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Teaching History 64
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 The Professional Craft Knowledge of the History Teacher - Peter John
12 Talking about History: Group Work in the Classroom - Practice and Implications - Kenneth Brzezicki
17 Issues in the Teaching of History - Towards a Skills/Concept-led Approach - Jane Jenkins
22 Bebba and her Sisters - Gully Robson
26 Time...
Teaching History 64
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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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Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch
Teaching History feature
Heather Scott gives a detailed account of the opening of a new HA branch in West Yorkshire.
Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch
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Teaching History 97: Visual History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to ‘layers of inference’ for Key Stage 3 - Claire Riley (Read article)
How long before we need the US Cavalry? The Pittsburgh Conference on ‘Teaching, Knowing and Learning’. - Peter Lee and Ros Ashby (Read article)
Practical...
Teaching History 97: Visual History
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Teaching History 62
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Always Historicise: Unintended Opportunities in National Curriculum History - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley
15 'From Little Acorns Grow...': A Liaison with Nursery, Infant and Junior Schools in the Framwellgate Moor Area of Durham City - D. R. Featonby
19 Standing the World on its Head: A Review of Eurocentrism...
Teaching History 62
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Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
The uses of sources in History, The evidence sandwich, Teaching Pupils to analyse cartoons, shared stories and a sense of place, Working with sources, interpretations of history and much more...
The use of sources in History - Tony McAleavy (Read article)
The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article)
Teaching...
Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation
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Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11
Teaching History feature
Caroline Godsell describes the reactions and concerns of two Year 9 classes after the 9/11 attack.
Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11
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Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons
Teaching History feature
What makes someone an Icon? A cunning plan to explore the relative significance of individuals involved in abolishing the slave trade.
Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons
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Teaching History 63
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Using Evidence in the GCSE History Classroom - Heather Fry
18 Preparing to Teach about Causation - Ian Davies and Margaret Marshall
23 History Through Drama: A Curriculum Development Project - Graeme Easdown
28 The Appliance of Science: History and the Use of Artefacts in the Primary Curriculum - Peter Vass
33...
Teaching History 63
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Teaching History 92: Explanation and Argument
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning how to build a substantiated argument in Year 7 - Dale Banham (Read article)
Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability - Gary Howells (Read article)
The ‘structured enquiry’ is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for...
Teaching History 92: Explanation and Argument
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Teaching History 60
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
9 The Nature of History and the National Curriculum - Michael Honeybone
11 Information Processing in Primary History Topic Work - Philip Powell
14 Blickling 1698 - Alan Childs and Mike Pond
17 The Women in Modern Britain Project - Sebastian Bees
21 The Time Machine: A Cross Curricular Approach to Teaching History...
Teaching History 60
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 82
Anglo-Saxon daily life
These images help to tell us more about Anglo-Saxon daily life.
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 82
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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
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In conversation with Mineke Schipper
Historian feature
Rosalind Crone from The Historian talks to Mineke Schipper about her new book, The Shrinking Goddess, a re-examination of the rise of patriarchy through myths, proverbs, stories, images and understandings of the female body.
In conversation with Mineke Schipper
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Out and About: Newcastle’s 1650 Witch Trial
Historian feature
A.D. Bergin’s research for a work of historical fiction led him to Newcastle, where one of the largest witch trials in English history took place in 1650. Despite the scale of the proceedings, the event remains much less well known than the infamous Pendle trials or Matthew Hopkins’ East Anglian witch hunts.
Out and About: Newcastle’s 1650 Witch Trial
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In conversation with Ulinka Rublack
Historian feature
The Historian discusses with Ulinka Rublack her latest book, Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World (2023), which takes a fresh look at this major Renaissance artist, telling the story of his life and times, and reassessing some of his best-known works...
In conversation with Ulinka Rublack
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Art and ecology
Historian article
Artworks and objects from the past provide us with a compelling record of human interaction with the natural world. In this article, art historians Carla Benzan and Samuel Shaw explain how they are using collections from galleries and museums to bring environmental history to new audiences and to increase awareness...
Art and ecology
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Doing history for climate action
Historian article
Incidents of flooding across the UK are increasing, threatening homes and livelihoods. In this article, Hannah Worthen and Briony McDonagh explain how they are using historic records of floods and flood management to engage communities in Hull in new conversations and to prompt vital action. Their project, Risky Cities, was...
Doing history for climate action
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American Vikings past and present: untangling myth from reality
Historian article
There is now compelling evidence that Norse people – popularly known as Vikings – had some interaction with the First Peoples of North America. Martyn Whittock looks at how the appeal of a Viking legend has combined with archaeological discoveries to create a powerful attachment in the North American imagination...
American Vikings past and present: untangling myth from reality
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In conversation with Mark Nicholls
Historian feature
The Historian sat down with Mark Nicholls to discuss his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History, co-authored with Allen Boyer, which charts the history of the law of treason from its origins to the present day...
In conversation with Mark Nicholls
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Teaching History 65
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Replies to Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley: Always Historicise? - Richard Aldrich
13 Clarity Please! - Gavin Alexander
15 Economic Awareness through History - P. J. Rogers
21 National Curriculum History and Teacher Autonomy: The Major Challenge - Robert Phillips
25 Teaching History: Art American Experience - Sean McGrath
28 Learning about Museum Resources - Sue...
Teaching History 65
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Similarity and difference with a tasty twist
Primary History article
Polly Gillow uses ice cream, something children will readily relate to, as a means of exploring similarities between past and present, drawing on a range of sources and contexts together with practical activities including their sense of taste...
Similarity and difference with a tasty twist
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In conversation with Nicholas Radburn
Historian article
The Historian sat down with historian Nicholas Radburn to discuss his latest book, Traders in Men, which examines the role of merchants in the expansion and transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the eighteenth century.
In conversation with Nicholas Radburn
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Teaching History 55
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
Empathy and History - Ann Low-Beer
Some Reflections on Empathy in History - John Cairns
Reflections on the Empathy Debate - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley
Pupils and the Professional Historian - Neil De Marco
Some Comments on the Future of Integrated or Modular Humanities Courses in Schools -...
Teaching History 55
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 76
Posters: Communication and Sutton Hoo helmet
1. Communication Across the Ages; 2. The British Museum's Sutton Hoo Helmet
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 76
