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  • Sutton Hoo - Classroom archaeology in the digital age

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. The class had composed its Anglo-Saxon funeral poem for Raedwald, an Anglo-Saxon king, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A6dwald_of_East_Anglia, the high king or Bretwalda of all seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the early seventh century as well as being King...
    Sutton Hoo - Classroom archaeology in the digital age
  • Significant anniversaries: The Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963

      Primary History article
    It is sixty years since the Bristol Bus Boycott highlighted race inequalities and discrimination in the workplace. In this article, Stuart Boydell revisits this watershed moment and considers how the Bristol Bus Boycott could be incorporated into the curriculum today. Sixty years ago, Bristol was at the centre of a...
    Significant anniversaries: The Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963
  • Verdun: the endless battle

      Historian article
    Most can agree that the battle of Verdun started 100 years ago, on 21 February 1916, when the Germans began attacking French positions north and east of the old fortress town on the Meuse river. Few can agree on when it ended. The Germans might draw a line under it...
    Verdun: the endless battle
  • Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Seán Lang examines the power of film to shape AS/A students’ perception and even understanding of the past. He argues that teachers of Years 12 and 13 underestimate at their peril the impact film can have on how students shape their perception of history. Although, as he...
    Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level
  • When computers don't give you a headache: the most able lead a debate on medicine through time

      Teaching History article
    Dan Moorhouse begins with a complaint about ICT. It is not the clichéd teacher-complaint – that the computers keep crashing, and the students are messing around on the Internet (and how, exactly, do you turn the things on?) Instead, he observes that the use of ICT in the classroom is...
    When computers don't give you a headache: the most able lead a debate on medicine through time
  • Teaching pupils to analyse cartoons

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In this practical account of a key aspect of history departmental policy, Joseph O'Neill presents a rationale for the systematic teaching of analytical techniques. Alert to the dangers of mechanistic and formulaic examination responses, the...
    Teaching pupils to analyse cartoons
  • Polychronicon 123: Gladstone and Disraeli

      Teaching History feature
    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' focuses on the interpretations of Gladstone and Disraeli.
    Polychronicon 123: Gladstone and Disraeli
  • From tragedy to triumph: The courage of Henrietta, Lady of Luxborough 1699-1756

      Historian article
    Why is Henrietta Luxborough, who was born in 1699, of interest today? In the first place because of whom she was; in the second because of what happened to her; and in the third because of her courage which enabled her to overcome adversity and lead a life utterly different...
    From tragedy to triumph: The courage of Henrietta, Lady of Luxborough 1699-1756
  • Chartism

      Classic Pamphlet
    It is not surprising that Chartism has attracted a great deal of interest from historians and students, for at no other period in British history, with the possible exception of the second and third decades of the twentieth century, has so much excitement and activity been aroused at the working-class...
    Chartism
  • French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?

      Historian article
    The year 1066 - the one universally remembered date in English history, so well-known that banks advise customers not to choose it as their PIN number - opened the country up to French influence in spectacular fashion. During the ‘long twelfth century' (up to King John's death in 1216) that...
    French chivalry in twelfth-century Britain?
  • Move Me On 134: Getting enough A-level experience

      Teaching History feature
    Problem for the history mentor: Tom Clarkson is worried that he will not have enough A level teaching experience to teach Year 12 effectively next year. Tom Clarkson is well into his second teaching placement and fears that the outline plans on his timetable for working with Year 12 will...
    Move Me On 134: Getting enough A-level experience
  • MOOCs and the Middle Ages

      Historian article
    Deirdre O’Sullivan explains how history courses such as England in the Time of Richard III are now freely available to people anywhere in the world who have online access. She reports that in the past two years 40,000 learners have followed this course. MOOCs (Massive Open Access Online Courses) are...
    MOOCs and the Middle Ages
  • Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE

      Article
    It is a very common complaint that history GCSE is unfairly demanding compared with other subjects. Well, it probably is. But that does not stop history at Robert Clack School from outperforming every other subject except art. Nor is this the story of one of those schools with an unusually...
    Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE
  • Polychronicon 122: The Gunpowder Plot

