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  • Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

      Teaching History article
    David Nicholls summarises some of the problems facing history education and offers a commentary on various cases for reform. He argues that we need to look at provision holistically from 5 to 21 and urges collaboration across phases and sectors. By working more closely together, the history community as a...
    Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

  • Creativity, Imagination, and Fun in Primary History

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content, references and links are outdated. Tim Lomas describes a variety of learning activities that primary schools children enjoy.
    Creativity, Imagination, and Fun in Primary History

  • Using the back cover image: Communications

      Primary History feature
    Exploring the everyday objects that shaped our lives in the not too distant past can prove to be exciting historical challenges for primary age children. While we might remember or be familiar with the objects and their use, they can provide confusion for children. This is in part because of...
    Using the back cover image: Communications

  • Beyond slavery

      Teaching History article
    Influenced by her own experiences, preliminary research, and recent political events, Teni Oladehin sought to thoroughly review how Black history was introduced to her students at Key Stage 3. In particular, she aimed to introduce Black history with an ‘authentic’ narrative which brought Black agency into the foreground. In this article, Oladehin shows how an enquiry on the significance of Mansa Musa both...
    Beyond slavery

  • Triumphs Show 144: Active learning to engage ‘challenging students'

      Teaching History feature
    Active learning to engage and challenge ‘challenging students' Historical significance may have been the ‘forgotten element' in 2002 when Rob Phillips first offered us the acronym ‘GREAT', but it has been seized upon with enthusiasm by the history education community. Christine Counsell's now famous five ‘R's (remarkable, remembered, resonant, resulting...
    Triumphs Show 144: Active learning to engage ‘challenging students'

  • The Historian 161: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 161: The Silk Roads Although the term ‘the Silk Roads’ was coined over 150 years ago, it has found new resonance with historians interested in a broader, international history, part of the ‘global turn’ in the discipline. The contributions to this issue arise from a research collaboration...
    The Historian 161: Out now

  • Teaching about ‘these islands’ since 1066

      Primary History article
    This article builds on an earlier publication in Primary History Issue 89 which considered the history of ‘these islands’ before 1066 in the primary history curriculum. Both articles address the first aim of the National Curriculum which indicates that children should:  know and understand the history of these islands as...
    Teaching about ‘these islands’ since 1066

  • Beyond the boundaries of the Lake District

      Historian article
    This article responds to recent changes in the size and status of the Lake District National Park by considering the historical interconnectedness of the Lake District with the region that surrounds it. Drawing on visual and verbal responses to the landscape of the Lakes region, Christopher Donaldson reveals how historical...
    Beyond the boundaries of the Lake District

  • Decolonising sources: helping Year 9 pupils critically evaluate colonial sources

      Teaching History article
    Danielle Donaldson’s history department was already working within a professional culture that sought opportunities for making the history curriculum diverse and representative. Responding to wider debates within and beyond the history education community, however, the department began to ask fresh questions about what it meant to decolonise a curriculum. Donaldson...
    Decolonising sources: helping Year 9 pupils critically evaluate colonial sources

  • IJHLTR International Journal Volume 15, Number 1

      The International Journal of History Learning and Teaching
    Editorial pp. 5–7Editorial: Identity, Nationalism And Thinking Historically France pp. 8–23Anna Zadora, University of Strasbourg, FranceHistory Teaching In Belarus: Between Europe And Asia Brazil pp. 24–33 Maria Auxiliadora Schmidt, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil The History Of Afro-Brazilian People: A Theme Of The Burdening History Of Brazil Canada pp....
    IJHLTR International Journal Volume 15, Number 1

  • Teaching History 56

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 8 History Across the Primary Secondary Divide - Pat Lackenby and Mel French  14 Evacuation - Fifty Years On - Rob David and the Evacuation Project Team  18 A Fourth Year B.Ed Student asks some questions - Kay Clarke  20 Women's History and Children's perception of gender - Fiona Terry  25 Grasping the...
    Teaching History 56

