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The Reformation: the view from the north
Annual Conference 2013 Podcast
Lecture from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast
Professor Bill Sheils - University of York
The Reformation comprised a range of regional and local experiences, each with its own character and chronology. This talk will examine the broad characteristics of religious change in the north of England between...
The Reformation: the view from the north
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The International Journal Volume 11, Number 2
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Content
Editorial
History teaching, pedagogy, curriculum and politics: dialogues and debates in regional, national, transnational, international and supranational settings Robert Guyver, University of St Mark & St John, Plymouth
Australia
Scarcely an Immaculate Conception: new professionalism encounters old politics in the formation of the Australian National History Curriculum
Tony...
The International Journal Volume 11, Number 2
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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
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Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?
Podcast
2012 Annual Conference Presidential Lecture
Charles I: The People's Martyr?
Jackie Eales, HA President and Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University
Charles I was renowned for his distrust of ‘popularity'. Yet during the 1640s he was forced to appeal to his people for support and in...
Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?
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The use and abuse of a history researcher in residence
Article
The Researcher in Residence scheme, funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), brings together researchers and teachers by getting doctoral students into schools. Will Pettigrew, an expert on the Atlantic Slave trade and DPhil student at Lincoln College, Oxford worked with students and staff from the History Department...
The use and abuse of a history researcher in residence
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New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place
Journal article
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 soon find something better: conversations in which other history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations any history...
New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place
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Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A
Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series.
In this short filmed webinar, David Ingledew, senior lecturer in history education and ITE lead at the University of Hertfordshire sets out the scholarship, principles and context of questioning in the history classroom. This will be followed by a short film...
Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A
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Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust
Teaching History feature
This issue's problem: Marion Hartog is wondering how to approach teaching the Holocaust, especially with her ‘difficult' Year 9.
Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust
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Do smile before Christmas: the NQT Year
Teaching History article
Lucy Russell challenges the ancient wisdom passed down to new teachers. Addressing issues of relationships with pupils, the demands of historical learning and the new teacher's personality and integrity, she advises taking a thoroughly positive, and ambitious, view of the NQT year. NQTs should aim to move historical learning forwards....
Do smile before Christmas: the NQT Year
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Cunning Plan 175: Using the England's Immigrants database
Teaching History feature
Ever wondered if there is a streak of masochism in those designing A-level history syllabi? The absence of the Spanish Armada from the current Edexcel breadth study in favour of (among other delights) ‘the new draperies’ prompts this question. But the challenge of enthusing modern teenagers with woollen cloth can...
Cunning Plan 175: Using the England's Immigrants database
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Move Me On 173: teaching the GCSE thematic study
The problem page for history mentors
This feature of Teaching History 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...
Move Me On 173: teaching the GCSE thematic study
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Move Me On 172: Not just relying on the textbook
Teaching History journal feature
This feature of Teaching History 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...
Move Me On 172: Not just relying on the textbook
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A history trainee nearing the end of their main teaching placement
HITT Film 2
This film has been produced to accompany materials in the History Initial Teacher Training units. It contains a Key Stage 3 history lesson and lesson debrief. The materials are not designed specifically to be examples of good practice; rather they are to promote discussion about good practice in teacher training....
A history trainee nearing the end of their main teaching placement
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The New History: Theory into Practice
Classic Teaching History Pamphlets
Pleas for the 'New History' have now become so commonplace that, if implementation had in anyway matched recommendation, the term 'New' would have ceased to be appropriate. Unfortunately, there appeares to be little agreement as to what the 'New; History is or should be. In what sense, if any, can pupils...
The New History: Theory into Practice
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The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2
Journal
The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education.
Articles in the edition:
Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation'
Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2
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New, Novice or Nervous? 162: GCSE Thematic Study
Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
Thematic studies have been a long-standing feature of the Schools History Project (SHP) GCSE specifications in England and Wales; but for teachers of ‘Modern World’ GCSE specifications, the thematic study in the new GCSE specifications for teaching in England from September 2016 is unfamiliar territory. Perhaps you are entirely new...
New, Novice or Nervous? 162: GCSE Thematic Study
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History in Schools: What is the Future?
History Debate Podcast
The Future of history in our schools
Whether you have children or not, whether you're a teacher or not, if you have a love of History this debate matters to you.
History in Schools: What is the Future?
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The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'
E-CPD
N.B. This unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links. Some of the ICT references are now dated.
How do we use new technology to enhance our History teaching?
New technology...
The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'
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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
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The International Journal Volume 5 Number 2
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Articles
Lieke van WijkThe Learning and Teaching of History in Europe: EUROCLIO's Enquiries Compared
Peter Brett Citizenship and the National Curriculum
Jerome FreemanThe Current State of the 4-19 History Curriculum in England and Possible Future Developments: a QCA Perspective
Jon NicholFrom Russia with Love: a History Curriculum...
The International Journal Volume 5 Number 2
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The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1
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The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education.
Articles included in this edition:
Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1
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The International Journal Volume 5 Number 1
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François AudigierHistory in the Curriculum
Nadine Fink Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching
Philippe HaeberliRelating to History: an Empirical Typology
Peter LeeHistorical Literacy
Keith Barton and Alan W. McCullyLearning History and Inheriting the Past: the Interaction of School and Community Perspectives in Northern Ireland
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The International Journal Volume 5 Number 1
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The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2
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Jannet van Drie and Carla van BoxtelEnhancing Collaborative Historical Reasoning by Providing Representational Guidance
Nadine Fink Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching
Alan HodkinsonMaturation and the Assimilation of the Concepts of Historical Time: a Symbiotic Relationship, or Uneasy Bedfellows? An Examination of the Birth-Date Effect on Educational...
The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2
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The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1
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Editorial
Historical Consciousness, Teaching and Understanding History
Articles
Peter Lee'Walking backwards into tomorrow' Historical consciousness and understanding history
Robert Guyver and Jon NicholFrom Novice to effective Teacher: a Study of Postgraduate Training and History Pedagogy
The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1
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Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom
Teaching History feature
Big ideas, making connections, citizenship, thinking skills. We were nothing if not ambitious in our planning for this unit for a lower attaining Year 8 group at Langley School in Solihull. Having identified the big ideas which could underpin a dialogue between history and citizenship and make the connections between...
Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom