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  • Trees

      Primary History article
    This article includes a compilation of a series of articles about significant trees around Britain. It is hoped that this will prompt readers to explore their own environments, helping children to engage with and enjoy nature. Some of the trees in the article are designated as Great Trees. These were significant...
    Trees

  • The potential of secondary history to respond to the current ecological and climate crisis

      Teaching History article
    In this article Michael Riley and Alison Kitson seek to unlock the potential of the secondary history curriculum to educate young people about the current ecological and climate crisis in ways that might also inform their thinking about how to create a more sustainable future. The article (which mirrors a parallel...
    The potential of secondary history to respond to the current ecological and climate crisis

  • The Elizabeth cake

      Primary History article
    Hidden away on top of a dusty, battered cupboard in a local primary school were two equally dusty and battered log books. Each has seen better days and each could provide a range of links to local and national history. The log book was one of two found in one...
    The Elizabeth cake

  • The Phoney War: teaching WWII

      Primary History article
    The term ‘phoney war’ refers to the period at the beginning of WWII between September 1939 and April 1940 when there was little fighting. It was brought to an abrupt end by the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. The term is thought to have been coined by an...
    The Phoney War: teaching WWII

  • A Commercial Revolution

      Classic Pamphlet
    The pattern of overseas trade is always in movement: new commodities are constantly appearing, old ones fading into unimportance, different trading partners coming to the fore-front. But between the latter end of the sixteenth and the second half of the eighteenth century, change took specially far reaching forms. In 1570...
    A Commercial Revolution

  • Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’?

      Teaching History article
    Maya Stiasny was faced with difficulties familiar to many of us. Her new Year 12 students were struggling to get to grips with a new period of history. They were not interrogating primary sources with sufficient vigour. Her solution, detailed here, was novel. Working on the rich social history of post-war...
    Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’?

  • Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2

      Primary History article
    The Key Stage 2 Primary History Curriculum sets ambitious challenges for pupils: "…They should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance. They should construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information. They should understand how our knowledge...
    Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2

  • Year 9 face up to historical difference

      Teaching History article
    How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference Teaching her Key Stage 3 students in Essex, Catherine McCrory was struck by the stark contrast between their enthusiasm for studying diverse histories of Africa and the Americas and their reluctance to...
    Year 9 face up to historical difference

  • Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

      Teaching History article
    When Will Bailey-Watson (a history ITE tutor) and Charlie Crouch (a history PhD student) worked together to improve a history undergraduate course at their university, they realised that the benefits of collaboration between teachers and historians can flow both ways. In this article they offer an account of how they sought...
    Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

  • The International Journal Volume 14, Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial and Editorial Review pp 5–12 National, International, Local And Regional History Curricula – Issues And Concerns pp 16–66 Australia pp 16–27 Resisting The Regime: An Insider’s View Of Australian History Education 2006–2014 Tony Taylor, University of Technology Sydney/Federation University Australia, Ultimo, Sydney/Churchill, Victoria Greece pp 28–54 The Traumatic Memory...
    The International Journal Volume 14, Number 1

  • Charles XII

      Classic Pamphlet
    The reputation of Charles XII who became king of Sweden before he was fifteen years old and had the responsibility of absolutist goverment thrust upon him within the next six months - contrary to the plans laid down for him by his father - has tended to attract political rather...
    Charles XII

  • Powerful Pedagogy

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The introduction of National Curriculum History in England as a statutory subject in 1989/90 faced primary teachers with a major challenge of how to teach a de facto new subject. The Nuffield Foundation funded a curriculum...
    Powerful Pedagogy

  • Principles for a history curriculum

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In the mid 1990s the Nuffield Foundation funded the development of a primary history curriculum for Yaroslavl in Russia. It was a contemporary curriculum, choosing issues and concepts of central concern to contemporary society and studying their...
    Principles for a history curriculum

  • Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire

      Teaching History article
    Ollie Barnes encountered Hong Kong history on honeymoon and, powerfully, in the classroom in Nottinghamshire. Historical changes in the former colony’s present had resulted in increasing numbers of Hong Kongers arriving in school. This history demanded attention – important historical changes were in process and pupils needed to understand them....
    Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

      Journal
    Jannet van Drie and Carla van BoxtelEnhancing Collaborative Historical Reasoning by Providing Representational Guidance   Nadine Fink  Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching   Alan HodkinsonMaturation and the Assimilation of the Concepts of Historical Time: a Symbiotic Relationship, or Uneasy Bedfellows? An Examination of the Birth-Date Effect on Educational...
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

  • Empires of Gold

      Historian article
    In 1660, the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa was established under the leadership of Charles II's brother James, the Duke of York. Founded as a slaving company, the Royal African Company, as it became known, also traded in gold. African gold was mined in the interior before being...
    Empires of Gold

  • Key Stage 1 local history through fresh eyes

      Primary History article
    Upon approaching this article on teaching the local history component of the National Curriculum for Key Stage 1 I decided to focus on one school, to look at what they normally deliver, and to put forward suggestions that could be used to enhance their existing unit of study. I visited Pencoys...
    Key Stage 1 local history through fresh eyes

  • Cunning Plan 185… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design

      Teaching History feature
    Many history teachers have been busy making space in their curriculum plans for different sorts of histories. This process, as Priyamavda Gopal has argued (in response to claims that moves to decolonise the curriculum constitute an attempt to censor history by editing out those bits viewed as ‘stains’ on the nation’s...
    Cunning Plan 185… for building difference into GCSE curriculum design

  • From Home to the Front: World War I

      Primary History article
    Events which encapsulate family, community, national and global history provide rich opportunities for engaging children. Some of these draw on positive memories associated with past events: the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, how people responded to the first flight to the moon, the Millennium celebrations. Yet it is perhaps gruelling...
    From Home to the Front: World War I

  • 'Doing Local History' through maps and drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: John Fines produced two case studies of Local History for the Nuffield Primary History Project. One on them is published here for the first time.
    'Doing Local History' through maps and drama

  • Teaching History 193: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 193: Mediating History David Lowenthal writes that history is both less than and more than the past. It is less because ‘only a tiny fraction of all that has happened can ever be recovered and recounted’.1 Yet it is also more because ‘it is a new and...
    Teaching History 193: Out now

  • Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey and Helen Snelson, who have both worked for many years in initial teacher education, wanted to find ways of supporting recently qualified teachers in continuing to develop their practice. Working in two different parts of the country, they established different kinds of informal, but well-focused history-specific, support groups....
    Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

  • Teaching History 192: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 192: Breadth If the length of a curriculum relates to how long it lasts – to its duration in classroom time and to the volume of historical time it covers – then curricular breadth refers us to the number and the variety of the dimensions of human...
    Teaching History 192: Out now

  • Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

      Article
    Working in a small rural primary school in North Gloucestershire I was inspired by national news reports from Iraq to change the focus of our Ancient History study from Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, ‘the land between the rivers'. A study of this region of the Middle East fulfilled so many...
    Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

  • Ideas for Assemblies: the role of the international community in the First World War

      Article
    As part of our First World War centenary-themed assemblies, in the last issue of Primary History we focused on the importance of the local dimension. Here we have chosen to look at the role of the international community in the First World War. This approach reflects and celebrates our multi-cultural...
    Ideas for Assemblies: the role of the international community in the First World War