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  • Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness

      Teaching History article
    How do we relate to the past? Does it tell us who we are? Is it a source of examples to follow and mistakes to avoid? Or can we go beyond that to something genuinely historical? Arthur Chapman and Jane Facey argue that as history teachers we have a responsibility...
    Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness

  • Empathy without illusions

      Teaching History article
    Empathy may have disappeared from official documents but the history teacher who does not still regularly think about it, plan for it and teach it would be hard to find. What is history if not, in part, an attempt to understand how people thought and felt in the past? This...
    Empathy without illusions

  • Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitude

      Teaching History article
    Helping students to understand how and why people in the present interpret the past differently is a challenge. It is also vital if we are to develop an understanding of why the meanings we ascribe to the past are not fixed, but rather are subject to our own prejudices or...
    Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitude

  • '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

  • Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

      Teaching History article
    The current specifications for AS/A2 history require students to study change over a period of at least 100 years. Given that the 100 year study represents just one module out of six and also that it may not complement any of the other modules selected and may therefore be wholly...
    Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

  • 'I just wish we could go back in the past and find out what really happened': progression in understanding about historical accounts

      Teaching History article
    This is the second in a series of articles for Teaching History in which Peter Lee and Denis Shemilt share the findings of Project Chata (Concepts of History and Teaching Approaches). In their first article (see Edition 113), they questioned the wisdom of using the National Curriculum attainment target as...
    'I just wish we could go back in the past and find out what really happened': progression in understanding about historical accounts

  • Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance

      Article
    In this article Kerry Apps introduces students to the significance of the witch-hunts in the modern era, at the time when they occurred, and in the middle of the eighteenth century. She presents her rationale for choosing the witch-hunts as a focus for the study of significance, and shows how her thinking about her teaching has evolved through her evaluation of her students’...
    Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance

  • Key Concepts at Key Stage 3

      Key Concepts
    Please note: This unit was produced before the 2014 National Curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links. For more recent resources on key concepts, see our What's the Wisdom on series. The key concepts can be divided into three...
    Key Concepts at Key Stage 3

  • Film Series: Active Learning & History

      Multipage Article
    Active learning strategies are engaging but, far more importantly, they make history learning memorable, they encourage resilience and independence, and they are an excellent way to make complex history accessible for all. When used with clear purpose and with knowledge of specific students' needs, they are a tried and tested...
    Film Series: Active Learning & History

  • Inclusive approaches to teaching Elizabeth I at GCSE

      Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at GCSE
    The events of recent years led many to reflect upon the diversity of representation of their history curricula, what they teach and how they teach it. In the autumn of 2020 the Historical Association convened a diversity steering group of key stakeholders in history education. Over the course of the...
    Inclusive approaches to teaching Elizabeth I at GCSE