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  • 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

  • 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

  • Making pupils want to explain: using Movie Maker to foster thoroughness and self-monitoring

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Sally Burnham shares her practice and reflections on the value of the software, ‘Movie Maker', for developing particular aspects of historical thinking and learning. In Teaching History 130, in the context of her Key Stage...
    Making pupils want to explain: using Movie Maker to foster thoroughness and self-monitoring

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

      Article
    Isobel Jenkins and Mike Turpin answer some of those basic questions which many history teachers are afraid to ask, like ‘What exactly is it anyway?' and ‘Is this really worth my valuable time?' They outline the internet's value as a means of improving information access and as a way of...
    Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

  • History using information technology: past, present and future

      Article
    Alaric Dickinson gives an overview of recent developments in the teaching of history using ICT and relates these to different contexts. He examines the appeal of the History Using IT materials and places these in the context of earlier developments. He also considers the role of ICT in the context...
    History using information technology: past, present and future

  • The Historian 125: Magna Carta

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    All the linked individual articles in this edition are available open-access. 4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 The making of Magna Carta - Sophie Ambler (Read Article) 12 Magna Carta: oblivion and revival -  Nicholas Vincent (Read Article) 15 The President's Column 16 Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to ‘freeborn...
    The Historian 125: Magna Carta

  • The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 Two babies that could have changed world history - Geoffrey Chamberlain MD (Read article) 12 The origins of the local government service - Kenneth Poole (Read article) 22 ‘Spy fever’ in Britain, 1900 to 1914 - James Hampshire (Read article) 28 Why did the Dome Fail? - Lucy...
    The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!

  • Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?

      Historian article
    In this new, occasional section of The Historian, contributors share their thoughts on matters of public historical debate. We invite our readers to respond, either by writing to the editors at thehistorian@history.org.uk or by writing their own opinion piece. Here, Lorenzo Kamel shares his thoughts on why saying ‘he was a...
    Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?

  • The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945

      Historian article
    Throughout the Second World War the BBC produced and transmitted regular broadcasts in German to Germany and other European countries occupied by the Germans. In this article Hattie Simpson evaluates the style and success of the BBC German Service. The article is based on her winning entry in the senior...
    The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945

  • Teaching History 53

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Multiculturalism and the Lower School History Syllabus: Towards a Practical Approach. - Paul Goalen 8 Using Audio-Visual Media with Slow Learners: A New Approach in History - Keith Hodgkinson 17 New History and Media Education - Derek McKiernan 20 Local History Studies in the Classroom...
    Teaching History 53

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the ‘no-quick-fix’
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll find something better: conversations in which history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

  • Case Study: Teaching World War 1 and professional development

      Primary History case study
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. During the autumn term 2008 I covered World War I as an example of how to attempt a cross curricular project at KS 2 [7-11 age range] with Newly Qualified Teacher Status [QTS] students. During my...
    Case Study: Teaching World War 1 and professional development

  • From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

      Teaching History article
    Tim Jenner was working on a causation enquiry with his Year 7 students when he noticed that weak conceptions of change were limiting their ability to produce powerful and period-sensitive arguments. He therefore decided to digress into a temporary but explicit focus on analysing historical change. He created a deceptively...
    From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

  • What time does the tune start? From thinking about 'sense of period' to modelling history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A ‘sense of period' is the contextual backdrop to the study of any aspect of history. As experienced historians, we tend to take for granted both our structural map of the past and our rich...
    What time does the tune start? From thinking about 'sense of period' to modelling history at Key Stage 3

  • Power, authority and geography

      Teaching History article
    Dissatisfied by her previous enquiries on medieval kingship and inspired by Helen Castor’s 'She-Wolves', Elizabeth Carr sought to incorporate the stories of powerful medieval women such as Empress Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine into her Key Stage 3 curriculum. Carr used these stories to highlight to her pupils the crucial...
    Power, authority and geography

  • What’s the wisdom on… Interpretations of the past

      Teaching History feature
    How often do your pupils actually look at the products of historians – their scholarly writing, their debates, their to-and-fro of argument? What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of...
    What’s the wisdom on… Interpretations of the past

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing

      Teaching History feature
    Writing history is hard! But the things that make it challenging are the things that make it worth doing. They are also the key to enabling all students to write, to embrace the challenge and to enjoy its rewards enough to keep going. A big mistake is to kid ourselves...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing

  • Opportunities, challenges and questions: continual assessment in Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Our means of assessment might pose a problem. History teachers regularly set specific targets, with implicit or explicit reference to National Curriculum Levels, which are designed to move our pupils on and make them better historians. How, though, are we to prevent them from achieving their targets in a rather...
    Opportunities, challenges and questions: continual assessment in Year 9

  • ‘Weaving’ knowledge

      Teaching History article
    Diane Relf was concerned by what felt like an unbridgeable gulf between Year 7’s vocabulary and comprehension, and her aspirations both for their inclusion in history and their later academic success. As a subject leader without the benefit of any history-specific training at the start of her career, she embarked on...
    ‘Weaving’ knowledge

  • Using visual sources to generate conversation

      Teaching History article
    Jane Card has long been fascinated by the power of visual sources to stimulate pupil thought and discussion. In previous articles she has shared insights from her own expert practice, fusing deep subject knowledge with careful planning to generate highly skilful questioning. Here she presents another rich example of classroom...
    Using visual sources to generate conversation