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  • Varieties of Reformation

      Classic Pamphlet
    The most significant change to have occurred in our view of the Reformation in recent years is the growing acknowledgement of historians that it was no unitary phenomenon whose triumph was assured and inevitable. What we refer to in short-hand as ‘the' Reformation was a many-sided affair which began with...
    Varieties of Reformation

  • King John

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the opinion of Stubbs King John was totally, not even competently, bad... Stubbs was the predominant, but no the sole voice of his generation. J.R. Green was already claiming that John was ‘the ablest and most ruthless of the Angevins... In the rapidity and breadth of this political combination...
    King John

  • The Albigensian Crusade

      Classic Pamphlet
    At the time of the First Crusade southern France was strongly Catholic: the army led by Raymond IV of Toulouse was the largest single force to take part in the expedition and was recruited from all classes. Yet eighty years later the Count's grandson, Raymond V, sent this appeal form...
    The Albigensian Crusade

  • We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

      We Also Served
    In search of the story of British Asian Veterans of World War Two.‘We also served' is a moving short film, which follows pupils from Beardwood and St Bede's high schools as they research why the contribution of these soldiers is not more widely recognised.
    We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

  • Revising the Elizabethans

      Revising the Elizabethans
    In this series of podcasts Andy Harmsworth offers some advice and suggestions to help you when revising the Elizabethans for the GCSE History Exam.
    Revising the Elizabethans

  • Drop the dead dictator: a Year 9 newsroom simulation

      Teaching History article
    Rosalind Stirzaker has big ambitions for her students. She wants them to do more than make a simple list of the key causes of the Second World War. Yes, she wants them to complete a piece of written work, but she wants – and gets – a great deal more...
    Drop the dead dictator: a Year 9 newsroom simulation

  • The Lords of Renaissance Italy

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Lords of Renaissance Italy: the signori, 1250-1500 Among the many city states into which Italy was divided in the late medieval and early modern period, the republics of Florence and Venice are comparatively well known. Republicanism was not, however, the most common form of government. This pamphlet deals with states...
    The Lords of Renaissance Italy

  • Chartism

      Classic Pamphlet
    It is not surprising that Chartism has attracted a great deal of interest from historians and students, for at no other period in British history, with the possible exception of the second and third decades of the twentieth century, has so much excitement and activity been aroused at the working-class...
    Chartism

  • Unpacking the enquiry puzzle

      Teaching History article
    The defining qualities of a good enquiry question have been regularly revisited by contributors to Teaching History in the 25 years since Riley first outlined what he saw as three essential characteristics. Despite these endeavours, Ben Arscott notes that the properties of a good enquiry question remain somewhat elusive. His...
    Unpacking the enquiry puzzle

  • Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote to bring environmental history into the curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    It was during a rainy Tuesday breaktime that I realised why I was so flippant about including environmental history in my curriculum. ‘The climate, you see,’  I said to my colleague Tamsin as I double-boiled the staffroom kettle, ‘can’t challenge you when you don’t include it.’ Kate Hawkey’s book History and the Climate...
    Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote to bring environmental history into the curriculum

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... schooling and the British Empire

      Teaching History feature
    The history of schooling and the British Empire encompasses a complex body of literature.  Histories of formal education intersect with work on race, class and capitalism and link to adjacent fields such as histories of childhood. A basic contention shared throughout this field, however, is that there was a profound...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... schooling and the British Empire

  • Reading with other readers in mind

      Teaching History article
    Peter Turner, along with his colleagues, wished to design a cross-curricular activity for post-16 students in history and English. The enquiry they devised addressed the issue of the changing reception of the classic novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the immediate aftermath of its publication, and...
    Reading with other readers in mind

  • The Tenth Grade tells Bismarck what to do: using structured role-play to eliminate hindsight in assessing historical motivation

      Teaching History article
    Neomi Shiloah and Edna Shoham show how history teachers in Israel have begun to move away from traditional talk-and-chalk based teaching. They describe a blend of role-play and ICT that not only grabs pupils’ attention and caters for different styles of learning but also helps pupils to appreciate the difficulties...
    The Tenth Grade tells Bismarck what to do: using structured role-play to eliminate hindsight in assessing historical motivation

  • Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by Jeanne Theoharis’s biography of Rosa Parks, Ed Durbin initially planned to challenge the ‘fable’ that had been constructed around her life. He soon realised, however, that he wanted to take the opportunity to get ‘behind’ the fable and help his students understand how and why it had been constructed. Drawing...
    Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9

  • Why do we continue to study the Holocaust?

      Teaching History article
    Educators at Imperial War Museums (IWM) have been leading voices in Holocaust education since the Holocaust Exhibition opened at IWM London in June 2000. In this article, Clare Lawlor shares the design of IWM’s new Holocaust Learning Programme for schools, and the pedagogic research that underpinned the design process. The...
    Why do we continue to study the Holocaust?

  • Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum

      Teaching History feature
    This Cunning Plan details an enquiry that I developed in order to achieve two curricular goals: to diversify our historical content and to help students to improve their disciplinary thinking and writing about similarity and difference. The enquiry addresses medieval Africa, specifically the East African kingdom of Aksum (approximately 300...
    Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... immigration in French history

      Historian feature
    3 July 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of a significant, yet little known, event in French history: the declaration of an end to the recruitment of economic migrants. Over the previous decades, some three million migrant workers had arrived to surprisingly little fanfare, building the economic growth later mythologized by...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... immigration in French history

  • Come together: putting popular music at the heart of historical enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Drawing on a wide range of history teachers’ existing published work and presenting diverse examples of his own practice, David Ingledew builds a thorough curricular and pedagogic rationale for using popular music in history teaching. He shows how lyrics and music can be used as stimulus for various kinds of analysis and...
    Come together: putting popular music at the heart of historical enquiry

  • Triumphs Show: Recovering the queer history of Weimar Germany in GCSE history

      Teaching History feature
    Berlin staged its first Christopher Street Day celebration in 1979. This queer pride event commemorated the Stonewall riots that took place a decade earlier in New York City, and it has continued to be a popular annual event in Germany. Its celebration of a landmark moment in American history, however,...
    Triumphs Show: Recovering the queer history of Weimar Germany in GCSE history

  • Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica

      Teaching History article
    After discussing a new book about the Mexica (Aztecs) during a routine meeting with a trainee teacher, Niamh Jennings decided to construct a sequence of lessons around the history of the Mexica Empire. Struck by the vivid storytelling of historian Camilla Townsend in her book Fifth Sun, and fascinated by...
    Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica

  • Studying our own school’s archives to promote historical understanding in Year 7

      Teaching History article
    Helen Southwood here sets out an example of a hyperlocal history study the focus of which is her own school. She presents a rationale both for the study of hyperlocal history as a means of engaging students and developing their skills, and for the pedagogical use of previously uncatalogued school archives....
    Studying our own school’s archives to promote historical understanding in Year 7

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 192: Balancing micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Lien de Jong celebrates her 90th birthday in September 2023. In lots of ways, her biography is similar to many Europeans of her generation. She was born, grew up and went to school in The Hague during the 1930s. She trained to work in a nursery. In the 1950s, she...
    Triumphs Show 192: Balancing micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust

  • 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

  • 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