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Teaching History 133: Simulating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age – Ben Walsh (Read article)
10 How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable – Dan Moorhouse (Read article)
17 Nutshell
18 ‘If everyone’s got to vote then, obviously…...
Teaching History 133: Simulating History
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68
Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC; The Dark Ages
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68
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Forbidden friendships: taverns, nightclubs, bottle bars and emancipation
Historian article
The modern gay-rights movement has its origins in a 1960s New York ‘bottle bar’, but as Ben Jerrit explains, drinking establishments have been centres of gay culture and social resistance for centuries.
Forbidden friendships: taverns, nightclubs, bottle bars and emancipation
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Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Speed cameras, dead ends, drivers and diversions: Year 9 use a ‘road map’ to problematise change and continuity – Rachel Foster (Read article)
09 The Holy Grail? GCSE History that actually enhances historical understanding! – Katie Hall (Read article)
17 ‘Create something interesting...
Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently
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Teaching History 87
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Reading the Bickersteth Diaries - John Bickersteth
8 History at Home - Rob David
14 Nuffield Primary Project (Part I) - John Fines
21 Our History or Your History? (Part 2) - Gillian Wilson
24 Key Stage 2 Multi Cultural Issues (Part I) - Marika Sherwood
27 Primary School...
Teaching History 87
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New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative
Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
Narrative is shedding its status as the ‘underrated skill’, re-emerging as a requirement of the new GCSE in England. As Counsell has argued, constructing a narrative is ‘no easy option’, however, and asking students to ‘Write an account…’ lacks the comfortable familiarity of ‘Explain why…’ or ‘How far…’. Fortunately, many...
New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative
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New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance
Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
Historical significance first appeared in England’s National Curriculum for history in 1995. It entered the assessment framework (Level Descriptions) in 2008. In 2014, it became part of the History NC ‘Aims’. One thing never changes, however: it is hard.
But history teachers have written a great deal about historical significance...
New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance
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Teaching History 89
The HA's journal for history teachers
4 Editorial
5 Teaching History Briefing
9 'I can't remember doing Romans' by Elizabeth Wood and Cathie Holden
13 Colonies, colonials and World War II by Marika Sherwood
19 Does GCSE provide a valid assessment of the achievements of the more able? by Elizabeth Pickles
22 Time for history by...
Teaching History 89
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Teaching History 86
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Our History or Your History? - Gillian Wilson
8 The Constructive Use of Role Play at Key Stage 3 - Edwin Towil!
14 Why and how we teach history in schools: the case of the Roman soldier - Terry Haydn
16 In Search of the Missing Railway - Dave Welbourne...
Teaching History 86
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Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
04 HA Secondary News
06 Unnatural and essential: the nature of historical thinking – Sam Wineburg (Read article)
13 Nutshell
14 New alchemy or fatal attraction? History and citizenship – Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt (Read article)
20 Polychronicon: Peterloo – Robert Poole (Read article)
22 Interdisciplinary forays...
Teaching History 129: Disciplined Minds
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Out and About in Derry/Londonderry
Historian feature
Jenni Hyde was out and about in Derry in 2016 and describes how the sights of the city tell the story of a history which is so much more than just the legacy of the Troubles.
Out and About in Derry/Londonderry
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Kings and coins in later Anglo-Saxon England
Historian article
The study of Anglo-Saxon coins shows the sophistication of tenth- and eleventh-century government and of the economy. But they carried a moral and religious message too.
Kings and coins in later Anglo-Saxon England
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Teaching History 125: Significance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘Maybe they haven’t decided yet what is right:’ English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance – Lis Cercadillo (Read article)
10 What they think they know: the impact of pupils’ preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance – Robin Conway (Read article)
16 Polychronicon: The Norman Conquest - Tony McConnell
18...
Teaching History 125: Significance
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Teaching History 84
The HA's journal for history teachers
4 Viewpoint - Grant Bage
6 Great Britons? An Appraisal of Some Historical Personalities in Key Stage 2 - Peter Vass
10 History and Technology at Key Stage Two: A Practical Partnership- Paul Taylor
15 From Collingwood to the Teaching of Historical Thinking- Teresa Maclsaac
19 'A Concept Quite Alien'?...
Teaching History 84
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Homosexuality in Britain Since 1967
Historian article
Harry Cocks marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act with an examination of what has happened since this crucial piece of legislation.
Homosexuality in Britain Since 1967
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Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area
The problem page for history mentors
This Issue's Problem: Because of the demands of the modular structure on non-specialists, the school's Key Stage 3 schemes of work are extremely detailed, and include individual lesson plans that staff are encouraged to use or adapt depending on their level of confidence. Arnie began by relying on the plan...
Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area
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Teaching History 122: Rethinking History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Why don’t the Chinese play cricket? Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire – Steven Mastin and Pieter Wallace (Read article)
15 More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3 – Robert Guyver (Read article)
24 Polychronicon: Whose conspiracy? The plot of...
Teaching History 122: Rethinking History
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Teaching History 119: Language
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their causal reasoning – James Woodcock (Read article)
24 Are you ready for your close-up? – Heather Scott with Judith Kidd (Read article)
15 The Tudor monarchy in crisis: using a historian’s account to stretch the most able...
Teaching History 119: Language
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Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 Does differentiation have to mean different? – Richard Harris (Read article)
13 Engaging with each other: how interactions between teachers inform professional practice – Simon Letman (Read article)
17 Seeing, hearing and doing the Rennaissance (Part 2) – Maria Osowiecki (Read article)
26 Polychronicon: Henry VII: Diligent bureaucrat or paranoid blunderer? (Read...
Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation
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New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning
Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the ‘no-quick-fix’
This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll find something better: conversations in which history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations which...
New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning
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Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking
The problem page for history mentors
This Issue's Problem: William Cuffay, PGCE student, is struggling to find a questioning style which will develop pupils' thinking.
Problem:
William Cuffay is half way through the second term of his PGCE course and is showing considerable promise. He is thorough in his lesson preparation, and has a clear sense...
Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking
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Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05’Why can’t they just live together happily, Miss?’ Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE – Alison Stephen (Read article)
11 Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE – Chris Culpin (Read article)
15 Cunning Plan: Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after...
Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions
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Teaching History 78
The HA's journal for history teachers
5 Using History to Develop Citizenship Education in the National Curriculum - Peter John and Ian Davies
8 Developing a Multicultural Perspective Within Key Stage 3 National Curriculum History - Paul Bracey
11 History Education in a Democratic South Africa- Peter Kallaway
17 History Teaching and the Council of Europe -...
Teaching History 78
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Teaching History 74
The HA's journal for history teachers
7 The Aims of School History - John White
10 Beyond the Old Dichotomies: Some Reflections on Hayden White - Keith Jenkins
17 Teaching Post-Modern History: A Rational Proposition for the Classroom? - Peter Brickley
23 What is the Future for the History National Curriculum? - Frances M. Connelly
27...
Teaching History 74
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Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with how to help pupils to notice in themselves those assumptions that are based on their own familiar world and which actually get in the way of making sense of past actions and belief. How one period visualises another, Ideas for developing chronological understanding, Modern day parallels...
Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance
