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  • Using the back cover image: Reconstructing the Romans

      Primary History feature
    Reconstruction drawings, diagrams and models are vital examples of interpretation that we can use to help pupils understand the past. On one level they help to fire imagination, while on another they offer a way of presenting important historical facts. The image overleaf is a reconstruction drawing of Chester's Roman...
    Using the back cover image: Reconstructing the Romans

  • The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain

      Primary History article
    Before the Romans arrived the islands which now make up Britain were populated with a variety of relatively large and small fortified or defended settlements. The people living here were usually part of tribes or clans and they probably raided each other's territory for cattle and other animals. The majority of people farmed in some way,...
    The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain

  • Local People and Places in the Early Years

      Article
    Learning in the Early Years through Local People and Places: developing historical concepts in the Early Years Foundation Stage Using the local environment as a starting point for historical learning in EYFS not only helps young children engage and make learning meaningful and relevant, but also helps them develop a strong sense of identity. Working...
    Local People and Places in the Early Years

  • Out and about in the East Yorkshire Wolds

      Historian feature
    East Yorkshire is a somewhat neglected area for touring. Yet, the villages in the chalk Wolds possess much charm and a lot of surprising history to reward those who would explore them. In my youth, I toured these villages many times both on foot and by bicycle. This route is...
    Out and about in the East Yorkshire Wolds

  • 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

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles included in this edition:  Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

  • The Historian 51

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 9 Brasses and History (The 1707 Act of Union) - Christopher Whatley 14 Local Authority Record Offices: Our Heritage at Risk - Rosemary Dunhill (Read article) 16 The Eighteenth century in Britain: long or short? W.A. Speck  20 Football and British-Soviet relations: The Moscow Dynamo and Moscow Spartak tours of 1945...
    The Historian 51

  • The International Journal Volume 5 Number 1

      Journal
    François AudigierHistory in the Curriculum   Nadine Fink Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching    Philippe HaeberliRelating to History: an Empirical Typology   Peter LeeHistorical Literacy   Keith Barton and Alan W. McCullyLearning History and Inheriting the Past: the Interaction of School and Community Perspectives in Northern Ireland  ...
    The International Journal Volume 5 Number 1

  • The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham's article in Teaching History 92, ‘Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning to build a substantiated argument in Year 7' has influenced much debate about extended writing. It has been influential way beyond the history education community. It also raised new questions about the management of historical content....
    The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

  • Place-names and the National Curriculum for History

      Primary History article
    Place-names, such as house or school names, are infinite in number and all around us. Every place-name may convey a message about the place. Often place-names record and celebrate local and national people, events and incidents, define what a place looked like in the past and how we used to...
    Place-names and the National Curriculum for History

  • The Historian 75: Keats' Deathbed Companion

      Article
    Featured articles: 6 Whigs, Tories, East Indiamen and rogues: the history of Parliament, 1690-1715 – Paul Seaward  11 Kingship and Authorship: History and Royalty in the Crown of Aragon – Suzanne F. Cawsey 19 The Wizard Earl of Northumberland: an Elizabethan scholar-nobleman – Gordon Batho 25 Keats' deathbed companion: in...
    The Historian 75: Keats' Deathbed Companion

  • The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas

      Primary History article
    Obscured by the fame of the Aztec empire or shrouded by a veil of mystery, the cultural history of the Maya has generally been misunderstood by the British public. Maya civilisation developed in a territory the size of Germany and Denmark together (nearly 400,000 km2). This vast territory shows three...
    The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas

  • Primary history through the secondary school lens

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Trying to explain what pupils at primary school should know and understand about history to help their progress at secondary school is an extremely tricky question to answer (so thanks Jon!). Ultimately there are...
    Primary history through the secondary school lens

  • 'But why then?' Chronological context and historical interpretations

      Teaching History article
    When Michael Fordham was introduced to Dr Seuss's Butter Battle Book he immediately recognised its potential value in the classroom as a popular interpretation of the Cold War. Wanting his Year 9 pupils to explain how and why the past has been interpreted in different ways he shows the potential pitfalls...
    'But why then?' Chronological context and historical interpretations

  • Triumphs Show 156: Fresh perspectives on the First World War

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Year 9 think they know a lot about the First World War. After all, they read Michael Morpurgo's novel Private Peaceful in their English lessons all the way back in Year 7, they've seen Blackadder so many times they can recite it, and in the centenary year of the war's...
    Triumphs Show 156: Fresh perspectives on the First World War

  • The Historian 23

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Women in the Two World Wars, Penny Summer 10 Update: Modern India; Imperialism and Nationalism 1880 1947, Judith M Brown 13 Record Linkage: Heraldry and the Historian, Adrian Ailes 20 Anniversary: 150 Years of Photography
    The Historian 23

  • 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

  • A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. There are many effective ways of using artefacts and resources for the Victorians, but how many teachers have considered using the rubbish that the Victorians literally threw away? This material can cost nothing or be...
    A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

  • Saint Robert and the Deer

      Article
    It is almost a commonplace that there is an affinity between a holy man and the creatures of the wild. The archetype is St. Francis of Assisi but the phenomenon was well marked both before and after his time. I would like to consider briefly an episode in the life...
    Saint Robert and the Deer

  • D-Day, Commemorations - the last big year to remember?

      Historian article
    This year it was the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The world's politicians and media went into overdrive about it. The BBC dedicated a whole day to the coverage, mainly live from Normandy while small events took place around the UK. For a whole day the upcoming centenary of the First...
    D-Day, Commemorations - the last big year to remember?

  • Britain from the Iron Age to Robin Hood

      Primary History article
    ‘...if children are to ever fully appreciate history the development of historical time has to be central to our teaching methodologies' This lesson aims to provide an overview of this period, developing pupils' sense of chronology and their understanding of cause and consequence. The context for these ideas comes from...
    Britain from the Iron Age to Robin Hood

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Historical Consciousness, Teaching and Understanding History    Articles Peter Lee'Walking backwards into tomorrow' Historical consciousness and understanding history   Robert Guyver and Jon NicholFrom Novice to effective Teacher: a Study of Postgraduate Training and History Pedagogy
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

  • The Historian 69: Don't Blame the Messengers

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 The adventures of Peter Porcupine: William Cobbett in the United States, 1792-1800 - Noel Thompson 9 Don't Blame the Messengers: News Agencies Past and Present 16 ‘The War against God': Napoleon, Pope Pius VII and the People of Italy, 1800-1814. 22 Squalor and rough justice in Watford
    The Historian 69: Don't Blame the Messengers

  • The Historian 22

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Palmerston, Man of Paradox, Muriel E. Chamberlain 10 Interpretation: Emperor Hirohito and Japanese History, Alan G.R. Smith 12 Local History: Vernacular Architecture and its Study, R. W. Brunskill 16 Update: The Crusades, Malcolm Bather 19 Education Forum: History 1989, Reform or Reaction, Christine Lloyd 20 Portfolio: Sinews of Wan Royalist Finances...
    The Historian 22

  • 'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes

      Article
    Notwithstanding the tribal hatred recently shown for each other by a handful of English and Turkish football fanatics, nobody who has travelled in Turkey or taken a holiday in that country can have failed to notice the courtesy and generosity with which visitors are invariably treated. Indeed, one of the...
    'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes