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Primary History 42: Getting Out
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 HA Centenary Day and Competition
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 In My View: the debate upon the English National Curriculum for history at KS2 — Robert Guyver and Jon Nichol
11 The Taunton Market Project: an innovative collaboration — Sue Berry
14 Geography and history: exploring the local...
Primary History 42: Getting Out
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Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it's written on? Answer: When it's accompanied by a Level, grade or mark!
Teaching History article
In this article, Simon Butler advances a strong case for ‘comments only’ marking. Good assessment, he argues, is about encouraging students to reflect on their current performance and take responsibility for their own progress. Assigning Levels to pupils’ work is often justified in terms of the generation of targets which...
Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it's written on? Answer: When it's accompanied by a Level, grade or mark!
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Primary History 41: The power of a good story
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 Creating stories for teaching primary history — Rosie Turner-Bisset (Read article)
10 In My View: using children's literature to look at bias and stereotyping — Russell Jones (Read article)
13 Stories about people: narrative, imagined biography and citizenship in the Key Stage 2 curriculum...
Primary History 41: The power of a good story
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The teaching and learning of history for 15-16 year olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the English experience
Teaching History article
What would you expect the differences to be between Japan and England in how pupils learn history in the post-14 phase? Perhaps your guess would be: Japanese school students learn a lot of historical facts and focus upon their own identity and English school students talk a lot more in...
The teaching and learning of history for 15-16 year olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the English experience
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The Historian 84: The first trans-Atlantic hero?
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
8 The first trans-Atlantic hero? General James Wolfe and British North America - Stephen Brumwell (Read article)
16 Brazil and the two World Wars - Joseph Smith (Read article)
22 William Vernon Harcourt - Patrick Jackson (Read article)
30 Who's afraid of the Victorian underworld? - Andy Croll
36 Out and...
The Historian 84: The first trans-Atlantic hero?
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Primary History 40
Journal
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 In My View: spotlight on HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar — Rachel Rhodes
11 Pop-up history — Ondia Gillette
14 What is worth knowing in history? — Peter Vass
16 A history curriculum for the 21st century: From Russia With Love —...
Primary History 40
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'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?
Teaching History article
This was an opportunity all good historians dream about. A large box crammed with artefacts about a soldier who fought in the First World War, just begging to be read, studied, sorted and organised. Being faced with such a wealth of uncatalogued primary evidence could have proved daunting enough without...
'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?
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The Historian 83: Personality and Power
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
8 Personality and Power: The Individual's role in the History of Twentieth-Century Europe - Ian Kershaw (Read article)
20 'Right well kept': Peterborough Abbey 1536-1539 - Christopher Morris (Read article)
24 The commercial architecture of Victorian Liverpool - Joseph Sharples (Read article)
36 The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs - Dave Burnham (Read article)...
The Historian 83: Personality and Power
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Teaching History 116: Place
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with how the purpose of history relates to the purpose of geography or how geography's shaping concepts fit into those of history. How do the two subjects strengthen each other?
06 Sense, Relationship, and Power: Uncommon Views of Place - Liz Taylor (Read article)
14 Cunning Plan: Geography...
Teaching History 116: Place
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The Historian 46
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Images of English Queens in the Later Middle Ages - Elizabeth Danbury
11 Local History: The Reformation and the Parish Church: Local Responses to National Directives - Joe Bettey
15 Education Forum: History in the Primary School: the Curriculum Review (- or Sir Ron'sother Lottery) - Roy Hughes
16 Record...
The Historian 46
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The Historian 82: The Spanish Collection
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 The Spanish collection at the Victorian and Albert Museum in London: its inception and development in the Museum's context and conversion policy - Dr Rafael Manuel Pepiol (Read article)
12 The Great Exhibition - Chloe Jeffries (Read article)
18 Stanley Baldwin's reputation - Philip Williamson (Read article)
24 Beware the serpent...
The Historian 82: The Spanish Collection
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Primary History 38
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 Primary History: your views
10 History and the National Primary Strategy — Kevan Collins (Read article)
12 Creativity, imagination and fun in primary history — Tim Lomas (Read article)
16 Engage, innovate, motivate with QCA's new website for history — Jerome Freeman and Jane...
Primary History 38
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Stretching the straight jacket of assessment: use of role play and practical demonstration to enrich pupils' experience of history at GCSE and beyond
Teaching History article
As in his previous, popular and influential Teaching History articles, Ian Luff has once again provided us with a wide range of high-quality, practical activities informed by a rigorous and persuasive rationale. This time, he has turned his attention to the use of role play and active demonstration at GCSE...
