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  • Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movement

      Lesson Plan
    The Sumerian mystery lesson is based on a story about what people found in one of the royal tombs of Ur dating from about 4000 years ago. (This was in ancient Mesopotamia, near what we now call the Persian Gulf.) (These resources are attached below) The story is full of...
    Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movement
  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a brand-new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)
  • The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

      Primary History article
    We all know that site visits are good for children - not least because they give a break from the normal school routine - and there are a plethora of heritage sites both local and national that are able to offer facilities for school visits. But we also know that...
    The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage
  • History and the National Primary Strategy

      Primary History article
    The Historical Association poses a series of questions to the Director of the Primary National Strategy, Kevan Collins.
    History and the National Primary Strategy
  • The Standing Stone

      Article
    ‘The Standing Stone’ story and the activities around it developed from several different starting-points. One was the requirement in the 2014 National Curriculum for history at Key Stage 2 for children to be taught prehistory, specifically about ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’, with Bronze...
    The Standing Stone
  • Teaching Robin Hood at Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    The stories of Robin Hood, which date from the Middle Ages, are integral to an understanding of British history. Although historians have not been able to identify a single historical figure that can be called Robin Hood, rooted in evidence, the myth or legend of Robin Hood has had a...
    Teaching Robin Hood at Key Stage 1
  • Significant anniversaries: the infamous Beeching Report 1963

      Primary History article
    March 2023 sees the anniversary of a report that had profound significance on social history and which affected many parts of the United Kingdom. There is every chance that it had an effect close to your school especially if you are in a more rural or coastal area. The Beeching...
    Significant anniversaries: the infamous Beeching Report 1963
  • Using 'Development Matters' in the Foundation stage

      Primary History article
    Using ‘Development Matters' to plan learning for history in the Foundation stage You won't find the term history in the Early Years curriculum framework at all. That being so, it can be difficult to know how best to support our Nursery and Reception colleagues when developing historical understanding within the...
    Using 'Development Matters' in the Foundation stage
  • Urban spaces cross-curricular work: History

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: these free resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. This is part of a set of subject areas also covering Science, Literacy and Art & Design. This section covers Citizenship too - see the 'Upstairs downstairs' material. See Cross-curricular learning Public spaces offer a range of opportunities for children's learning, and can...
    Urban spaces cross-curricular work: History
  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)
  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)
  • Thinking through history: assessment and learning for the gifted young historian

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Historical enquiry requires reasoning. Even historical imagination depends on being able to evaluate a number of possible responses to an hypothesis and mastery of detail and argument. The high levels of thinking in history of...
    Thinking through history: assessment and learning for the gifted young historian
  • Primary History 11

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Farming in the 30s - Patrick Wood 6 The Living History Experience - Karen Player 8 Do Vikings Eat Chocolate? - Meryl Hargreaves 10 Village History - Kathleen Byrne 12 ''We've Done That Miss" - Four Warwickshire teachers 14 History Comes To Life - Shirley Davies 15 News 16...
    Primary History 11
  • Local railway history: using visual resources

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Before the 1960s British Rail's spider-web network of railway lines reached every town and thousands of villages. Where you live would have been within a thirty minute journey from a station; scroll down to look at...
    Local railway history: using visual resources
  • Roman Britain

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet provides an introduction to Roman Britain, examines the political history, the institutions of Roman Britain, the economic background and the end of Roman Britain. IntroductionThe Roman conquest and occupation of Britain has long been taken as the conventional starting point of English History, and there is a conventional...
    Roman Britain
  • Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges and Opportunities

      Primary History article
    “It’s like they’ve gone up a year!” This was the unprompted observation of a teaching assistant at Buckden Primary School last summer, supporting Giles Fullard, a secondary history teacher from Hinchingbrooke School, near Huntingdon leading a lesson with a year 6 class on “Was Boudicca Britain’s first hero?” The scheme...
    Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges and Opportunities
  • The National Curriculum for History from September 2014: the view from Ofsted

      Article
    IntroductionWith the publication on 11 September 2013 of the final version of the revised National Curriculum for September 2014, subject leaders and classroom teachers could start to consider the implications of the proposed changes. For history at Key Stages 1 and 2, some parts of the programmes of study are...
    The National Curriculum for History from September 2014: the view from Ofsted
  • Our Iron Age challenge

      Developing historical understanding through building an iron age house
    The University of Chichester’s three-year BA (Hons) Degree for Primary Education and Teaching involves learning how to provide rigorous and creative educational opportunities for children. The course involves one creativity module each year. The final one involves the development of skills and confidence in creating problem-solving. Four of us were...
    Our Iron Age challenge
  • Constructivist chronology and Horrible Histories

      Primary History feature
    Hilary Cooper illuminates how Horrible Histories can be effectively used to develop an understanding of chronology. She researched two topics: children and law and order. You can download her full paper: it is included in Primary History 59 on Teaching Chronology.
    Constructivist chronology and Horrible Histories
  • Local history for children: through the eyes of a B.ED. student

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. My favourite subject in primary school was always history. I loved everything about history, but in particular I liked learning about the history of the local area. I went to school in a small Yorkshire town...
    Local history for children: through the eyes of a B.ED. student
  • A history of the world - 100 objects that tell a story

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial comment: A History of the World is the most creative, imaginative and dynamic development in primary History Education for thirty years. It ties in perfectly with and supports the government's re-vitalisation of primary education that...
    A history of the world - 100 objects that tell a story
  • The digital revolution

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Developments in information technology continue at an extraordinary pace. Many young children will have little or no idea of what it was like to live in a world without mobile phones, computers and the Internet. Most children will regularly make use...
    The digital revolution
  • Primary History 10

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Viewpoints - Penelope Harnett 5 Letters 6 Setting Activities at Historic Houses - Gail Durbin 9 Here Be Lions - Editorial Article 11 History at Key Stage 2: Looking to the Long Term - Keith Dickson 12 Planning for the New Orders History Key Stages 1 and 2 - David...
    Primary History 10
  • 'Doing Local History' through maps and drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: John Fines produced two case studies of Local History for the Nuffield Primary History Project. One on them is published here for the first time.
    'Doing Local History' through maps and drama
  • Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘Some primary schools are like the High Street in many of our towns. I can predict what I will see before I go through the door. What I want to see is something that gives me...
    Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?