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  • Rethinking the Stone Age to Bronze Age

      Primary History article
    Every so often archaeologists make a discovery that forces you to sit up and take notice. It might challenge our traditional view of the period, or accepted beliefs about how people lived their everyday lives. One such discovery was made in the 1980s when an amateur archaeologist discovered some flint tools...
    Rethinking the Stone Age to Bronze Age

  • Move Me On 106: Teaching AS level

      Teaching History feature
    This Issues Problem: Matilda Angevin, PGCE history student, is finding it hard to get to grips with teaching AS Level.
    Move Me On 106: Teaching AS level

  • In My View: Whatever happened to...?

      Primary History article
    Older readers of the journal may well remember a classic film, Whatever happened to Baby Jane ? This article asks, and attempts to answer, two parallel questions: "Whatever happened to breadth and balance?" and "Whatever happened to history’s place in the primary curriculum?". The two questions (and their answers) are...
    In My View: Whatever happened to...?

  • Teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in the Spanish Civil War

      Teaching History article
    Teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in the Spanish Civil War

  • Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009

      Primary History article
    Towards a new primary curriculum: Cambridge Primary Review Part 1, Past and Present, Part 2, The Future - An editorial response to the Cambridge Primary Review.  Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Introduction The Cambridge Primary Review, director Robin Alexander, is the...
    Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009

  • Move Me On 109: Pressured into using teaching styles she is uncomfortable with

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Marie, PGCE history trainee, feels that she is being pressured into using teaching styles with which she feels uncomfortable. 
    Move Me On 109: Pressured into using teaching styles she is uncomfortable with

  • The Historian 7

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 The Death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Jeanne Handzic 8 The Duke of Wellington at Home, R.E Foster 10 George V. Ferguson, Canada and Appeasement, Robin Betts 13 The Dykes, J.L. Ferns 16 Social History: The Seaside Resort, John K. Walton 25 Update: The Ancien Regime, Nora Temple 28...
    The Historian 7

  • Think like an archaeologist!

      Primary History article
    Since the great brick-built cities of Mohenjodaro and Harappa were first excavated in the early twentieth century, other large and thousands of small sites have been discovered. Clay was the raw material (bricks) for Indus architecture and everyday objects. Pottery was produced in industrial quantities on the foot wheel, an...
    Think like an archaeologist!

  • New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective

      Teaching History article
    In September 2002 Citizenship becomes a completely new subject in England’s secondary schools. Jerome Freeman, Principal Officer for History with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) — the authority responsible for advising the British government on curriculum content and qualification standards in England - outlines QCA’s view on the connections...
    New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective

  • History's future: facing the challenge

      Teaching History article
    Trevor Fisher argues that pressures on our subject are now so intense and multi-faceted that a wider coalition is necessary if history is to fight back. Our difficulties are compounded, he suggests, by a lack of consensus and by acute lack of knowledge about school history among those who produce...
    History's future: facing the challenge

  • A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Ben Walsh describes some of the rationale behind the construction of the new Learning Curve exhibition on the British Empire and, in so doing, makes a strong case for placing empire generally and the British Empire in particular at the heart of historical study for all teenagers. A complex and...
    A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

  • The Queen in procession

      Primary History article
    Today’s children in reception and nursery were probably not born at the last jubilee and it is possible that they will not remember this one, nevertheless they will have the chance to be part of this historic occasion. If we help prepare them to understand what is going to happen...
    The Queen in procession

  • Dora Thewlis: Mill girl activist

      Primary History article
    Dora Thewlis was born in 1890 in Yorkshire to a family of textile workers employed in the mills around the Huddersfield Canal. She followed her mother and elder siblings into the mill at the age of 10, earning around £1 a week. Dora’s family, and especially her mother, were very...
    Dora Thewlis: Mill girl activist

  • Cunning Plan 102.1: teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid

      Article
    Cunning Plan for teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid to 13 and 14 year-olds. The rationale behind this teaching unit is manifold: first, it takes away the idea in the children’s minds that all that happened in the twentieth century is world war. Second, it is designed to appeal...
    Cunning Plan 102.1: teaching decolonisation and the end of apartheid

  • The Historian 106: President Barack Obama and the State of the Union Address

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Editorial 5 The President's Column - Anne Curry 6 President Barack Obama and the State of the Union Address - Michael Dunne (Read Article) 13 Remembering Neville Chamberlain - Brent Dyck (Read Article) 15 Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust? - Sarah Newman (Read Article) 20 The Advent of Decimalisation in...
    The Historian 106: President Barack Obama and the State of the Union Address

  • The Historian 102: 'Catch me if you can'?

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 ‘The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30 - W. A. Spech (Read Article) 11 President's Column 12 Cartoons and the historian - Roy Douglas (Read Article) 19 Anorexia Nervosa in the nineteenth century - A. D. Harvey (Read Article) 20 "Catch Me Who Can"? Richard...
    The Historian 102: 'Catch me if you can'?

  • How have schools interpreted the new EYFS Framework?

      Primary History article
    The new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework became statutory from this September (2021). Although the seven areas of learning and development remain unchanged (including Understanding the World), the Early Learning Goals (ELGs) have changed within each of these areas. These new ELGs have been written so that they are...
    How have schools interpreted the new EYFS Framework?

  • Getting ready for the Grand Prix: Learning how to build a substantial argument in year 7

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Dale Banham’s Grand Prix race has helped many history teachers in Suffolk to think freshly about metaphors and images that will inspire and enable pupils (especially underachieving boys) to write analytically and at length. In...
    Getting ready for the Grand Prix: Learning how to build a substantial argument in year 7

  • Move Me On 104: Establishing lesson goals

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Bill norman, PGCE History student, is struggling with lesson goals.
    Move Me On 104: Establishing lesson goals

  • Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives,...
    Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

  • And Joe arrives...: stretching the very able pupil in the mixed ability classroom

      Articles
    Kate Hammond examines a sequence of three history lessons in order to evaluate techniques for stretching a very able 11 year-old. She adopts a complex blend of differentiation strategies. Rather than merely bolting on ‘extension activities', she starts with demanding objectives for all, as the whole-class entitlement. She then attempts...
    And Joe arrives...: stretching the very able pupil in the mixed ability classroom

  • The Historian 104: Culture Shock

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 Culture Shock: The Arrival of the Conquistadores in Aztec Mexico - Jenni Hyde (Read Article) 13 The President's Column - Anne Curry 14 Hammer, House of Horror: The making of a British film company, 1934 to 1979 - John Springhall (Read Article) 20 Men's Beards and Women's...
    The Historian 104: Culture Shock

  • Sources for the Great Fire of London and its context

      Primary History feature
    Nina Sprigge reveals two interesting sources that can supplement teaching the Fire of London.   Fire of London: fundraising for refugees The receipt on the back cover provides evidence of national fundraising in 1666. It is touching that people from Cowfold, a little village outside London, cared enough to want to...
    Sources for the Great Fire of London and its context

  • Britain's settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

      Primary History Article
    Anglo-Saxons have been a part of the primary national curriculum from the onset so they may not be as unfamiliar to teachers as some themes. Many teachers also report that pupils enjoy studying them so there is clearly much in their favour. That does not mean, however, that all is...
    Britain's settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

  • Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

      Teaching History article
    How do we help pupils to write better paragraphs without actually doing it for them? How do we break down the process of essay writing into smaller steps without taking away pupils’ sense of the essay as a whole? How do we give lower-attaining pupils models, structures and frames without...
    Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion