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  • Cunning Plan 152.1: visual sources

      Teaching History feature
    The principles outlined here were developed in response to three key concerns. The first was consideration of the needs of students learning English as an additional language who face particular challenges with reading and writing. Images could perhaps offer them more direct, less abstract, ways into an understanding of challenging...
    Cunning Plan 152.1: visual sources

  • A comparative revolution?

      Teaching History Article
    Although the curriculum changes of 2008 brought with them new GCSE specifications, Jonathan White was disappointed by the dated feel of some ‘Modern World' options, particularly the depth studies on offer. Drawing on his experience of teaching comparative history within the International Baccalaureate, and building on previous arguments in Teaching History...
    A comparative revolution?

  • 'Right well kept': Peterborough Abbey 1536-1539

      Historian article
    Although the reasons for and the process of dissolution in Peterborough Abbey compare closely to all other religious houses, the consequences were unique. Peterborough received favourable treatment and so emerged from the dissolution as one of six abbeys to be transformed into new cathedrals. The changes imposed on Peterborough were...
    'Right well kept': Peterborough Abbey 1536-1539

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the ‘no-quick-fix’
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll find something better: conversations in which history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

  • Cunning Plan 162: Transferring knowledge from Key Stage 3 to 4

      Teaching History feature
    Planning to deliver the new GCSE specifications presents a challenge and an opportunity to any history department, whatever their previous specification. The sweep of history that students will now study at GCSE is much broader than ‘Modern World’ departments are used to; including a medieval or early modern depth study...
    Cunning Plan 162: Transferring knowledge from Key Stage 3 to 4

  • The knowledge illusion

      Teaching History article
    Focusing on students’ attempts to explain the relative significance of different factors in Hitler’s rise to power, Catherine McCrory explores the vexed question of why students who seem able to express necessary historical knowledge on one occasion cannot effectively reproduce it on another. Drawing on a detailed analysis of what...
    The knowledge illusion

  • Poland

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Podcast: Twentieth-century Poland  Podcast: British-Polish relations and the British Polish community Polychronicon: Why did the Cold War End? Podcast: The USSR and Eastern Europe  Film: The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania (1772-1795): Repercussions for German-Polish Relations and their Legacy Resources from other organisations Beyond Borders: Polish-British Cultural Connections (Polish Cultural Institute, London; resources by Helen...
    Poland

  • Russia & the USSR

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    USSR An HA Podcasted History of the USSR Stalinism Between the Revolutions Nazism and Stalinism – suitable case for comparison? Stalin 6th form podcast Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror  After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain 
    Russia & the USSR

  • Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr? King Charles I The Personal Rule of Charles I 1629-40 Polychronichon – interpreting the revolution of 1688 Cunning Plan King Charles II Jacobinism The Jacobites Oliver Cromwell HA Podcasts: From James to Anne
    Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England

  • The Normans

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Norman Conquest The Origins of the Norman Conquest The Norman Conquest: why did it matter? KeynoteSpeech from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast 1066: The Limits of our Knowledge Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of...
    The Normans

  • BBC Class Clips: ‘ClueTubers’ with Carmel Bones

      History KS3 / GCSE
    Education consultant Carmel Bones presents this BBC Class Clips video introducing ‘ClueTubers’ - a suite of films that will help students get to grips with the skills required to investigate historic sites. The video is aimed at GCSE and National 5 History teachers and gives an overview of the ‘ClueTubers’ films and...
    BBC Class Clips: ‘ClueTubers’ with Carmel Bones

  • My Favourite History Place - Sackville College, East Grinstead

      Historian feature
    Sackville College almshouse in East Grinstead, Sussex, was founded in 1609, by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset, when he wrote his will. He died 17 days later without seeing one stone laid, yet the College still stands, providing affordable accommodation for local elderly people of limited means. It is...
    My Favourite History Place - Sackville College, East Grinstead

  • 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

  • Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking

      Teaching History article
    Did Alexander really ask, ‘Do I appear to you to be a bastard?' Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking Beth Baker and Steven Mastin make the case for teaching ancient history in the post-14 curriculum. Pointing out the damaging messages that could be conveyed by assuming that ancient...
    Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking

  • Using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry

      Teaching History article
    The idea of using ‘little stories' to illuminate the ‘big pictures' of the past was creatively explored in Teaching History 107, which offered teachers a wealth of detailed vignettes with which to kindle young people's interest and illuminate major historical events. Paul Barrett builds on the ideas explored in that...
    Using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry

  • 'Picture This': A simple technique to teach complex concepts

      Teaching History article
    When Peter Clements was introduced to the creative strategy that he describes in this article, his immediate reaction was to dismiss it as childish and trivial. Yet, upon closer examination, he realised that ‘Picture This' offered far more than a lively way of increasing variety and engagement in his GCSE...
    'Picture This': A simple technique to teach complex concepts

  • The Cold War - Period Study

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    HA Podcasted History: The Cold War Foundations of the Cold War: Key figures Cold War revision aid and interpretation guide The Cold War: GCSE fact sheet Politics, history and stories about the Cold War - Designing enquiries to make students think about interpretations of the Cold War Polychronicon 166: The...
    The Cold War - Period Study

  • The United States

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    The Effect of the Loss of American Colonies Captain Thomas and the North West Passage American War of Independence Thomas Paine Expanding the reach of the American Revolution The American West Harnessing the power of academia to improve teaching of US political history Interpreting 'The Birth of a Nation' Podcast:...
    The United States

  • Power and Democracy - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Power and Democracy
    Power and Democracy - GCSE

  • 'Now listen to Source A' : Music and History

      Teaching History article
    In Steve Mastin’s classroom, pupils do not just read, look at and observe their historical sources. They listen to them. Steve’s classroom is already full of music. He uses it variously - to focus, settle or simply to expand the cultural curiosity of his pupils. Pupils expect to walk in...
    'Now listen to Source A' : Music and History

  • 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

  • 'What's that stuff you're listening to Sir?' Rock and pop music as a rich source for historical enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Building on the wonderful articles by Mastin and Sweerts & Grice in TH 108, Simon Butler urges us here to make greater use of rock and pop music in history classrooms. His reasons are persuasive. First, it provides a rich vein of initial stimulus material to tap, helping us to...
    'What's that stuff you're listening to Sir?' Rock and pop music as a rich source for historical enquiry

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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