conceptual understanding through talk and mapping - Jannet van Drie and Carla van Boxteland (Read article)
32 ‘You be Britain and I’ll be Germany...’ Inter-school e-mailing in...
Teaching History 110: Communicating History
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New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective
Teaching History article
In September 2002 Citizenship becomes a completely new subject in England’s secondary schools. Jerome Freeman, Principal Officer for History with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) — the authority responsible for advising the British government on curriculum content and qualification standards in England - outlines QCA’s view on the connections...
New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective
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Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
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Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
With primary history contributing to writing, some research by Sandra Dunsmuir and Peter Blatchford into pupils aged 4-7 has relevance to history teaching. The findings were published in the "British Journal of Educational Psychology", edition...
Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History
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Teaching History 36
Journal
Teaching History, June 1983 Number 36
In this issue:
Editorial, page 2
Off the Record: the Ommission of Women from Classroom Historical Evidence - Carol Adams, page 3
Sex Differences and Historical Understanding - Martin Booth, page 7
Sexist Microcosm - R.J. Bradbury and C.A. Newbould, page 9
A Feast...
Teaching History 36
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Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This issue deals with critical approaches to citizenship, democracy and identity. Teaching Year 9 to be critical, Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War, Pupils' perception of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4, Does studying WW2 make any difference to pupils' sense...
Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity
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Teaching History 32
Journal
Editorial, page 2
The Role of History in Multi-Cultural Education - David Edgington, page 3
The Perception of Indian History Teachers about the Ideal Pupil - Vijay K. Raina, page 6
Can History Survive? - Trevor Fisher, page 8
Report: Teaching A Level History: A Conference Report - Sandra Armstrong,...
Teaching History 32
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Teaching History 34
Journal
Teaching History, October 1982 Number 34
In this issue:
Editorial, page 2
Museums and the Use of Evidence in History Teaching - Carol Adams and Sue Millar, page 3
A Course of Local History for 12-13 year olds and their Reactions to it - John Mathews, page 7
Developments in...
Teaching History 34
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Primary History 13
Journal
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 Behind the Suit An Ofsted...
Primary History 13
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Working as a team to teach the Holocaust well: a language-centred approach
Teaching History article
Clear themes run through the work of the history department at Huntington School. A remarkably consistent emphasis on language and literacy, including work on speaking and listening of many types, is a hallmark of this sequence of six Year 9 lessons on the Holocaust, described in detail by head of...
Working as a team to teach the Holocaust well: a language-centred approach
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Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah
Teaching History article
Nicolas Kinloch’s 1998 review of Michael Burleigh’s Ethics and Extermination in Teaching History, 93, sparked a debate amongst our readers about the teaching of the Holocaust, concerning both rationales and practical approaches. Citing the damage caused to pupils’ understanding by a Spielberg view of history, he emphasised that the rationale...
Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah
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The Philosophy of History
Classic Pamphlet
Philosophy is thinking about the world as a whole. To study the nature of selected parts of the world is to be a scientist; to study its nature as a whole is to be a philosopher. Thus, it is the business of one kind of scientist-the mathematical physicist-to study matter...
The Philosophy of History
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From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance
Teaching History article
In this detailed account of the first stages of a lesson sequence for Year 9 (13-14 year-olds), Kate Hammond sets out the tensions that must be examined and resolved when planning and teaching this most demanding of topics. How can young teenagers be helped to develop a mature response to...
From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance
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Teaching History 29
Journal
Editorial, page 2
Notes on Contributors, page 3
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Keith Hodgkinson and Michael Long, page 3
Notes and news, page 7
Primary School Children's Preception of Authenticity and Time in Historical Narrative Pictures - John West, page 8
A Course in Local History Tonbridge...
Teaching History 29
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Pull-out posters: Primary History 89
Vikings in 'these islands'; Ancient Greece
Where did the Vikings go to in ‘these islands’?
Ancient Greece – Did you know…?
Pull-out posters: Primary History 89
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What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations
Teaching History article
Teaching History frequently celebrates and analyses the practice of those history departments that appear to buck trends. In keeping with the Historical Association’s Campaign for History and its popular ‘Choosing History at 14’ Pack, a number of articles and Triumphs Shows in recent editions of Teaching History have celebrated the...
What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations
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The potential of primary history
Primary History article
In this article Alison Kitson and Michael Riley consider the potential of the primary history curriculum to educate children about climate change and sustainability. They suggest some important principles, and a range of strategies, that could be used to develop a stronger emphasis on environmental history in primary history.
The potential of primary history
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Teaching History 26
Journal
Editorial, page 2
Contributors, page 3
Trainee Teachers of History and Infants as Learners - John Fines, page 3
Howler of the Year Competition, page 5
A Castle in a Classroom - Carole Taylor and Joan Allmark, page 6
Indian Village: a Simulation Exercise - Thomas F. Willer and Bruce...
Teaching History 26
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The Jews of Medieval England
Historian article
The diversity of the history of the British Isles continues to be a subject of discussion in academic circles and in popular culture. Some communities have been around for hundreds of years, while others have been part of our societies and then disappeared or been eroded. One of the communities...
The Jews of Medieval England
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History Education Research Journal
Formerly the International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research
History Education Research Journal
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Legacies of the Cement Armada
Historian article
Steven Pierce writes about Nigeria, long known for its flamboyant corruption, some of which stems from accidents of history. Its true international notoriety emerged in 1974–75, when half the world’s concrete supply was mysteriously diverted to the port of Lagos, paralysing it for a year. This article examines how the press coverage...
Legacies of the Cement Armada
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Unpicking the threads of interpretations
Teaching History article
Determined to do justice to the complexity of the seventeenth century, as a messy but crucial period in British history, and to develop their pupils’ disciplinary understanding of how and why interpretations of the past are constructed, Dan Keates and his department set out to exploit the rich seam of...
Unpicking the threads of interpretations