Stretching the straight jacket of assessment: use of role play and practical demonstration to enrich pupils' experience of history at GCSE and beyond
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Teaching History 115: Assesment Without Levels?
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Assessment without Level Descriptions - Sally Burnham and Geraint Brown (Read article)
16 Dr Black Box or How I learned to stop worrying and love assessment - Mark Cottingham (Read article)
26 Rigorous, meaningful and robust: practical ways forward for assessment - Simon Harrison (Read article)
31 Opportunities, challenges...
Teaching History 115: Assesment Without Levels?
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A scaffold, not a cage: progression and progression models in history
Teaching History article
The need to understand ways of defining progression in history becomes ever more pressing in the face of a target-setting, assessment-driven regime which requires us to measure progress at every turn. We must defend our professional expertise in terms of measurable outcomes. Did we add value? Have our end of...
A scaffold, not a cage: progression and progression models in history
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JFK: the medium, the message and the myth
Teaching History article
Dale Banham and Russell Hall present a multi-faceted rationale for an in-depth study of the 1991 film, JFK. They treat it as an ‘interpretation’ in the National Curriculum sense, constructing a varied and meticulous learning journey towards its analysis. By the end of that journey pupils had examined the central...
JFK: the medium, the message and the myth
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Stories to extend and support the study of life in Victorian Times
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
The study of life in Victorian Times with Key Stage 2 pupils, or aspects of life beyond living memory (now ‘the more distant past’) with children in Key Stage 1 is surely one of the richest and most popular historical themes. Some...
Stories to extend and support the study of life in Victorian Times
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Cunning Plan 112: Empire
Teaching History feature
‘Empire’ is an historical concept with a rather imprecise range of meanings. Students need to be able to track their changing understanding of what an empire actually is. Into our workschemes for Years 7 to 13 we have therefore introduced a number of enquiry questions that simultaneously build knowledge about...
Cunning Plan 112: Empire
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Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
This paper examines the application of TEXT-BREAKER to a year 3 class being taught a history text in the Literacy hour. The context was the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain Study Unit of the National Curriculum for History (DFE, 1995). Within...
Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts
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The Historian 80: Queen Victoria as a Politician
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 The Casket Letters - A E MacRobert (Read article)
13 Recent Advances in the Study of Surnames - David Hey (Read article)
18 Mr Adams’ Free Grammar School - David and Ruth Taylor (Read article)
24 Queen Victoria as a Politician - Ian St John (Read article)...
The Historian 80: Queen Victoria as a Politician
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Primary History 37
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial
4 Primary Noticeboard
6 In My View: Migration: the search for a better life? – Katherine Hann (Read article)
10 Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A significant Victorian? – Penelope Harnett (Read article)
13 Helping students make sense of historical time – Keith C. Barton (Read article)
15 Ofsted Report...
Primary History 37
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'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War
Teaching History article
In this article, Helena Stride shows how the Imperial War Museum responded to criticism that insufficient attention had been paid to the contribution of black and Asian people to Britain’s wars. She focuses on one of two resource-packs produced by the Museum, which highlights the experience of Britain’s colonial peoples,...
'Britain was our home': Helping Years 9, 10, and 11 to understand the black experience of the Second World War
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Teaching History 113: Creating Progress
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with creating progress: History teachers are creating progress - the idea and the reality. Why rely on others to define and design it? The creation process is every teacher's property and there is no celing on what we might help pupils achieve. JFK, Progression models, Roleplay in...
Teaching History 113: Creating Progress
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Teaching History 147: Curriculum Architecture
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Beth Baker and Steven Mastin - Did Alexander really ask, ‘Do I appear to you to be a bastard?' Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking (Read article)
14 Cunning Plan: Getting students to use classical texts - Beth Baker...
Teaching History 147: Curriculum Architecture
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The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history - Dr Adrian Smith (Read article)
9 John Knox and womankind: a reappraisal - Maureen M Meikle (Read article)
16 Why did regional variations exist in the prosecution of witches between 1580-1650? - Robert Hodgkinson (Read article)...
The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history
