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  • Teaching History 134: Local Voices

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance – Geraint Brown and James Woodcock (Read article) 12 Cunning Plan: Local history at KS3 – Dan Moorhouse (Read article) 15 Nutshell 16 Riots, railways and a Hampshire hill fort: exploiting local...
    Teaching History 134: Local Voices

  • Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the KS3 history curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Dan Lyndon-Cohen makes the case that history departments should move from diversifying the curriculum to decolonising it. After reflecting on some examples of how he made the content of his lessons more representative, he explores how the influence of writers such as Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Emma Dabiri...
    Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the KS3 history curriculum

  • Move Me On 183: sees no reason to include Black or Asian British history

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 183: sees no reason to include Black or Asian British history

  • Teaching History 147: Curriculum Architecture

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial  03 HA Secondary News  04 HA Update  08 Beth Baker and Steven Mastin - Did Alexander really ask, ‘Do I appear to you to be a bastard?' Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking (Read article) 14 Cunning Plan: Getting students to use classical texts - Beth Baker...
    Teaching History 147: Curriculum Architecture

  • Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

      Teaching History feature
    History teachers have been talking about the need to teach broad narratives, overview and chronology for a long time. They have also recognised how essential it is for students to have an opportunity to study the ways in which the past has been interpreted, and the reasons why these interpretations...
    Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

  • Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    Is this climate change lesson geography or history, Miss? When thinking about teaching climate change in schools we often associate it with subjects like geography or even science, but we hardly think about history. And yet, history has as much claim on this topic as other subjects do, especially when...
    Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum

  • The potential of secondary history to respond to the current ecological and climate crisis

      Teaching History article
    In this article Michael Riley and Alison Kitson seek to unlock the potential of the secondary history curriculum to educate young people about the current ecological and climate crisis in ways that might also inform their thinking about how to create a more sustainable future. The article (which mirrors a parallel...
    The potential of secondary history to respond to the current ecological and climate crisis

  • Teaching History 146: Teacher Knowledge

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial  03 HA Secondary News  04 Letters  05 HA update  09 Elizabeth Carr: How Victorian were the Victorians? Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society (Read article) 18 Robin Whitburn, Michelle Hussain and Abdullahi Mohamud ‘Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in...
    Teaching History 146: Teacher Knowledge

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the history of Australia

      Teaching History feature
    In 1968, in his Boyer Lectures, the anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner argued that Australia’s sense of its past, its collective memory, had been built on a state of forgetting: It is a structural matter, a view from a window which has been carefully placed to exclude a whole quadrant of the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the history of Australia

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    What do 14 Year 7 students, an art teacher, a history teacher and the Victoria and Albert Museum have in common? They are all part of the ‘Stronger Together' Museum Champion project run by The Langley Academy and the River & Rowing Museum and supported by Arts Council England, designed to...
    Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?

  • Broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources

      Teaching History article
    Hiscox wanted to broaden her students’ understanding of the complexity of the British past, and developed an enquiry into the Norman Conquest of Wales to help achieve that aim. Hiscox reports her enquiry design and its outcomes, sharing how she broadened both content and the types of sources that students...
    Broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources

  • Why history teachers should not be afraid to venture into the long eighteenth century

      Teaching History article
    As ardent advocates of eighteenth-century history, Rhian Fender and Stephen Ragdale were determined to ensure that the period found a secure place within their department’s Key Stage 3 curriculum. Given the extraordinary range of contrasts that epitomise the long eighteenth century, and only ten lessons within which to explore them,...
    Why history teachers should not be afraid to venture into the long eighteenth century

  • Polychronicon 147: Witchcraft, history and children

      Teaching History feature
    Witchcraft is serious history. 1612 marks the 400th anniversary of England's biggest peacetime witch trial, that of the Lancashire witches: 20 witches from the Forest of Pendle were imprisoned, ten were hanged in Lancaster, and another in York. As a result of some imaginative commemorative programmes, a number of schools...
    Polychronicon 147: Witchcraft, history and children

  • Getting medieval (and global) at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Taking new historical research into the classroom: getting medieval (and global) at Key Stage 3 Although history teachers frequently work with academic historical writing, direct face-to-face encounters with academic historians are rare in secondary history classrooms. This article reports a collaboration between an academic historian and a history teacher that...
    Getting medieval (and global) at Key Stage 3

  • Acquainted or intimate? Background knowledge and subsequent learning

      Teaching History journal article
    Heather Fearn was intrigued by the factors that might have led her higher-performing students to talk in historically mature ways about unseen sources without any prior knowledge of the topic in hand. She began to wonder if what she was hearing was not best accounted for by a content-free disciplinary...
    Acquainted or intimate? Background knowledge and subsequent learning

  • Teaching History 108: Performing History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History: Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi, International relations at GCSE, Using historical fiction in the history classroom, How useful is the music of African-Americans to historians, Using film at AS/A2 Level, Music and history, The unique contribution of theatre to...
    Teaching History 108: Performing History

  • 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

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Consequence

      Teaching History feature
    Consequence easily becomes ‘causation’s forgotten sibling’, as Fordham noted, in the title of a workshop presented at the 2012 Historical Association conference. The choice to treat consequence separately from causation in this series of articles is, therefore, a very deliberate one. Yet an emphasis on the importance of consequences should...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Consequence

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 159: Writing history essays

      Teaching History feature
    Until the 1990s, it was unusual for the majority of England's secondary school students to write history essays. The traditional essay was a staple of the old History O Level examinations, but fewer than 20% of pupils did these history exams. In the 1980s, various history teachers became increasingly concerned...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 159: Writing history essays

  • 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

  • New alchemy or fatal attraction? History and citizenship

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The citizenship curriculum at both Key Stages 3 and 4 is currently being redefined and much has been said recently about the contribution that history could or should make to citizenship agendas and to the...
    New alchemy or fatal attraction? History and citizenship

  • Who inherits the house? Using heritage to shape pupils’ thinking about historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on the reasons why generic models for teaching historical significance are never quite adequate, Rachel Foster found herself considering, instead, the specific contexts in which arguments about historical significance arise.  These reflections took her to the fascinating example of stately homes. Drawing on scholarship such as that of Peter...
    Who inherits the house? Using heritage to shape pupils’ thinking about historical significance

  • Polychronicon 134: The Great War and Cultural History

      Teaching History feature
    Over the past two decades the historiography of the Great War has witnessed something of a revolution. Although historical revisionism is, of course, nothing out of the ordinary, the speed with which long-held assumptions about the First World War and its impact have been swept away has been quite astonishing....
    Polychronicon 134: The Great War and Cultural History

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Chinese history?

      Teaching History feature
    Teaching Chinese history in the UK runs up against some immediate obstacles. It lacks the familiar staging posts of European history: Chairman Mao is among the few well-known names, and terms such as Cultural Revolution and Opium War may attract recognition, but are often not understood in detail. The situation...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Chinese history?