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  • Artefacts and art facts: images of Sir Francis Drake

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Editorial note: This article reveals the power of the Internet in helping us all, adults and children, to bring portraits like Drake's to life. So, as you read, follow the links.
    Artefacts and art facts: images of Sir Francis Drake

  • Triumphs Show 138: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle

      Teaching History feature
    Licking the stones: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle in 360 degrees This is the story of one history department that, in collaboration with a local historical site, embarked on a ‘curriculum co-development project' with the art department. The aim was to use learning experiences outside the classroom to bring...
    Triumphs Show 138: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle

  • Historical thinking and art education in Canada’s era of societal reckoning

      Teaching History article
    Michael Pitblado and Agnieszka Chalas, history teacher and art teacher respectively, describe how and why they responded to a call by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to engage students with difficult aspects of Canada’s past, including the forced cultural assimilation of Indigenous peoples through the Indian Residential School System. Having reflected...
    Historical thinking and art education in Canada’s era of societal reckoning

  • 1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses

      Article
    Ian Arthurson reasseses the Cornish rising of 1497 on its 500th anniversary. On the 400th anniversary of this rebellion there was a good deal of agreement about the Wars of the Roses: ‘The slaughter of people was greater than in any former war on English soil ... The standard of...
    1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses

  • The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners

      Article
    Featured articles: 4 The Unpredictable Rise of the Duke of Wellington by Neville Thompson 9 The Peninsula War: A Review of recent literature by Charles Esdaile 13 The defence of Britain's Eastern Empire after World War One by John Fisher 18 Mining Communities without Mines by Lucy Russell 23 The...
    The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners

  • The Historian 17

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Sir Robert Peel, 1788-1850, Asa Briggs 8 Education Forum: The National Curriculum — what sort of history? Martin Roberts and Donald Read 9 Update: Politics and Religion in Tudor England, Ralph Houlbrooke 
    The Historian 17

  • The Miraculous Crusade: The Role of the Mystical and Miraculous in the Morale and Motivation of the First Crusade

      Historian article
    The First Crusade may be considered the only really successful crusade in that it achieved its stated goal, but it demanded great courage and stamina of its participants in their journey to the Holy City of Jerusalem, fighting their way through an unforgiving hostile territory. But courage and stamina by...
    The Miraculous Crusade: The Role of the Mystical and Miraculous in the Morale and Motivation of the First Crusade

  • Drama and history: a theory for learning

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. When I visit primary schools these days it heartens me to see how often drama is used in classroom teaching. Looking back over my own career, drama and role play have always been...
    Drama and history: a theory for learning

  • The Historian 16

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Reflections on the Armada Campaign, A.N. Ryan 10 Europe: Adventure in Understanding, Frederic Delouche 11 Update: Women in America, Margaret Walsh 14 Education: History in Primary Schools, Ann Low-Beer 15 Eyewitness: Letters from Nuremberg, Ron Brooks
    The Historian 16

  • Polychronicon 116: The Roman Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' examines the study...
    Polychronicon 116: The Roman Empire

  • Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A trip to the battlefields of the First World War throws into stark relief the challenges presented by work on interpretations related to historical sites. Andrew Wrenn first drew attention to the difficulties of promoting...
    Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

  • Out and about in Martinsthorpe: a walk in the country

      Historian feature
    History is nothing if not an exercise in informed imagination. On a country walk in Rutland arranged by a group of (non-historian) friends, I noted that the Ordnance Survey map showed our planned route, following a ridge of high ground separating the valleys of the meandering Gwash and Chater rivers,...
    Out and about in Martinsthorpe: a walk in the country

  • Move Me On 175: paying attention to why topics have been included in schemes of work

      The problem page for history mentors
    This issue's problem: Martha Partington doesn't pay enough attention to the reasons why particular topics or approaches to them have been included with her department’s schemes of work...
    Move Me On 175: paying attention to why topics have been included in schemes of work

  • The Historian 65: Cooling Memories

      Article
    Featured articles: 4 From Ashes to Icon: The creation of the National Botanic Garden of Wales - Charles Stirton (Read article) 10 Wanted, The elusive Charlie Peace: A Sheffield killer of the 1870s as popular hero - Dr John Springhall (Read article) 17 Cooling memories: Why we still remember Scott...
    The Historian 65: Cooling Memories

  • The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997

      Article
    Andrew Whitfield examines the recovery of Hong Kong from the Japanese, 52 years before its return to China. As the clock ticks ever closer to midnight on 30 June 1997, the sun will set on Britain’s last major colonial outpost. Thousands of miles from the motherland, the colony originally acted...
    The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997

  • 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

  • Changes in an aspect of social history from 1945 to 2000: youth culture

      Primary History article
    A history-themed topic based around music is a popular choice among many teachers and children. Music is after all a thread which runs through all of history, and one through which we can explore many other aspects of life in different times. It can be an exciting avenue into exploring...
    Changes in an aspect of social history from 1945 to 2000: youth culture

  • The Historian 15

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Tudor Princes of Wales, P.R. Roberts 10 Update: Germany 1860-1918, V.R. Berghahn 13 Education Forum: History at 16 to 18, Eric Evans 14 Local History: Some Social History Premises, Norman McCord 18 Personalia: Past Presidents, W. Norton-Medlicott
    The Historian 15

  • Enhancing temporal cognition: Practical activities for the primary classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Research during the last ninety years has suggested that ‘time' concepts, such as chronology, duration and the usage of dating systems are difficult for children to assimilate. However, my research suggests that temporal concepts can be...
    Enhancing temporal cognition: Practical activities for the primary classroom

  • India and the British war effort, 1939-1945

      Historian article
    India was vital as a source of men and material for the British in the Second World War, despite the constitutional, social and economic issues which posed threats to its contribution. Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India 1940-5, wrote to Churchill, 8 April 1941: ‘My prime care had naturally...
    India and the British war effort, 1939-1945

  • The Historian 105: Gladstone and the London May Day Demonstrators

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 Gladstone and the London May Day Demonstrators, 1890 - Chris Wrigley (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Anne Curry 12 Charles Gilpin - John Lethbridge (Read Article) 18 Cambuskenneth books: Looted Scottish law books return to Edinburgh - John Rogers (Read Article) 21 Lord Rochester's Grand...
    The Historian 105: Gladstone and the London May Day Demonstrators

  • An American showman P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for all the family

      Historian article
    Refer nowadays to Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-91)—once among the most recognisable and talked about of all nineteenth century Americans— only to conjure up visions of Barnum & Bailey’s three-ring circuses, menageries, acrobats, and Jumbo the elephant. Such images tend to obscure that in 1880, on creation of the famous travelling...
    An American showman P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for all the family

  • The 2007 Medlicott Medal Lecture What kind of history should school history be?

      Historian article
    I need to start by introducing myself. Most of the previous winners of the distinguished Norton Medlicott Medal have been household names, historians who have moved beyond the library shelves to reach wider audiences through the popularity of their books or television programmes. If you looked through the Radio Times...
    The 2007 Medlicott Medal Lecture What kind of history should school history be?

  • Using visual sources to understand the arguments for women's suffrage

      Teaching History article
    Visual sources, Jane Card argues, are a powerful resource for historical learning but using them in the classroom requires careful thought and planning. Card here shares how she has used visual source material in order to teach her students about the women's suffrage movement. In particular, Card shows how a...
    Using visual sources to understand the arguments for women's suffrage

  • Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire

      Teaching History journal feature
    I wanted to give my Year 8 students ownership of their work on the British Empire by allowing them to suggest our ‘enquiry question'. In order to introduce the Empire, I brought in sugar, spices, bananas, chilli peppers and cotton. I then showed maps demonstrating the Empire at its height....
    Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire