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  • The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The arrival of sources of evidence into secondary school history classrooms amounted to a small revolution. What began as a radical development is now establishment orthodoxy, with both GCSE and now National Curriculum in England...
    The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective
  • Historical scholarship and feedback

      Teaching History article
    In her introduction to this piece, Carolyn Massey describes history teachers as professionals who pride themselves on ‘a sophisticated understanding of change and continuity’. How often, though, do we bemoan change when it comes, as it so often has recently? Massey’s article provides an example of how to embrace change,...
    Historical scholarship and feedback
  • Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills

      Teaching History article
    Lucy Moonen set out to explore whether collaborative writing in small groups, facilitated by the use of Google Docs, would help to sustain students’ focus on essay writing as the development of an historical argument. She explains how she set up an essay on the League of Nationals as a...
    Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills