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  • Triumphs Show: A head, a hook and international theft: getting year 9 to debate the intricacies of the impact of empire

      Teaching History feature
    The draft of the revised Key Stage 3 programme of study for history brings a new prominence to the study of the British Empire. Here one department describes their triumph in enabling students to engage with a topic which could seem very distant from their own lives.
    Triumphs Show: A head, a hook and international theft: getting year 9 to debate the intricacies of the impact of empire

  • The Historian 94: Civil Rights: How did the Civil Rights movement change America?

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Civil Rights: How did the Civil Rights movement change America? - A.J. Badger (Read Article) The creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 - Alexander Murdoch (Read Article) Historians in the National Archives - A.D. Harvey  The Japanese history textbook controversy: a content analysis - Ron Holt...
    The Historian 94: Civil Rights: How did the Civil Rights movement change America?

  • 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    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Project on Working Class Education in the Victorian Period

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In the third year at London Metropolitan University, history B.ED students research and prepare a resource about an aspect of life in C19th Britain for use with their chosen age group. Nicky made a book,...
    A Project on Working Class Education in the Victorian Period

  • 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

  • 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

  • Your Victorian (And Greek!) Olympic Games

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The teaching ideas below are adapted from an idea the great John Fines developed for teaching Ancient Greek science. With active teacher support and guidance, it requires the pupils to use what they know, and their...
    Your Victorian (And Greek!) Olympic Games

  • Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?

      Article
    This paper was delivered at the British Library on 30th January 1999 at a joint meeting to commemerate the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I.
    Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?

  • Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined...
    Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

  • Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge

      Teaching History article
    Up until the early 1990s, historical knowledge sometimes had rather a bad press. Various developments, in National Curriculum, at GCSE and, importantly, in ordinary teachers’ practice and debate, then led to a much closer integration of what we once called ‘content’ and ‘skills’. Tony McAleavy examined changing perceptions of the...
    Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge

  • 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

  • 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

  • School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

      Teaching History article
    The study of history has to be vibrant. It is about real people, real dramas, real narrative, real human dilemmas. It is not surprising that, despite manifold structural pressures working against us, take-up for GCSE history is once again buoyant. There are all manner of reasons for this - is...
    School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

  • Local Authority Record Offices: Our Heritage at Risk

      Article
    Rosemary Dunhill fears the review of local government structures might lead to damaging cuts in the archive service. The lives of archivists in record offices run by local authorities have been dominated in the last few years by the review of local government. The Government wished to simplify local government...
    Local Authority Record Offices: Our Heritage at Risk

  • ...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4"

      Article
    In contrast with earlier studies which presented a bleak picture of the impact of history teaching, Paul Goalen presents a small-scale study that is optimistic. For pupils in three schools at least, the history teaching of the late 1990s seems to be winning through. Goalen argues that the National Curriculum...
    ...someone might become involved in a fascist group or something...": pupils' perceptions of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4"

  • Hitting the right note: how useful is the music of African-Americans to historians?

      Teaching History article
    Here is a wonderful reminder of the richness of materials available to history teachers. With ever greater emphasis being placed on different learning styles, it is a good moment to remind ourselves that we can cater for virtually all of them in our classrooms. This includes a preference for learning...
    Hitting the right note: how useful is the music of African-Americans to historians?

  • 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

  • Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom.

      Teaching History article
    Writing stories in history lessons? But we don’t do things like that in history do we? Strange bedfellows though history and fiction might seem, Dave Martin and Beth Brooke make a strong case for collaboration between the English and history departments in order to introduce students to the challenging task...
    Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom.

  • Was the workhouse really so bad? An encounter with a cantekerous tramp

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Have you stuggled to find an invigorating, exciting local enquiry to motivate your Year 9 class ? How do you engage students in lively debate? This was the challenge for one Norfolk school who wanted...
    Was the workhouse really so bad? An encounter with a cantekerous tramp

  • Unpicking the learning potential in creative approaches to studying World War II

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘The biggest issue for school history is its limited place in the curriculum.' (Ofsted, 2007) This central concern of Ofsted's 2007 report, History in the balance, could equally apply to the teaching of drama in primary schools....
    Unpicking the learning potential in creative approaches to studying World War II

  • Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

      Teaching History Article
    The question of what to include is a constant challenge to those given the responsibility of education, whether writing at the level of a national curriculum or the departmental scheme of work. Dan Lyndon and his department have been rethinking inclusion in history. In any school, representative history is essential...
    Integrating black British history in the National Curriculum

  • International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

      Teaching History article
    There is no reason why pupils of so-called ‘average’ and ‘below-average ability’ cannot both understand and enjoy studying complicated international events. Indeed, in the interests of inclusion and raised standards, it is vital that they do. Our Letters Pages in the last two editions captured something of the history teaching...
    International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

  • War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain

      Article
    John Major discusses an astonishing aspect of past Anglo-American history. All great powers have developed contingency plans for war with each other, and the United States in the early twentieth century was no exception. Each of Washington’s schemes was given a distinctive colour. Green mapped out intervention in neighbouring Mexico,...
    War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain