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  • Liaising with Others - Quick Links

      List of Articles
    Liasing with Others (Links) Liaising with an historian: ‘Miss, did this really happen here?' Exploring big overviews through local depthLiaising with the community: Teaching the very recent past: ‘Miriam's Vision' and the London bombingsLiaising with the academy: Using time-lines in assessmentLiaising with an historian: Taking new historical research into the...
    Liaising with Others - Quick Links

  • Teaching History 138: Enriching History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Alf Wilkinson: Making cross-curricular links in history: some ways forward (Read article) 08 James Woodcock: Disciplining cross-curricularity? Cottenham Village College history department's inter-disciplinary projects: an evaluation (Read article) 13 Michael Monaghan: Having ‘Great Expectations' of Year 9 Inter-disciplinary work between English and history...
    Teaching History 138: Enriching History

  • Developing effective collaboration between schools and universities

      Teaching History article
    Sarah Longair launched a collaborative project between school history teachers and university historians in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this article, Longair and her teacher colleagues, Kerry Milligan and Emma McKenna, share how they used online collaboration to develop a flexible and practical approach to school–university collaboration, and...
    Developing effective collaboration between schools and universities

  • Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership

      Teaching History article
    Eliza West and Emily Toettcher explain how a partnership between school and museum has evolved into a four-year enquiry into local history. The article focuses on the successful introduction of an oral history element in the GCSE syllabus and how the investigation into ‘remembered’ history helps students to appreciate the complexities of truth...
    Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership

  • Disciplining cross-curricularity?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Why should we think in inter-disciplinary rather than cross-curricular terms when planning collaborative work with colleagues in other subjects? What scope is there for working in inter-disciplinary ways and what is the value of such...
    Disciplining cross-curricularity?

  • Active remembrance

      Teaching History article
    A year after the end of the First World War, George V stated: "I believe that my people in every part of the Empire fervently wish to perpetuate the memory of the Great Deliverance and those who laid down their lives to achieve it." From that moment, the idea of large-scale remembrance...
    Active remembrance

  • 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?

  • Move Me On 147: Making Analogies Meaningful

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Emma Norman finds the analogies that she's using to make historical ideas meaningful end up distracting or confusing the students. Emma has come into history teaching after a number of years at home looking after children. Her previous work was as a fundraiser for an environmental campaign group,...
    Move Me On 147: Making Analogies Meaningful

  • Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons

      Journal article
    Why ‘do’ local history? The new (grades 9–1) GCSE specifications place a lot of importance on the local environment. The rationale for this is to get students to situate a site in its historical context, and to examine the relationship between local and national developments. Initially this change was the...
    Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons

  • From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors

      Journal article
    Across the globe, the centenary of World War I has prompted the creation of new exhibitions devoted to its commemoration. In New Zealand, Michael Harcourt wanted to explore whether teaching strategies intended to help students to engage critically with such exhibitions would have any lasting impact on the young people’s...
    From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors

  • Learning without limits

      Teaching History article
    Richard Kerridge writes here about his efforts to help students to overcome an experience that was once his own: of being labelled low-ability, with all the attendant lowering of expectations that this entails. He recognises the merits of rigorously ensuring that all students should be able to access their entitlement...
    Learning without limits

  • Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

      Article
    Connecting Classrooms: bringing together Bradford and Peshawar, primary and secondary schools, history and English In this article, Dianne Excell shares her experience of a crossphase, collaborative project funded by the British Council that brought together teachers and pupils from three schools in Bradford and five schools in Peshawar, Pakistan. Although...
    Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

  • My Favourite History Place - Magdeburg

      Historian feature
    Magdeburg (‘Magdeburg überascht') is situated on the banks of the River Elbe in the state of Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. First mentioned by Charlemagne in 805, Magdeburgtoday attracts much attention by being a major historic venue on the Straße der Romanik or Romanesque Route that has opened up a large number of...
    My Favourite History Place - Magdeburg

  • History, music and law: commemorative cross-curricularity

      Teaching History article
    James Woodcock continues his theme from Teaching History 138 about the difference between superficial, thematic cross-curricularity and much more rigorous interdisciplinarity. His concern is to retain rather than compromise the integrity of the subject disciplines. Woodcock argues that interdisciplinary working adds value to learning only when the knowledge and the distinctive...
    History, music and law: commemorative cross-curricularity

  • A Local History Toolkit

      Article
    IntroductionIn this short paper you will discover some of the tools for ‘doing' local history. They are based on where I live: you can get similar types of sources from where you live, work or teach. Your main source will be a local library or record office, but there is...
    A Local History Toolkit

  • Developing meaningful cross-curricular approaches

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Some history departments find themselves under pressure to incorporate skills and competences from alternative curricula. Others find that with the pressure to ease transition issues in Year 7, history can almost disappear into an amalgam...
    Developing meaningful cross-curricular approaches

  • Making cross-curricular links in history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Alf Wilkinson has been working as ‘National Subject Lead' for History, co-ordinating a programme of support for schools, funded by the DCSF and delivered in partnership with the Historical Association and the CfBT. Here he...
    Making cross-curricular links in history

  • Triumphs Show 182: A public lecture series

      Teaching History feature
    The history we present to students, however rigorous and challenging, and however full of integrity in eflecting history as a discipline, is a shiny show of our best resources. Peeling back this curtain and allowing students to see the real world of academic history was a major motivation in inviting some...
    Triumphs Show 182: A public lecture series

  • Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Jess Angell shows how her department seeks to make extra-curricular activities accessible to all. There is a strong focus on involving professional historians, since so many students seem not to understand who historians are, or what they do. But the audience is wider than just history students:...
    Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history

  • Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning

      Teaching History article
    Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning: Year 9 dig out maps and rulers to challenge generalisations about the Age of Discovery Paula Worth presents in this article a means of challenging students' tendency to generalise even when they know that they should not. How can we encourage our students...
    Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning

  • 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

  • What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Alternative curriculum models can take many forms. Some seem to be imposed on reluctant history teachers with little opportunity for planning. Other teachers are given the opportunity to really embed and revise models that might...
    What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning

  • 'How do ideas travel?' East meets west - and history meets science

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jamie Byrom is well-known to readers of Teaching History, not least for introducing us to the concept ‘professional wrestling' in the history department (Teaching History,133, Empire Edition). That article, authored with Michael Riley, focused on...
    'How do ideas travel?' East meets west - and history meets science

  • Herbert Art Gallery Coventry - History Centre

      Visit
    Herbert Art Gallery and Museum's brand new History Centre is a treasure trove of information on the history of Coventry and its citizens from medieval times to the present .The huge range of original documents includes books, maps, newspapers, electoral registers and building plans. Photographs, oral history, microfilms and internet sources...
    Herbert Art Gallery Coventry - History Centre

  • Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What should we do with our brightest and best? Neal Watkin and Johannes Ahrenfelt suggest an enquiry for a very high ability Year 8 group which is both challenging and genuinely historical. The enquiry itself...
    Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry