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  • Enduring Civilisation: cities and citizens in the ‘Aztec Empire’

      Historian article
    Katherine Bellamy explores the cities and citizens at the heart of the so-called ‘Aztec Empire’, a vast and complex network of distinct indigenous communities who endured despite Spanish colonisation. The term ‘civilisation’ is derived from the Latin, civilis (civil), and closely connected to civitas (city) and civis (citizen). The cities...
    Enduring Civilisation: cities and citizens in the ‘Aztec Empire’

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 152: Describing Progression

      Teaching History feature
    'New, Novice or Nervous?' is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 152: Describing Progression

  • Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13

      Teaching History article
    Thinking skills’ is a term that has been substantially over-used. It often seems to be rather a lazy shorthand for justifying the teaching of history by suddenly bolting on some ‘thinking’ - as if history is not all about thought in the first place. Arthur Chapman suggests using techniques from...
    Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13

  • Inventing race? Using primary sources to investigate the origins of racial thinking in the past

      Teaching History article
    Having been given some additional curriculum time, Kerry Apps and her department made decisions about what had been missing in the previous curriculum diet. Building on an existing enquiry (in TH 176), Apps decided to focus on how and when the idea of race in its modern sense developed in early modern...
    Inventing race? Using primary sources to investigate the origins of racial thinking in the past

  • Learning to engage with documents through role play

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. First let me say that I did not research the materials used or plan this lesson. For this I must acknowledge, with thanks, that this is the work of my colleague, Mike Huggins, and the senior...
    Learning to engage with documents through role play

  • Tracking pupil progress

      Primary History article
    Assessment issues crop up with regularity in the pages of this journal. They have also been mentioned frequently in inspections and in the schools assessed for the Quality Mark. The problem with some of the recommendations is that they anticipate massive amounts of time and energy being devoted to it...
    Tracking pupil progress

  • Planning with literacy

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History is a subject which of necessity makes extensive use of language in all its forms and so the links with literacy are many. Cooper (2000), Bage (1999), Hoodless (1998) and Nichol, in the Nuffield History...
    Planning with literacy

  • Teaching History 42

      Journal
    Editorial 2 History: A Most Crucial Element of the Curriculum, Gordon Batho 3 Report: Archives and Education in London 5 Towards a Nationally Agreed Framework I or the Teaching of Primary School History, T.D. Cook 6 Teaching Teachers: A Secondary History PGCE Course, Keith Jenkins 9 Bringing in the Horse,...
    Teaching History 42

  • Out and About in Oxford

      Historian feature
    The Sheffield Branch of the Historical Association is a very active one. In addition to our monthly meetings we organise a range of study visits, from one-day trips to longer residential tours in the UK and occasionally in mainland Europe. In recent years, these have included visits to Portsmouth, Lincoln and Newark, Newcastle and Northumberland, and the battlefields of Waterloo....
    Out and About in Oxford

  • Connecting past and present through the lens of enduring human issues: International Women’s Day protests

      Teaching History article
    While studying for his master’s degree in education, Arthur Casey became intrigued by research suggesting that analogies comparing past and present might improve students’ perceptions of the relevance of history. In this article he reports on the findings of his own small-scale research study, in which he used a present-day...
    Connecting past and present through the lens of enduring human issues: International Women’s Day protests

  • Polychronicon 160: Interpreting 'The Birth of a Nation'

      Teaching History feature
    Controversial from the first year of its release in 1915, 'The Birth of a Nation' has been hailed as both the greatest film ever made and the most racist. On 8 February 1915, it premiered in Los Angeles as 'The Clansman', the name of the novel and play upon which...
    Polychronicon 160: Interpreting 'The Birth of a Nation'

  • Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies

  • A need to know: Islamic history and the school curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Nicolas Kinloch questions some of the principal justifications often advanced for teaching Islamic history in schools. In particular, he wants to move us beyond our concern with current events in the Middle East. He suggests that there are dangers in looking at Islamic history if it is...
    A need to know: Islamic history and the school curriculum

  • Making rigour a departmental reality

      Teaching History article
    Faced with the introduction of a two-year key stage and a new whole-school assessment policy, Rachel Arscott and Tom Hinks decided to make a virtue out of necessity and reconsider their whole approach to planning, teaching and assessment at Key Stage 3. In this article they give an account of...
    Making rigour a departmental reality

  • Making links: Myths, legends and problem-solving with the Greeks

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Introduction: Meaningful links "Teachers will be able to make links within and across areas of learning to help children understand how each distinctive area links to and is supported by others." (Rose Chapter 2, 2.23) ‘Meaningful...
    Making links: Myths, legends and problem-solving with the Greeks

  • The Shang Dynasty

      Primary History article
    The Shang Dynasty of ancient China is a perfect topic to explore history alongside art and design. The only written information that remains from the Shang period is from the inscriptions found on oracle bones or artworks. Most of what we know about the Shang has been determined from the...
    The Shang Dynasty

  • Story telling: how can we imagine the past?

      Primary History article
    Story and its bedfellow narrative with their chronological spines are central to children ‘Doing History' and developing a sense of personal identity within a national context. Grant Bage raises the role of storytelling, using dramatic moments to develop understanding...
    Story telling: how can we imagine the past?

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Royal Studies

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Royal Studies’ is much more than the study of kings and queens as individuals. It draws in their families, the institution of monarchy and monarchical government, court studies, relationships with the church, artistic and literary patronage, and more. While history ‘from below’ and studies of non-elite figures have enriched the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Royal Studies

  • 'Didn't we do that in Year 7?' Planning for progress in evidential understanding

      Teaching History article
    Christine Counsell describes a lively activity, ideal for Year 9, in which pupils compare and interrelate a collection of sources. The activity leads pupils into thinking about the sources as a collection, and about the enquiry as an evidential problem. Or at least it can do. The article discusses the...
    'Didn't we do that in Year 7?' Planning for progress in evidential understanding

  • A View from the Classroom - Chronology

      Primary History feature
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As a teacher, the passing of time in a classroom may be: challenging, stimulating, appear endless, be subject to constant change, though never dull. Years pass, yet at times it can seem but yesterday, when I...
    A View from the Classroom - Chronology

  • The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs

      Article
    There should be no hesitancy doubting his existence R. G. Collingwood is remembered today as a philosopher, a man with a wide range of interests, the core of whose work is in the Idealist tradition. He died in 1943 and although his work has subsequently not been widely celebrated the...
    The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs

  • Developing transferable knowledge at A-level

      Teaching History article
    From a compartmentalised to a complicated past: developing transferable knowledge at A-level Students find it difficult to join up the different things they study into a complex account of the past. Examination specifications do not necessarily help with this because of the way in which history is divided up into...
    Developing transferable knowledge at A-level

  • Changing thinking about cause

      Article
    Aware both that causation is the bread and butter of the historian’s craft, and that trainee teachers find it far harder to teach well than they anticipate, Alex Ford sought to get to the heart of the problem with causation, especially at GCSE. When teaching to a specification and mark...
    Changing thinking about cause

  • Timelines and technology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Timelines are basic tools for developing knowledge and understandings about chronology, providing the frameworks and contexts for historical enquiry. Information and Communications Technology [ICT ] offers a range of tools for viewing [and creating timelines, ranging...
    Timelines and technology

  • Scene shifting: Using visuals for chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Vivid pictures from and of the past, its material culture, can be stimulating and effective tools for teaching chronology. Their use is not, however, straightforward. Children bring into school mental images and stereotypes about the past...
    Scene shifting: Using visuals for chronology