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  • The Power of Context: using a visual source

      Teaching History article
    Drawing on her wealth of experience and expertise in using visual sources in the classroom, in this article Jane Card explores how a single painting, a portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, might form the basis for a sequence of lessons. Arguing that although highly...
    The Power of Context: using a visual source

  • Using Lesson Study to make microimprovements in teaching Year 8 how to use sources

      Teaching History article
    A highly distinctive and structured approach to teacher development, Lesson Study emerged in Japan but has since been adopted much more widely and now sees growing interest in the UK. Tony McConnell, Davinia Daley, Rebecca Levy, Lisa Waddell and Richard Waddington describe the process by which their school first investigated...
    Using Lesson Study to make microimprovements in teaching Year 8 how to use sources

  • It’s just reading, right? Exploring how Year 12 students approach sources

      Teaching History article
    Frustrated by the generic statements that her Year 12 students were making about sources, Jacqueline Vyrnwy-Pierce resolved to undertake a research project into how her students were approaching sources about the French Revolution. Fascinated by the research of American educational psychologist Sam Wineburg, Vyrnwy-Pierce decided to use Wineburg’s methods to find...
    It’s just reading, right? Exploring how Year 12 students approach sources

  • Inverting the telescope: investigating sources from a different perspective

      Teaching History article
    As historians, we are dependent on evidence, which comes in many varieties. Rosalind Stirzaker here introduces a project which she ran two years ago to encourage her students to think about artefacts in a different way. They have examined randomly preserved artefacts such as those of Pompeii, and sets of...
    Inverting the telescope: investigating sources from a different perspective

  • An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

      Teaching History article
    It is common practice to invite survivors of the Holocaust to speak about their experiences to pupils in schools and colleges. Systematic reflection on the value of working with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides and on how to make the most of doing so is rarer, however. In...
    An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

  • The dialogic dimensions of knowing and understanding the Norman legacy in Chester

      Teaching History article
    Michael Bird and Thomas Wilson focus their attention directly on the voices of pupils, in dialogue with their teacher and with each other, as they draw inferences from differing sources about the Norman legacy in Chester. By carefully examining dialogue stimulated by these sources, Bird and Wilson demonstrate not only...
    The dialogic dimensions of knowing and understanding the Norman legacy in Chester

  • Enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy

      Teaching History article
    Wrestling with Stephen and Matilda: planning challenging enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy McDougall found learning about Stephen and Matilda fascinating, was sure that her pupils would also and designed an enquiry to engage them in ‘the anarchy' of 1139-1153 AD. Pupils enjoyed exploring ‘the anarchy' and learning...
    Enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy

  • Investigating students' prior understandings of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Students make sense of new learning on the basis of their prior understandings: we cannot move our students' thinking on unless we understand what they already know. In this article, Edwards and O'Dowd report how they set out to scope a group of Y ear 8  students' prior learning and...
    Investigating students' prior understandings of the Holocaust

  • A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs

      Teaching History article
    Holocaust imagery is very familiar, clichéd even. How can we get pupils thinking about it in novel ways and seeing differently? Phillips reports work completed with his PGCE students, proposes a scaffold of questions with which to deconstruct images and applies it to  archive images and to Hollywood representations. Images...
    A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs

  • Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

      Teaching History article
    Pictures abound in history classrooms and teachers use them in many different ways. They add - often literally - some colour to the past, helping us to imagine what different worlds were like. Pictures can be used quite legitimately in this way to fire imagination and stimulate interest. But we...
    Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

  • 'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?

      Teaching History article
    This was an opportunity all good historians dream about. A large box crammed with artefacts about a soldier who fought in the First World War, just begging to be read, studied, sorted and organised. Being faced with such a wealth of uncatalogued primary evidence could have proved daunting enough without...
    'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?

  • Triumphs Show 160: Prezi and propaganda

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Laura Tilley recognised that her Year 9 students were finding it difficult to work out the intended message of visual propaganda. To help her students make better use of the substantive knowledge they already had, she devised an interactive activity using a presentation software, Prezi. This approach provided students with...
    Triumphs Show 160: Prezi and propaganda

  • Polychronicon 128: The Death of Captain Cook

      Teaching History feature
    In popular perception, anthropologists and historians cut very different figures. The anthropologist, a hybrid of Indiana Jones and a Kiplingesque colonial official, wears a bush hat or pith helmet and tirelessly trudges up mountains or hacks through jungle in search of lost tribes and ancient, unchanging, folklore. The historian, a...
    Polychronicon 128: The Death of Captain Cook

  • Why Gerry now likes evidential work

      Teaching History article
    Phil Smith resurrects the lovable Gerry who was first introduced to Teaching History readers by Ben Walsh. Gerry now pops up in another history classroom, and, sadly, has had a few terrible teachers since Ben was looking after him. Phil brings Gerry back to the path of righteousness. Through an...
    Why Gerry now likes evidential work

  • Information and Evidence In a Nutshell

      Article
    Nutshell, what's the National Curriculum Attainment Target on about when it contrasts "information" and "evidence"? Aren't they the same thing? They aren't really things. The contrast is between ways of thinking about knowledge rather than between things. Pardon me? One way of talking about knowledge involves ‘looking things up': we...
    Information and Evidence In a Nutshell

  • Census of Ireland, Dublin 1911 - National Archives of Ireland

      Article
    The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Click here to go to the site: National Archives of Ireland
    Census of Ireland, Dublin 1911 - National Archives of Ireland