  • Archaeology on the edge

      Historian article
    Major archaeological projects can be complex affairs, in terms of their funding, governance and the wide range of historical and technological expertise they require. Here National Trust archaeologist Kathy Laws describes the intricacies and successes of a multi-organisational project at an Iron Age site in north Wales. The challenges of the...
    Archaeology on the edge

  • Connecting poetry, philosophy and landscapes in Ancient China

      Historian article
    It is unusual for historians to focus primarily on poetry to provide insights into the past societies they are studying. Here Nicholas Tyldesley explains the value of poetry to help us understand the ideas, values and some important historical events in Ancient China, with a particular focus on poets Li...
    Connecting poetry, philosophy and landscapes in Ancient China

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Old Wine, New Bottles : National Identity, Citizenship and the History Curriculum for the 21st Century   Articles Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: Re-Shaping Our Pasts. The Influence of Primary School Teachers' Knowledge and Understanding of History on Curriculum Planning and Implementation.     Laura Capita,...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1

  • Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front

      Teaching History article
    Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front to help pupils take a more critical approach to what they encounter The first year of the government's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme is now under way, allowing increasing numbers of students from across Britain...
    Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front

  • Emerging historians in the outdoors

      Primary History article
    I love history and I love the outdoors. I often find myself wondering who has walked down the same worn cobbled path, or climbed the same rickety stile. I am intrigued about a toy car I found in the garden, and speculate about who it might have belonged to. I...
    Emerging historians in the outdoors

  • A Significant Local Event: Carlisle floods

      Primary History article
    Sue Temple has used her personal experience of flooding around Carlisle as a basis for exploring local history. She suggests strategies for how we can explore events that have occurred in our own environments by making use of photos and oral history to link to the personal and immediate. As extreme...
    A Significant Local Event: Carlisle floods

  • Move Me On 102: Securing progression in historical understanding

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Tony is confused about Progression in historical understanding...
    Move Me On 102: Securing progression in historical understanding

  • Developing a big picture of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

      Primary History article
    ‘I have got to stop Mrs Jackson’s family arguing’: These were the words of a Year 3 pupil to her headteacher in reply to a simple question about what she was learning in history. What this pupil was doing was getting ‘a big picture’ of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings and...
    Developing a big picture of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

  • The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

      Article
    Helen Rawlings reviews the recent literature which has prompted a fundamental reappraisal of the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition — first established in 1478 in Castile under Queen Isabella I and suppressed in 1834 by Queen Isabella II — has left its indelible mark on the whole course of Spain’s...
    The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

  • Illuminating the possibilities of the past

      Teaching History article
    Claire Holliss reports here on the ways in which she has responded over time to the call to ‘do justice’ to the histories of those long neglected within the school curriculum.  Reflection on the need to ensure that the discipline of history remained central to any reform prompted her to...
    Illuminating the possibilities of the past

  • Whole-school planning for progression

      Primary History article
    The challenge for subject leaders and school leadership teams continues to be managing the tension between what history has to offer your vision for learning and your children's entitlement to a high-quality history education. The new national curriculum has ensured that this year you have had a close look at...
    Whole-school planning for progression

  • A scaffold, not a cage: progression and progression models in history

      Teaching History article
    The need to understand ways of defining progression in history becomes ever more pressing in the face of a target-setting, assessment-driven regime which requires us to measure progress at every turn. We must defend our professional expertise in terms of measurable outcomes. Did we add value? Have our end of...
    A scaffold, not a cage: progression and progression models in history

  • Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

      Teaching History article
    Alex Alcoe was concerned that mastery of certain keywords and question formulae at GCSE perhaps obscured fundamental gaps in his students’ understanding of the nature of causation. These gaps were revealed when he invited Year 12 students to make explicit, by annotating a diagram, their understanding of the relationship between...
    Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

  • The Historian 126: The Battle of Waterloo

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 The Battle of Waterloo: Sunday 18 June 1815 - John Morewood (Read Article) 13 News from 59a 14 Scum of the earth - or fine fellows? The British soldier in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars - Carole Divall (Read Article) 19 The President's Column 20 Medical...
    The Historian 126: The Battle of Waterloo