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  • Polychronicon 120: The past as analogy in popular music

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition focuses on the interpretations of popular music.
    Polychronicon 120: The past as analogy in popular music

  • Ancient Greece: Birthplace of the Olympics - Teacher Briefing

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: Below is a one-page outline of a wonderful briefing replete with visual and textual sources and teaching ideas from The Cambridge Schools  Classics Project (CSC P). The outline below consists of the full introduction...
    Ancient Greece: Birthplace of the Olympics - Teacher Briefing

  • 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

  • Less time, more thought: coping with the challenges of two-year Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Nathan Cole and Denise Thompson have really thought about Key Stage 3. They have been forced to; they now teach it in only two years. The switch to a two-year Key Stage 3 has made them re-evaluate their entire programme of study, and their rationale for teaching history. The result...
    Less time, more thought: coping with the challenges of two-year Key Stage 3

  • Polychronicon 126: Stonehenge

      Teaching History feature
    Secondary history ought to pay more attention to stones: 1. they are accessible, logistically and educationally, and highly instructive. The Neolithic is everywhere, and generally speaking, free2. venture outside the classroom, into real space or cyberspace, and you stumble into it eventually.3. Archaeological interpretation is an accessible way into aspects...
    Polychronicon 126: Stonehenge

  • The Reign of Edward VI: An Historiographical Survey

      Article
    The modern historiography of this critical and disturbed six year period begins with the work of W.K. Jordan. Jordan was already a well established authority on the history of English philanthropy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, when he turned his attention specifically to Edward VI in the mid-1960s.
    The Reign of Edward VI: An Historiographical Survey

  • Cunning Plan 94: Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750

      Article
    Flesh and blood people bring history to life. Capture the interest of our Year 8 pupils by making sure they engage with human dilemmas and dangers. A focus on individual people as the starting point for enquiries helps pupils to tackle the ‘big' stories (overviews) and difficult concepts.
    Cunning Plan 94: Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750

  • Out and about in D.H. Lawrence country

      Historian feature
    Eastwood is a busy, small town, about twelve miles west of Nottingham. It lies just within the county boundary with Derbyshire. Its name probably derived from a settlement in a clearing of the old Sherwood Forest. It sits mostly on a hilltop, which is the meeting place for main roads...
    Out and about in D.H. Lawrence country

  • British Christians and European Integration

      Historian article
    Despite Britain’s longstanding membership of the European Union, the question of ‘Europe’ continues to loom large in the nation’s politics. Whilst the economic pros and cons of Britain ‘joining’ the euro might be understood by only a select few, that issue provides for the many an opportunity to debate Britain’s...
    British Christians and European Integration

  • Hungarian Nationalism in International Context

      Historian article
    All aspects of Hungarian nationalism – with one exception, which I shall consider later – had more or less similar counterparts elsewhere in Europe; but the blending of those elements yielded a unique constellation. Moreover, the ingredients of this mixture proved highly disruptive for central Europe, indeed at times for...
    Hungarian Nationalism in International Context

  • Triumphs Show 121: 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

      Teaching History feature
    It’s early July 2004, and the history department of Harrogate Grammar School are chatting in the staff room enjoying a bit of spare time now that exam classes have disappeared. The subject of what the department will do next year when it comes to trips, speakers and special days comes...
    Triumphs Show 121: 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

  • Fascist behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain

      Historian article
    In the spring and early summer of 1940, the British government carried out a programme of mass internment without trial. On 11 May, the first of thousands of ‘enemy aliens' were interned. Many of these internees were refugees from Nazi Germany, often Jews who had fled Germany in fear of...
    Fascist behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain

  • Move Me On 125: Lack of conceptual clarity

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Steve Cloye is over half way through his first main teaching placement and has been struggling with the PGCE. His degree was in American Studies, and although this included American history he lacks confidence in his subject knowledge, and particularly in his understanding of the nature of the...
    Move Me On 125: Lack of conceptual clarity

  • Ants and the Tet Offensive: teaching Year 11 to tell the difference

      Article
    The history department at Morpeth School in East London has improved performance at GCSE. The department has also done something unusual: it has abandoned coursework. This might seem a surprising decision but the rationale is interesting and clear. Arguably, the fundamental examination skills are identical to those needed for coursework...
    Ants and the Tet Offensive: teaching Year 11 to tell the difference

  • Teaching History 18

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The contributors, 2 Geffrye Museum: People's Museum, 3 Report: Staffordshire Courses, July 1976, 5A Renaissance in history 'A' level, 6 Exploring a Community's Past, 11 Comment, 14 Making the best use of textbooks, 16 Detective exercises are not quite enough, 22 Review article - imagination and the historian,...
    Teaching History 18

  • Edwardian England

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Edwardian era is still less than a lifetime away. Yet the memoirs of surviving Edwardians, written any time between the nineteen-twenties and the nineteen sixties, have often made it sound like a remote epoch. The years between the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and the outbreak of the...
    Edwardian England

  • Case Study: Gifted Pupils design new children's museum galleries

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In this article I will describe a G&T museum-based project which we have just trialled with three primary schools in the Ashton Bedminster primary school cluster in Bristol. It was a joint initiative between Bristol’s...
    Case Study: Gifted Pupils design new children's museum galleries

  • The Historian 112: The Myth of the frontier in the Hollywood western

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 Nazi aggression: planned or improvised? - Hendrik Karsten Hogrefe (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Jackie Eales 12 Neville Chamberlain: villain or hero? - Brent Dyck (Read Article) 16 Cyprus: another Middle East issue - Sarah Newman (Read Article) 20 Have gun, will travel: The myth of the...
    The Historian 112: The Myth of the frontier in the Hollywood western

  • Twickenham as a Patriotic Town

      Historian article
    Twickenham from the 1890s onwards grew as a town with a special sense of history. Nobody in authority on the local council could quite forget the reputation which the district had acquired as a rural arcadia. The aristocrats and gentry who built villas in the parish in the late 17th...
    Twickenham as a Patriotic Town

  • How Nelson Became a Hero

      Article
    The fittest man in the world for the command' of the Mediterranean, Lord Minto declared of Horatio Nelson on 24 April 1798, following Nelson's inventive assault on Spanish ships off Cape St. Vincent. 'Admiral Nelson's victory [at the Nile]… is one of the most glorious and comprehensive victories ever achieved...
    How Nelson Became a Hero

  • Key Stage 2 – Key Stage 3: Transition

      Primary History article
    Often, primary schools and secondary schools are seen as separate entities. But why? At primary, is it our responsibility to nurture our children and to encourage them only until they finish their primary education after the Year 6 SATs? Do we then just wave goodbye as they embark on their...
    Key Stage 2 – Key Stage 3: Transition

  • Using children’s illustrators as a focus for learning about ‘Past and Present’ in EYFS

      Primary History article
    The EYFS framework places a key emphasis on the value of giving children rich encounters with stories and picture books. With World Book Day just around the corner, this article suggests how a focus on children’s illustrators could be used to develop children’s understanding of ‘past and present’...
    Using children’s illustrators as a focus for learning about ‘Past and Present’ in EYFS

  • The Last Duke of Lorraine

      Article
    The Place Stanislas in Nancy has a high reputation. But expectations are far surpassed as one surveys the beautifully proportioned square, with its imposing buildings such as the Hôtel de Ville and the Governor's Palace, its Arc de Triomphe and its magnificent iron work. It is a reminder of how...
    The Last Duke of Lorraine

  • Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by Jeanne Theoharis’s biography of Rosa Parks, Ed Durbin initially planned to challenge the ‘fable’ that had been constructed around her life. He soon realised, however, that he wanted to take the opportunity to get ‘behind’ the fable and help his students understand how and why it had been constructed. Drawing...
    Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9

  • The Historian 2

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Articles include: 3 Feature: Representations of the Robin Hood Legend – John Taylor 13 The Case for History in School – John Slater 17 Local History: Blind Houses – Mary Delorme 19 Record Linkage: Deadboards – Trevor James 22 Update: Restoration and Revolution 1660-1714 – John Childs 28 Personalia: Profile of A J.P Taylor...
    The Historian 2