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  • Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with how to help pupils to notice in themselves those assumptions that are based on their own familiar world and which actually get in the way of making sense of past actions and belief. How one period visualises another, Ideas for developing chronological understanding, Modern day parallels...
    Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance

  • Roman Britain

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet provides an introduction to Roman Britain, examines the political history, the institutions of Roman Britain, the economic background and the end of Roman Britain. IntroductionThe Roman conquest and occupation of Britain has long been taken as the conventional starting point of English History, and there is a conventional...
    Roman Britain

  • 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

  • My Favourite History Place: David Pearse explores St Petersburg

      Historian feature
    If you want to understand Russian history from Peter the Great up to at least the 1917 Revolutions, you have to visit St Petersburg. Like Versailles, St Petersburg was built for an absolute monarch, on an unsuitable site, at the cost of many labourers' lives. Unlike Versailles, it was designed...
    My Favourite History Place: David Pearse explores St Petersburg

  • Primary History 20

      Journal
    4 PRIMARY UPDATE - TIM LOMAS 7 A VIKING NETWORK PROJECT - KIRKGATE, LEEDS - BARRIE MARKHAM RHODES 8 HAS THE PAST A FUTURE AT KEY STAGE 2? KEITH DICKSON 10 PYTHAGORAS AND NUMBER - COLIN MILLER 11 BRINGING LITERACY AND HISTORY CLOSER TOGETHER - DAVID WRAY AND MAUREEN LEWIS...
    Primary History 20

  • Teaching History 69

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Young Children's Thinking in History Hilary Cooper 8 The Magnificent Seven: Reasons for Teaching about Prehistory Peter Stone 13 National Curriculum History, Schemes of Work and the Primary School Child Brian Scott 19 Delivering the Primary History Curriculum Keith Crawford and Graham Rogers 22 The...
    Teaching History 69

  • Keeping children motivated in primary history while ensuring they can recall what they have been taught

      Primary History article
    Rachelle Blagdon leads history at Thomas Walling School – one that has already earned a gold Quality Mark. Impressing the assessor particularly was the way the school paid dual attention both to the motivation aspect of the subject and to effective curriculum planning. Four particular approaches were used to enhance...
    Keeping children motivated in primary history while ensuring they can recall what they have been taught

  • Riots, railways and a Hampshire hill fort: Exploiting local history for rigorous evidential enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rigorous historical enquiry is integral to effective history teaching. The 2008 National Curriculum has recognised its importance by giving it a broader definition as a key process to include not only the use of historical...
    Riots, railways and a Hampshire hill fort: Exploiting local history for rigorous evidential enquiry

  • Teaching History 70

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Change and Continuity: Some Reflections on the First Year's Implementation of Key Stage 3 History in the National Curriculum Robert Phillips 9 Implementing the National Curriculum, Term 1 Ruth Watts 13 History Tasks at Key Stage 3: A Survey from Five Schools Peter D. John...
    Teaching History 70

  • Cunning Plan 151: When and for whom has 1688 been 'Glorious'?

      Teaching History feature
    This enquiry is about how interpretations are formed and why they change. It aims to show Year 9, right at the end of their study of British history, the ways in which meanings of 1688 have shifted over time. It will test students' knowledge and strengthen their chronology of 300...
    Cunning Plan 151: When and for whom has 1688 been 'Glorious'?

  • Our Iron Age challenge

      Developing historical understanding through building an iron age house
    The University of Chichester’s three-year BA (Hons) Degree for Primary Education and Teaching involves learning how to provide rigorous and creative educational opportunities for children. The course involves one creativity module each year. The final one involves the development of skills and confidence in creating problem-solving. Four of us were...
    Our Iron Age challenge

  • Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

      Teaching History article
    The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) is a Cyprus-based organization that works to foster dialogue among history teachers and other educators across the divide in Cyprus. In one of their UN-funded projects, ADHR members worked with UK colleagues to shape a lesson sequence and resources on the Ottoman period...
    Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

  • The Historian

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Welcome to this special sample edition of The Historian. We have gathered here just a few of the fascinating articles and features that have been published in the quarterly editions in recent months. Deciding what to select was not an easy task as there are a wide range of styles,...
    The Historian

  • The digital revolution

      Primary History article
    Developments in information technology continue at an extraordinary pace. Many young children will have little or no idea of what it was like to live in a world without mobile phones, computers and the Internet. Most children will regularly make use of devices such as smart phones, digital cameras and...
    The digital revolution

  • Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making

      Teaching History article
    While previous work on historical interpretations has focused students’ attention on the particular questions that historians have been asking or the context in which they have been posing those questions, less attention has been paid to the process of historical narration itself – the decisions that are made in telling...
    Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making

  • Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    A quarter-century on from 1989-91, with a large amount of archive and media material available, these epic years are ripe for historical analysis. Yet their proximity to our time also throws up challenging questions about the practice of ‘contemporary history’, and the complexity of events raises larger issues about how...
    Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War

  • Teaching History 97: Visual History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical appoach to layers of inference for Key Stage 3, The Pittsburgh Conference on 'Teaching, Knowing and Learning. Practical classroom apporaches to the iconography of Irish history or: how far back do we really have to go? Substantial sculptures or...
    Teaching History 97: Visual History

  • World War II evacuation project - A living history experience

      Primary History case study
    Editorial note: The WOW factor. When we first received and read the World War II Evacuation Project case study we simply went WOW! It was genuinely mind-blowing. Below we publish the main sections of the report. They bring to life an invaluable, ground-breaking case-study of national significance. The case-study involved...
    World War II evacuation project - A living history experience

  • Helping Year 7 put some flesh on Roman bones

      Teaching History article
    Like many other history departments nationally, Ed Podesta and his colleagues face a daunting practical challenge: redesigning three years' historical learning so that it can fit into a compressed two-year Key Stage 3, whilst enhancing, rather than compromising, the quality of students' historical learning. Podesta's article reports the beginning of...
    Helping Year 7 put some flesh on Roman bones

  • Primary History 19

      Journal
    4 PRIMARY UPDATE 7 QCA REVIEW OF NATIONAL CURRICULUM IN HISTORY - GILL WATSON 8 PLANNING FOR HISTORY IN A CHANGING NATIONAL CURRICULUM - TIM LOMAS 10 HISTORYAND THE LITERACY HOUR-THREAT OR CHALLENGE? GRANT BAGE AND ANDREW WRENN 11 HISTORY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - KATHERINE NORRIS 15 WHY ON EARTH...
    Primary History 19

  • Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘Some primary schools are like the High Street in many of our towns. I can predict what I will see before I go through the door. What I want to see is something that gives me...
    Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?

  • Using feature films as a means of enhancing history teaching in the primary school

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Although I have always been fascinated by history and almost took it as my major subject at university, I have to admit that the bulk of my ‘knowledge' about historical people and events was shaped...
    Using feature films as a means of enhancing history teaching in the primary school

  • Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter

      Teaching History article
    Lomas and Wrenn, co-authors and compilers of the Historical Association’s DfES-funded T.E.A.C.H 3-19 Report (Teaching Emotive and Controversial History), explore further ideas and examples of good practice from issues arising out of the report’s conclusions. Lomas and Wrenn propose five distinct categories of emotive and controversial history that further develop...
    Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter

  • The Stone Age conundrum

      Making use of a local site to develop historical knowledge
    History – the very word makes the primary teacher in me feel excited. There are simply so many variables, so many dark nooks and crannies of history to explore and so many different angles through which to draw in a class of eager young minds. Thanks to a wellexecuted history...
    The Stone Age conundrum

  • What do you think? Using online forums to improve students' historical knowledge and understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In Teaching History 126, the Open University's Arguing in History project team demonstrated the power that discussion fora can have to develop pupil thinking. In this article, Dave Martin revisits this theme through a discussion...
    What do you think? Using online forums to improve students' historical knowledge and understanding