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  • Dean Mahomet: Travel writer, curry entrepreneur and shampooer to the King

      Historian article
    The National Portrait Gallery in London is home to many thousands of portraits, photographs and sculptures of the great and the good, as well as those who travelled on the darker side of history. In 2007 it hosted a small exhibition in the Porter Gallery entitled Between Worlds: Voyagers to...
    Dean Mahomet: Travel writer, curry entrepreneur and shampooer to the King

  • 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 It also raised new questions about the management of historical content....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

  • In My View: Migration - the search for a better life

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Migration is not new. The movement of people has been part of defining cultures throughout history. Asylum seekers could be seen as the thin (contemporary) end of this historical wedge. But is the...
    In My View: Migration - the search for a better life

  • The Reign of Edward VI: An Historiographical Survey

      Article
    The modern historiography of this critical and disturbed six year period begins with the work of W.K. Jordan. Jordan was already a well established authority on the history of English philanthropy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, when he turned his attention specifically to Edward VI in the mid-1960s.
    The Reign of Edward VI: An Historiographical Survey

  • Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Phyllis Wheatley already seems to be the most effective teacher in the department. How can her mentor ensure that she goes on learning? Phyllis Wheatley is several weeks into her second placement and her mentor, Selina, is acutely aware of how impressive her teaching is already. A degree in...
    Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

  • A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many of us would love to have the problems encountered by Oliver Knight at his previous school. His students were simply doing too well - leaving him wondering how to stretch them to the limit...
    A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE

  • Into the Key Stage 3 history garden: choosing and planting your enquiry questions

      Teaching History article
    Drawing upon a range of practice, Michael Riley analyses the characteristics of a good enquiry question. He explores the importance of careful wording of the question if it is genuinely to help the teacher to integrate areas of content into a purposeful learning journey and without distortion.He then moves on...
    Into the Key Stage 3 history garden: choosing and planting your enquiry questions

  • Cunning Plan 109: teaching the French Revolution to Year 12

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' focuses on teaching Year 12 the French Revolution.
    Cunning Plan 109: teaching the French Revolution to Year 12

  • 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

  • The hidden crisis in GCSE History

      Teaching History article
    Joining the debate launched in the last edition, John Dixon argues that in relation to competing subjects, history has become harder. He believes that this could be reviewed without loss of standards. He highlights what he sees as a perverse situation of conflicting trends: on the one hand, practice in...
    The hidden crisis in GCSE History

  • Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

      Teaching History feature
    It was the brainwave of the English department to bring in a script writer to work with Key Stage 3 students of the full ability range writing the lower school production. This was too good an opportunity for the history department to miss.
    Triumphs Show 108: Getting the whole school buzzing about history

  • From tragedy to triumph: The courage of Henrietta, Lady of Luxborough 1699-1756

      Historian article
    Why is Henrietta Luxborough, who was born in 1699, of interest today? In the first place because of whom she was; in the second because of what happened to her; and in the third because of her courage which enabled her to overcome adversity and lead a life utterly different...
    From tragedy to triumph: The courage of Henrietta, Lady of Luxborough 1699-1756

  • Developing conceptual understanding through talk mapping

      Teaching History article
    As history teachers, we talk about concepts all the time. We know that pupils need to understand them in order to make sense of the past. Precisely what we mean when we talk about concepts is less clear, however. Research into how history teachers talk about their practice suggests that,...
    Developing conceptual understanding through talk mapping

  • Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom

      Teaching History feature
    Big ideas, making connections, citizenship, thinking skills. We were nothing if not ambitious in our planning for this unit for a lower attaining Year 8 group at Langley School in Solihull. Having identified the big ideas which could underpin a dialogue between history and citizenship and make the connections between...
    Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom

  • The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Handing back Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997 - Andrew Whitfield (Read article) Elizabeth I - Susan Doran Western Dress and Ambivelence in the South Pacific - Michael Sturma (Read article) The Middle East in WWII and the British Co-operation with the Zionist Agency - Nicholas Hammond Painted Advertisements...
    The Historian 54: The handing back of Hong Kong

  • Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Science Museum in South Kensington, London is accessible through its website as well as through visiting the building itself and this article considers how history teachers can gain from using the collection and resources...
    Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners?

  • Louis, John, and William: the 'Dame Europa' pamphlets, 1870-1871

      Article
    The pamphlet printing industry in England received an unexpected boost in 1871 with the appearance of numerous works written, mainly, as commentaries, satires or allegories in Britain’s attitude regarding the Franco-Prussian War. The cause of this deluge was one particular tract, first issued on Salisbury in October 1870, whose purpose...
    Louis, John, and William: the 'Dame Europa' pamphlets, 1870-1871

  • Catherine de' Medici and the French Wars of Religion

      Article
    R. J. Knecht suggests that the 'Black Legend' may not be quite as unfair to Catherine as her defenders have argued. Few historical figures have aroused as much passionate controversy as Catherine de’ Medici who was queen of France from 1547 until 1559 and several times regent before her death...
    Catherine de' Medici and the French Wars of Religion

  • 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

  • Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupils in England have an entitlement to study history or geography until the age of sixteen. However, increasingly, some pupils seem to be discouraged from taking up this opportunity as it can be seen as...
    Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

  • The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Napoleon III - only one article of this journal remains. Open the attachment below to read the article.
    The Historian 52: Napoleon III and the French Second Empire

  • Cooperative Learning: the place of pupil involvement in a history textbook

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupil involvement is at the heart of every good history lesson. Its planning ensures that pupils are given the opportunity to think for themselves, share ideas, discuss evidence and debate points. The history education community...
    Cooperative Learning: the place of pupil involvement in a history textbook

  • Building and assessing learner autonomy within the Key Stage 3 history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Oliver Knight is an experienced Advanced Skills Teacher who has taught in four different secondary schools, three of them multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-cultural and at least two wrestling with significant problems arising from social deprivation....
    Building and assessing learner autonomy within the Key Stage 3 history classroom

  • The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions

      Article
    Dr Michael Bush investigates the interpretations of the pilgrimage of grace. Our perception of the pilgrimage of grace has been largely created by Madeleine and Ruth Dodds and their magnificent book The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-7, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 (Cambridge). Published in 1915, it has dominated the subject...
    The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions

  • Teaching The Indus Valley Civilisation in the 21st Century

      Primary History article
    This article discusses how mathematical concepts, literacy requirements and other areas of the curriculum can be harnessed to promote meaningful historical enquiry and understanding. This is especially so for a history topic which lends itself to enquiry based learning, scrutiny of every little clue, and speculation about the very many...
    Teaching The Indus Valley Civilisation in the 21st Century