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  • Anything but brief: Year 8 students encounter the longue durée

      Article
    Inspired by The History Manifesto, Suzanne Powell describes in this article her rationale for expanding her students’ horizons by asking them to think about change, similarity and difference on a grand scale. She sets ‘big history’ into its curricular context, and shows the way in which her students could, and...
    Anything but brief: Year 8 students encounter the longue durée

  • Industrialisation, energy and the climate crisis

      Teaching History article
    This article, written mainly by Alison Kitson with reflections on classroom experience from Nebiat Michael, focuses on teaching about the industrial revolution. It offers new ways of framing the topic, both as a result of the ‘energy binge’ on which modern civilisation is built and as the third of four fundamental turning...
    Industrialisation, energy and the climate crisis

  • Ensuring Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children do not feel unseen in the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Richard Kerridge and Helen Snelson present a brief sequence of lessons using the life of the Gypsy woman Mary Squires as a way into the changes of industrialising Britain. More significantly, they also present a compelling rationale for why history teachers should be slotting in the stories of Gypsy, Roma...
    Ensuring Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children do not feel unseen in the history classroom

  • Teaching History 170: Historians

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update – make a ‘connecting with historical Scholarship’ resolution! 08 Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance – Kerry Apps (Read article) 16 ‘This extract is no good, miss!’ Helping post-16 students to make judgements...
    Teaching History 170: Historians

  • Historical Perspective & 'Big History'

      Teaching History article
    Moving forward, looking back - historical perspective, ‘Big History' and the return of the longue durée: time to develop our scale hopping muscles ‘Big history' is a term receiving a great deal of attention at present, particularly in North America where considerable sums of money have been invested in designing curricula...
    Historical Perspective & 'Big History'

  • Teaching History 188: Representing History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know? (Read article) 10 ‘We are invisible!’ Ensuring Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children do not feel unseen in the history classroom – Richard Kerridge and Helen...
    Teaching History 188: Representing History

  • Cunning Plan 159: Putting the people into Magna Carta

      Teaching History feature
    Does your heart skip with excitement at the prospect of a Year 7 lesson on Magna Carta? No? Magna Carta may be an important part of the long-term story of royal power and individual liberties but it is not a topic that excites many teachers. If it were, teachers would...
    Cunning Plan 159: Putting the people into Magna Carta

  • Teaching History 193: Mediating History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (read article - open access) 04 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Laughing muppets, lost memories and lethal mutations: rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’ – Christine Counsell (Read article) 26 ‘If we’ve been getting their name wrong, how else have they been misrepresented?’: Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica –...
    Teaching History 193: Mediating History

  • Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

      Teaching History article
    Jane Card’s previous work on the power of images in conveying particular interpretations and her advice about how to use visual material effectively in classrooms will be familiar to readers of Teaching History. In this article she focuses specifically on the capacity of visual representations to convey a compelling message about the...
    Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

  • History and the climate crisis

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey has long been an advocate for teaching about the history of climate change. This article, co-authored with Paula Worth, David Rawlings and Dan Warner-Meanwell, first outlines key arguments from her pioneering book History and the Climate Crisis, before illustrating the range of ways in which a group of...
    History and the climate crisis

  • Teaching History 158 - A Grounding in History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Andrew Stacey-Chapman - From a compartmentalised to a complicated past: developing transferable knowledge at A-level (Read article) 16 Cunning Plan: teaching about the history of the UK Parliament - Tony McConnell (Read article) 18 Dominik Palek - 'What exactly is parliament?'...
    Teaching History 158 - A Grounding in History

  • Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    James Hopkins’s Year 10 class had been excited by their course on medicine through time, but were less enthused about their new study of Norman England. They told him that the topic felt ‘distant’ and ‘not real’. Recalling his own experience as a student, Hopkins was interested in the ways...
    Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom

  • Integrating the historical Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    How can we help students understand the Holocaust in its full historical complexity, particularly when they often come to class with misconceptions arising from the representation of the Holocaust in popular culture? Over a three-year period, Sam Ineson set out to integrate the historical Holocaust into his school’s formal and informal...
    Integrating the historical Holocaust

  • Bringing environmental history into the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Curious about the absence of the physical environment in her school’s schemes of work, and fascinated by the changing relationships between humans and landscapes in the past, history teacher and PhD researcher Verity Morgan decided to design new lessons that brought environmental history into her classroom. Rather than ‘bolting on’ new enquiries...
    Bringing environmental history into the classroom

  • Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 Falling forward: three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance – Paula Worth (Read article) 22 Bringing historical method into the classroom: how the spectacle of teachers debating can help A-level students to understand the nature of interpretations –...
    Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance

  • Teaching History 192: Breadth

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 1093 and all that: broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources – Holly Hiscox (Read article) 18 Why I teach pupils things I don’t need them to remember forever: the role of takeaways in shaping a history curriculum...
    Teaching History 192: Breadth

  • Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’

      Teaching History article
    Concerned by the growing tendency of politicians and press to revive the moral balance-sheet approach to British imperial history and by some evidence of its resurgence in schools, Alex Benger set about devising a framework which would keep pupils’ analysis rigorously historical, rather than moral and politicised. In this article,...
    Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’

  • Training for the marathon: history at Michaela

      Teaching History article
    Michael Taylor begins his piece by reminding us that writing great history essays is hard. He compares the process to running a marathon, and his central thesis is that, just as the best training for running a marathon is not running marathons, so the way to encourage students to produce...
    Training for the marathon: history at Michaela

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Historical significance

      Teaching History feature
    The idea of historical significance eludes tidy answers. It doesn’t thrive on the quick fix. Yet we do not need to be confused by it. It just requires some clear thinking about what it distinctively offers. In other words, we need to clarify overall curricular aims, and think big about...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Historical significance

  • Teaching History 154: A Sense of History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Dan Smith - Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period (Read article) 18 Katharine Burn - Making sense of the eighteenth century (Read article) 28 Cunning Plan: Layers of history (Read article) 30 Paula...
    Teaching History 154: A Sense of History

  • Historical learning using concept cartoons

      Teaching History article
    Although perhaps unfamiliar to the majority of our readers, concept cartoons are not a new educational tool. Christoph Kühberger here lays out his rationale for using this technique, borrowed from science education, in history teaching. Concept cartoons provide a means for pupils to express such difficult historical concepts as the...
    Historical learning using concept cartoons

  • Teaching History 190: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 190 As the collection of articles for this issue of Teaching History began to take shape, its title remained rather uncertain. While some of the articles referred explicitly to teaching historical significance, others focused more on teaching students the processes involved in shaping stories about the past....
    Teaching History 190: Out now

  • Teaching History 188: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 188: Representing History History teachers are familiar with the challenges that arise as we try to help our students make historical sense of past worlds. Building historical representations of the past is imaginatively demanding – it requires ‘world-making’ and narrative expertise. The challenges are probative, not merely...
    Teaching History 188: Out now

  • Teaching History 186: Removing Barriers

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 10 What did it mean to them? Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3 – Jacob Olivey (Read article) 18 It’s just reading, right? Exploring how Year 12 students approach sources – Jacqueline Vyrnwy-Pierce...
    Teaching History 186: Removing Barriers

  • The role of takeaways in shaping a history curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Jonathan Grande explains how he and his department faced up to the paradox that teaching rich detail is vital for good historical learning and is vital for students to remember in the short term, but is not essential to remember for ever. This article sets out his exploration of why...
    The role of takeaways in shaping a history curriculum