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Teaching History 59
Journal
Editorial
News
Articles:
History and Economic Awareness in the National Curriculum David Kerr
Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Women's History through Local History Dave Welbourne
Keeping the Past under Review Linda Vitagliano and Peter Lim
History as Ethnography: a Pyschological Evaluation of a Theatre in Education Project - George Shand, Rosemary Linnell...
Teaching History 59
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Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Learning to love history: preparation of non-specialist primary school teachers to teach history, Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house, Getting pupils to track their own thinking and much more...
Why Gerry now likes evidential work - Phil Smith (Read article)
Teaching pupils how...
Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation
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Narrative: the under-rated skill
Teaching History article
‘Mere narrative’, ‘lapses into narrative’, ‘a narrative answer that fails to answer the question set’. These phrases flow in the blood of history teachers, from public examination criteria to regular classroom discourse. Whilst most of us use narrative in our teaching methods, we have demonised narrative in pupils’ written answers....
Narrative: the under-rated skill
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The Historian 68: Eighteenth Century Britain and its Empire
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 The Wonderful Land of Oz - Douglas Horlock
12 Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire - P. J. Marshall (Read Article)
18 ‘The Generous Turk’: Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes - Hugh Dunthorne (Read Article)
23 ‘The Mouth Of Hell’: Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, c.1660-c.1800 - Colin Haydon (Read Article)
The Historian 68: Eighteenth Century Britain and its Empire
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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
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Disembarking the religious rollercoaster
Teaching History article
Sarah Jackson-Buckley and Jessie Phillips found themselves perennially dissatisfied with the outcomes of their teaching of the Protestant Reformation. Determined that students should take away a sense of the momentous political and social consequences of the Reformation, they turned to historical scholarship, and to the work of other history teachers on...
Disembarking the religious rollercoaster
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The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 William Morris, art and the rise of the British Labour movement - Chris Wrigley (Read Article)
11 Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb - Z.A.B. Zeman (Read Article)
18 Bombing and the air war on the Italian Front 1915-1918 - A.D. Harvey (Read Article)
22 The reign of Edward VI:...
The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement
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Teaching History 101: History and ICT
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
History and Information Communication Technology, Using ICT in the history classroom, Extending pupils historical vision with limited resources, Using the wordprocessor to connect with knowledge and opinion through revelatory writing, Using the internet to teach about interpretation, Databases, spreadsheets and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3 and much more...
A...
Teaching History 101: History and ICT
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Teaching History 58
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
National Curriculum History: Interim Report Martin Booth 7
Teachers' Concerns over the Current Vogue in Teaching History Peter Truman 10
Story-Telling in History Alan Farmer 17
`Mr. History': the Achievement of R. J. Unstead Reconsidered Sean Lang 24
'Let's Think about this': GCSE History -...
Teaching History 58
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Teaching History 57
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
'Not the White Tights again!': Role-play in History Teaching at Degree Level Ian Dawson 7
The Impact of GCSE History on Further Education Ian Aveyard 14
Some Sixth-Former's Views of History Janice C. Vaudry 17
A Small Oral History Project in Four Rural Cumbrian Primary...
Teaching History 57
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Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study
Teaching History article
The current specifications for AS/A2 history require students to study change over a period of at least 100 years. Given that the 100 year study represents just one module out of six and also that it may not complement any of the other modules selected and may therefore be wholly...
Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study
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The Historian 66: Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 The Value of Biography in History - Antonia Fraser (Read Article)
10 Cholera and the fight for Public Health Reform in mid-Victorian England - Dr Geoff Gill MA, MSc, MD, FRCP (Read Article)
17 Ottawa: Canada's evolving capital - John Talyor
22 Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr...
The Historian 66: Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr
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Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Exploring Values Through History, Rethinking roleplay, Gladstone spritual of Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2, Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley, NQT's, Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing and much more...
‘I’ve been in the Reichstag’: rethinking roleplay - Ian Luff...
Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling
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Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum
Teaching History article
Mike Tillbrook examines the impact of the new AS and A2 courses, raising several serious concerns. He explores problems for effective and rigorous assessment as well as implications of the new course structure for the quality and range of historical learning. Critical of new restrictions in content, he suggests that...
Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum
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The Historian 35
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
3 Feature: Charlemagne, Stuart Airlie
10 Update: Did the Liberals still have a Future in 1914?, Geoffrey Searle
13 Record Linkage: Perceptions of the Public Record Office, Sarah Tyacke
16 Anniversary: The Massacre of Glencoe, Allan Macinnes
19 Report: History in Higher Education: A Change That's Purely Academic,...
The Historian 35
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Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack
Teaching History article
Dale Banham continues a theme explored by many other teacher-authors in recent years, how to ensure that progression does not just stop in Year 9, leaving pupils stagnant in key areas of historical learning before getting picked up again in Year 12. He produces a more thorough rationale and commentary...
Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack
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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
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Teaching History 138: Enriching History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Alf Wilkinson: Making cross-curricular links in history: some ways forward (Read article)
08 James Woodcock: Disciplining cross-curricularity? Cottenham Village College history department's inter-disciplinary projects: an evaluation (Read article)
13 Michael Monaghan: Having ‘Great Expectations' of Year 9 Inter-disciplinary work between English and history...
Teaching History 138: Enriching History
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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
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Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This issue deals with defining and examining the question of what constitutes progress in history. Using audience centred writing to improve progression from Key Stage 2 to 3, Steering your Ofsted inspector into the long-term reasons for classroom success, Using Key Stage 3 to improve performances at GCSE, Learning to...
Teaching History 98: Defining Progression
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The Historian 34
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Looking Back on the Levellers, Austin Woolrych
10 Update: The Vietnam War, Peter Riddick
13 Education Forum: History in the National Curriculum and All That: Year One, Ian Coulson
14 Communications: County Records Office, F.B. Stitt
18 Local History: Managing the Past: Archaeology in the National Parks, Robert...
The Historian 34
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Classic Pamphlets
New Deal is the name given to the policies of the American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s. Elected in 1932, at a time of great economic depression, he sought to alleviate distress by using the inherent powers of government, and the New Deal era come to be seen...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
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Why we must change history GCSE
Teaching History article
A head of steam for change in GCSE history has been building for some time now amongst history teachers, heads of history, advisers, teacher-trainers, researchers, consultants and all who regularly engage in debate about history teaching and learning. All those who read widely, share their practice, experience many Key Stage...
Why we must change history GCSE
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Teaching History 56
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
History Across the Primary Secondary Divide Pat Lackenby and Mel French 8
Evacuation - Fifty Years On Rob David and the Evacuation Project Team 14
A Fourth Year B.Ed Student asks some questions Kay Clarke 18
Women's History and Children's perception of gender Fiona Terry...
Teaching History 56
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Varieties of Reformation
Classic Pamphlet
The most significant change to have occurred in our view of the Reformation in recent years is the growing acknowledgement of historians that it was no unitary phenomenon whose triumph was assured and inevitable. What we refer to in short-hand as ‘the' Reformation was a many-sided affair which began with...
Varieties of Reformation