      Teaching History feature
    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' focuses on interpretations of the Gunpowder Plot.
    Polychronicon 122: The Gunpowder Plot
  • The Historian 55: Arthur, Prince of Wales and his training for kingship

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Arthur Prince of Wales, Jane Austen: a Writer for all Seasons - Irene Collins (Read article) The Spanish Armada of...1597? - Graham Darby (Read article) From Disraeli to Callaghan, Britain 1879 to 1979 - A.J.P. Taylor (Read article) A New Route Into Teaching History - Hilary Bourdillon The...
    The Historian 55: Arthur, Prince of Wales and his training for kingship
  • Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level

      Teaching History article
    Richard Harris challenges those who play down the essay in their teaching of the new AS Level. He argues that essay-writing embodies historical thinking and that it is therefore an essential tool for developing students’ understanding of history as an opinion-forming, judgement making process. Students need to practise developed, evidential...
    Why essay-writing remains central to learning history at AS level
  • The Historian 10

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Henry Vll's Dynastic Hieroglyphs, Sydney Anglo  10 Local History: Industrial Archaeology, Marilyn Palmer  14 Westminster Diary: The Importance and Content of History Teaching, Ralph Dauis  15 Update: Chartism, Peter Searby  19 Report: History and Higher Education, Michael Biddiss 21 Personalia: Profile of Henry Loyn  31 Spotlight: Malmesbury, Nigel...
    The Historian 10
  • The Historian 11

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Sultan Süleyman's Marred Magnificence, John D. Norton  10 Prospect: History of Education at the Crossroads, Richard Aldrich 14 Personalia: Martin Booth and Keith Robbins  16 Reports: History at the Universities Defence Group and History at the Polytechnics 17 Portfolio Piece: John Hancock and the Declaration of Independence, John...
    The Historian 11
  • Teaching about the translatlantic slave trade and emancipation

      Primary History article
    Introduction – slavery, abolition and emancipation 25 March 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. It is not compulsory to teach about the slave trade. However, the links to the National Curriculum – particularly in history, citizenship and geography – are clear. The...
    Teaching about the translatlantic slave trade and emancipation
  • Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories

      Primary History feature
    Please note: this piece was written before Sir Mo Farah’s 2022 disclosure that he was trafficked to the UK as a child, so some of its content is no longer accurate. An assembly could focus on the achievements of their lives, experiences as child refugees and migrants, and how they overcame...
    Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
  • Move Me On 140: Getting students to generate their own enquiry questions

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Rafe Sadler has just started his second teaching placement and is worried about the very different ways of working and expectations of teachers in his new department. In his first school, where history was taught within a humanities programme, the Key Stage 3 scheme of work had...
    Move Me On 140: Getting students to generate their own enquiry questions
  • Case Study: Creative exploration of local, national and global links 1650

      Primary History article
    Introduction: Linking two schools Rather than looking to create connections with schools in distant places, two teachers from two schools located in different parts of the city of Bristol established a successful link which enabled children to appreciate the personal and local histories on each other's doorsteps. 7/8 year old [year...
    Case Study: Creative exploration of local, national and global links 1650
  • Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Rob Collingwood keeps just making assumptions about his students' thinking. Rob Collingwood seemed to make a very promising start to his first school placement, but as time goes on his mentor is becoming concerned about the lack of connection between Rob's thinking and that of his students. Rob...
    Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking
  • My Favourite Place - Beamish

      Historian feature
    Hopping off a tram at Beamish Museum, you're stepping straight into life in Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian times. What I really love about Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, is that it not only shows how communities in the region used to live - but also gives you a...
    My Favourite Place - Beamish
  • The Historian 57: Georgian Landscape

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 Georgian Landscape: 18th-century landscape design: the art that disguises art - John Cannon 10 Thomas Jefferson: an icon of American democracy reassessed - Colin Bonwick 11 Men of Genius and learning: rewriting the history of the Scottish Enlightenment - David Allan 20 Gladstone's Death and Funeral - Colin Matthew...
    The Historian 57: Georgian Landscape