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  • Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience

      Teaching History feature
    Teaching a class of newly arrived immigrant teenagers from various backgrounds and ethnicities poses many interesting challenges: varied levels of schooling, varied levels of mastery in a new language, no common frame of reference, varied ways of understanding and making sense of the world and very varied ways of making...
    Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience

  • England's Immigrants 1330-1550

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcast with Professor Mark Ormrod of the University of York looking at the research project England's Immigrants 1330-1550.  In this podcast Professor Ormrod explores the extensive archival evidence about the names, origins, occupations and households of a significant number of foreigners who chose to make their lives and livelihoods in...
    England's Immigrants 1330-1550

  • Move Me On 149: how to provide appropriate support for particular students

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Helen Troy is uncertain how to provide appropriate support for certain students without restricting what they can achieve. Helen showed considerable determination in securing her teacher training place. Her own education had been within a highly selective school system and her first application was unsuccessful because of...
    Move Me On 149: how to provide appropriate support for particular students

  • Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

      Teaching History article
    The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) is a Cyprus-based organization that works to foster dialogue among history teachers and other educators across the divide in Cyprus. In one of their UN-funded projects, ADHR members worked with UK colleagues to shape a lesson sequence and resources on the Ottoman period...
    Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

  • Competition and counterfactuals without confusion

      Teaching History article
    Paula Worth was searching not only for a rigorous question, capable of engendering genuine debate, but also for an engaging and enjoyable activity that would secure GCSE students' substantive knowledge. The answer - or rather the question - lay in counterfactual thinking: a carefully crafted game that she devised, based...
    Competition and counterfactuals without confusion

  • Thinking about local history - Step by step local study

      Article
    The short walk from our school to St Mary's Parish Church, Leyton, takes us past late Victorian terraces, post-Second World War apartment blocks and early twentyfirst century social housing in one of the most densely populated and ethnically diverse parts of East London, sandwiched as it is between Stratford and...
    Thinking about local history - Step by step local study

  • Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

      Teaching History feature
    Using pupil dialogue to encourage sophisticated engagement with source material - even at GCSE! Frustrated by the mechanistic approach that their pupils were using when working with historical sources, Tim Jenner and Paul Nightingale sought to experiment with a method of teaching sources which eschewed practice source questions in favour...
    Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

  • The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment

      Podcast
    Between circa 1690 and 1820 the number of crimes punishable by the death penalty grew from 50 to over 200. This short podcast will help to explain why this trend developed.
    The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment

  • Crime and Punishment - Roman to Early Modern

      Podcast
    This podcast gives you an overview of the main changes and continuities in crime, punishment, trials and policing between the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Early Modern Period. Rome to Early Modern Crime and Punishment>>>
    Crime and Punishment - Roman to Early Modern

  • Roman Crime and Punishment

      Podcast
    The Romans are known as forward thinkers who were well advanced for their time.  But did they manage to conquer crime? Listen to this podcast to find out.
    Roman Crime and Punishment

  • Crime & Punishment - Factors and Time Periods

      Podcast
    The history of crime and punishment across time spreads over 2500 years. It is really important that you have a way of making sense of this. In this podcast you will hear how the course has been divided into time periods, and learn about the main factors that affect crime,...
    Crime & Punishment - Factors and Time Periods

  • Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

      Teaching History feature
    The following plan provides a more detailed practical example of the approaches discussed in the article on using ancient texts. Having puzzled over what ancient texts actually are - carefully constructed interpretations? testimonies? (but testimonies to what?) myths? - I wanted my Ancient History GCSE class to engage in this...
    Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

  • 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

  • Hidden histories and heroism: post-14 course on multi-cultural Britain since 1945

      Teaching History Article
    A school-designed, post-14 course on multi-cultural Britain since 1945  Robin Whitburn and Sharon Yemoh describe the design of a school-generated GCSE course on the challenges that British people faced in forging a multicultural society in post-imperial Britain. Drawing on their own research into their students' experience, they build a discipline-based case...
    Hidden histories and heroism: post-14 course on multi-cultural Britain since 1945

  • Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider coherence at Key Stage 4. We will reflect on using sequencing to establish coherence, how different categories of coherence can be used to inform our planning and delivery of GCSE, and how meaningful approaches to assessment will allow pupils’...
    Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

  • Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3

      Time and Place
    English Heritage and the Historical Association have teamed up to provide this great new CPD guide to getting the most out of local historical sites with your classes. This easy to follow unit provides the basis for an entire unit of local study using the built heritage around you. Examples...
    Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3

  • Crime and Punishment Through Time

      GCSE Topic Pack
    Crime and Punishment is a development study that forms part of the SHP GCSE history course. It traces the concepts of, attitudes and approaches to crime and punishment and the maintainence of law and order through time.  This helpful summary, written by a recent student, for students will guide you...
    Crime and Punishment Through Time

  • Podcast Series: Britain's Changing Population

      Podcasted history
    In Part 3 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK we look at diversity in the UK and examine African and Caribbean UK History, South Asian UK History and British Chinese History.  The first set of podcasts feature Dr Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood, Dr Sumita Mukherjee & Dr...
    Podcast Series: Britain's Changing Population

  • The Irish in Britain 1815-1914

      Classic Pamphlet
    Irish migration to Britain has a long and chequered history, yet only in recent years have historians examined this subject in depth, through a growing body of local, regional and national studies which have supplemented the earlier pioneering research of J. E. Handley and J. A. Jackson. These studies have...
    The Irish in Britain 1815-1914

  • Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Roger Wendover has come to define GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions. Roger is a few weeks into his second placement and his mentor, John, has been taken aback by the rigid approach that he has adopted in teaching Year 10. John was...
    Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions

  • Exploring diversity at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Having already reflected on ways of improving their students' understanding of historical diversity at Key Stage 3, Joanne Philpott and Daniel Guiney set themselves the challenge of extending this to post-14 students by means of fieldwork activities at First World War battlefields sites. In addition, they wanted to link the study...
    Exploring diversity at GCSE

  • Podcast Series: Religion in the UK

      Multipage Article
    In Part 5 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK 1800-present we look at religion in the U.K. This set of podcasts features Dr Janice Holmes of the Open University, Revd Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean, Fellow, and Director of Studies in Theology at King's College, Andrew Copson,...
    Podcast Series: Religion in the UK

  • Podcast Series: The Vikings

      Podcasted history
    An HA Podcasted History of the Vikings featuring Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge.
    Podcast Series: The Vikings

  • Assessment of students' uses of evidence

      Teaching History article
    Drawing on her research into students' evidential reasoning, Elisabeth Pickles explores the possibilities for how such reasoning might be assessed. Existing exam mark schemes focus too heavily on generic processes involved in the analysis of source material and insufficiently on the historical validity of reasoning and conclusions produced. Approaching the...
    Assessment of students' uses of evidence

  • Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire

      Teaching History journal feature
    I wanted to give my Year 8 students ownership of their work on the British Empire by allowing them to suggest our ‘enquiry question'. In order to introduce the Empire, I brought in sugar, spices, bananas, chilli peppers and cotton. I then showed maps demonstrating the Empire at its height....
    Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire