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  • Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress

      Teaching History feature
    How can we interest students in the world of ideas? How can we help them to see how important ideas were in shaping and reflecting the world of the Victorians? Working with the overarching enquiry question, ‘Why did some Victorians believe in progress in the nineteenth century and others did not?’ I devised...
    Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress

  • The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front

      Historian article
    Faced with the testimony of the huge casualty lists of the First World War, the desperate battles of attrition, the emotive evidence of the seemingly endless cemeteries and memorials, the moving war poetry of men such as Owen and Sassoon, and the memoirs of those who fought, it is not...
    The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine’s journey

      Historian article
    Danielle E.A. Park takes us on a journey across the Pyrenees and Alps with a redoubtable woman. Eleanor of Aquitaine has acquired a reputation as something of a femme fatale. Her considerable inheritance of Aquitaine, marriages to two kings, the allegations of an affair with her uncle Raymond  of Poitiers,...
    Eleanor of Aquitaine’s journey

  • Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

      Article
    Isobel Jenkins and Mike Turpin answer some of those basic questions which many history teachers are afraid to ask, like ‘What exactly is it anyway?' and ‘Is this really worth my valuable time?' They outline the internet's value as a means of improving information access and as a way of...
    Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

  • 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

  • Sir Francis Dent and the First World War

      Historian article
    Not your typical soldier, not your typical service The term ‘citizen soldier' evokes a particularly powerful image in Britain. The poignant histories of the ‘Pals' Battalions' cast a familiar, often tragic shadow over the popular memory of the First World War. Raised according to geographical and occupational connections, names such...
    Sir Francis Dent and the First World War

  • Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium

      Historian feature
    My Favourite History Place: Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium  We can truly say that the whole circuit of the Earth is girdled with the graves of our dead. In the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace...
    Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium

  • Teaching History 152: Pulling it all together

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Catherine McCrory - How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference (Read article) 20 Cunning Plan: placing visual sources at the heart of historical learning - Shaun Collins (Read article)...
    Teaching History 152: Pulling it all together

  • The Black Leveller

      Historian Article
    History is rarely far removed from today's concerns. What is true of history in general is true of biography; specifically. Darcus Howe: a political biography is no exception. In writing it, we were consciously intervening in current debates about Britain and ‘race'. The impetus to write emerged in 2008 during...
    The Black Leveller

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

      Teaching History feature
    As another World Book Day goes past, you have been watching the English department wax lyrical about all of the wonderful books that pupils might read. You know that there is a wealth of well-written historical scholarship out there for pupils to dive into, yet you are not sure about...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

  • The Ancient Kingdom of Nabataea

      Historian article
    The Kingdom of Nabataea was an important independent entity in the Arabian desert from the third century B.C. to the early second century A.D. Written records are very sparse, so historians need to draw their conclusions from surviving buildings, archaeological excavations and a study of coins. Here Tom Dunstan analyses the extent to which...
    The Ancient Kingdom of Nabataea

  • Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum

      Teaching History article
    History teachers in Scotland are feeling vulnerable. A curriculum review is leading to debates about history’s place in schools – will it or should it be a statutory part of Scotland’s curriculum for 11-14 year olds? Many of the concerns in Sam Henry’s article will ring true for teachers throughout...
    Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum

  • Developing sixth-form students' thinking about historical interpretation

      Teaching History article
    Understanding historical interpretation involves understanding how historical knowledge is constructed. How do sixth formers model historical epistemology? In this article Arthur Chapman examines a small sample of data relating to sixth form students' ideas about why historians construct differing interpretations of the past. He argues that understanding interpretation requires students to...
    Developing sixth-form students' thinking about historical interpretation

  • The Jews of Medieval England

      Historian article
    The diversity of the history of the British Isles continues to be a subject of discussion in academic circles and in popular culture. Some communities have been around for hundreds of years, while others have been part of our societies and then disappeared or been eroded. One of the communities...
    The Jews of Medieval England

  • The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism

      Historian article
    The publication of the first volume of Paddy Ashdown’s Diaries in 2000 has focused renewed attention on the relationship between the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party. From the first meeting between Ashdown and Tony Blair at the latter’s house on 4 September 1994, less than seven weeks after his...
    The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism

  • Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

      Teaching History article
    How do we help pupils to write better paragraphs without actually doing it for them? How do we break down the process of essay writing into smaller steps without taking away pupils’ sense of the essay as a whole? How do we give lower-attaining pupils models, structures and frames without...
    Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

  • Polychronicon 147: Witchcraft, history and children

      Teaching History feature
    Witchcraft is serious history. 1612 marks the 400th anniversary of England's biggest peacetime witch trial, that of the Lancashire witches: 20 witches from the Forest of Pendle were imprisoned, ten were hanged in Lancaster, and another in York. As a result of some imaginative commemorative programmes, a number of schools...
    Polychronicon 147: Witchcraft, history and children

  • Teaching History 62

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 8 Always Historicise: Unintended Opportunities in National Curriculum History - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley  15 'From Little Acorns Grow...': A Liaison with Nursery, Infant and Junior Schools in the Framwellgate Moor Area of Durham City - D. R. Featonby  19 Standing the World on its Head: A Review of Eurocentrism...
    Teaching History 62

  • Cambridge

      Article
    Elisabeth Leedham-Green reflects on reality in the famous university town of Cambridge. This is a sharp place, best encountered when, as surprisingly often, the sun is shining and there is frost in the air. Then the stone sparkles and seems to float a few inches above the gleaming grass —...
    Cambridge

  • Unpicking the threads of interpretations

      Teaching History article
    Determined to do justice to the complexity of the seventeenth century, as a messy but crucial period in British history, and to develop their pupils’ disciplinary understanding of how and why interpretations of the past are constructed, Dan Keates and his department set out to exploit the rich seam of...
    Unpicking the threads of interpretations

  • Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

      Historian article
    Medieval ‘Signs and Marvels': insights into medieval ideas about nature and the cosmic order. Many aspects of life in the Middle Ages puzzle the modern reader but some are stranger than others. What can possibly explain an event reported from Orford Castle, in Suffolk? This is an amazing tale and...
    Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

  • Getting ready for the Grand Prix: Learning how to build a substantial argument in year 7

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Dale Banham’s Grand Prix race has helped many history teachers in Suffolk to think freshly about metaphors and images that will inspire and enable pupils (especially underachieving boys) to write analytically and at length. In...
    Getting ready for the Grand Prix: Learning how to build a substantial argument in year 7

  • The peace treaties of 1919

      Historian article
    Over the last five years the Historical Association has run a regular feature in this journal about the First World War from some lesser-known perspectives. Its purpose has been to capture some of the stories not always told about that life-changing, society-transforming conflict. As the centenary of the Armistice has...
    The peace treaties of 1919

  • Interpretations and history teaching

      Teaching History article
    Gary Howells offers us a challenge: are we sure that we are teaching the study of interpretations correctly? It is much criticised at GCSE, but do we really engage our students in the process of writing history, and in understanding how history works, from 11-14? Or do we use reductive...
    Interpretations and history teaching

  • Private Lives of the Tudors

      Historian article
    Tracy Borman explores the distinction between the public and private lives of the Tudor monarchs. The Tudors were renowned for their public magnificence. Perhaps more than any royal dynasty in British history, they appreciated the importance of impressing their subjects with the splendour of their dress, courts and pageantry in order to reinforce their authority. Wherever...
    Private Lives of the Tudors