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  • Coherence in primary history: How can we get children to see that their history links up?

      Primary History article
    No teacher ever wants to claim that their history curriculum is incoherent. All schools want to have a curriculum that is logically ordered and consistent, that has clarity and that holds together. It is easy to assume that how we see this coherence as adults must also translate to the...
    Coherence in primary history: How can we get children to see that their history links up?

  • M&S brings over 130 years of archives into your classroom

      Article
    There is something really magical about making your own discoveries. Investigating something sparked by your own curiosity and using your own skills of observation and deduction to find out more is exciting. Human beings have always wanted to find out about our history and our place in the world –...
    M&S brings over 130 years of archives into your classroom

  • Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

      Virtual Branch
    In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.  Marcus Collins...
    Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

  • Effective management of history in the revised curriculum

      Article
    This section examines ways in which the subject leader can prove an effective manager and co-ordinator. It looks at issues such as the main activities of a subject leader, effective but manageable assessment and how the quality of history in the primary school can be monitored and evaluated.
    Effective management of history in the revised curriculum

  • Citizenship: The Romans in Britain study unit

      Article
    The english government has identified History in the national curriculum as one of the main vehicles for citizenship education. However, even if various issues in History exemplify citizenship concepts, learning about them during history lessons will not be sufficient to make the learning ‘citizenship education’. We have to move on...
    Citizenship: The Romans in Britain study unit

  • Addressing the issues of knowledge, skills and understanding

      Article
    This section explores some of the key ideas and activities for time, causation, interpretations, enquiry and significance. There are also some ideas on how history can be linked with literacy.
    Addressing the issues of knowledge, skills and understanding

  • Twist in the tales

      Article
    Any academic who is in the business of writing will appreciate the pressure put on them by publishers desirous of a market product. Books for teachers need to be at once scholarly and popular, practicable and theoretical, readable but not reductionist. This puts considerable demand on the writer - I...
    Twist in the tales

  • Podcast Series: From the Stone Age to the Romans

      Multipage Article
    In this podcast Professor Richard Bradley of the University of Reading looks at Britain and Ireland from their prehistoric beginnings to the arrival of the Romans.
    Podcast Series: From the Stone Age to the Romans

  • Book for the Literacy Hour

      Article
    Jo Barkham reviews the book 'A Day in the Life of a Victorian Child', written by Penelope Harnett.
    Book for the Literacy Hour

  • Book for the Literacy Hour

      Article
    Jo Barkham reviews the book 'What Babies Used to Wear', written by Anne Witherington and Bobbie Neate.
    Book for the Literacy Hour

  • History teaching and learning when you can’t have the children in the classroom

      Primary History article
    The past year has been difficult, with children across the country sent home in March 2020. Teachers were in the unenviable position of attempting to provide an education for classes we were unable to have adequate contact with. There were children who had very little or no access to a...
    History teaching and learning when you can’t have the children in the classroom

  • Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Medieval historian Dr Claire Kennan continued our Virtual Branch series with a local history talk on the building of St James's spire, Louth.  In her talk Kennan traces the important role that Louth's major guilds of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Holy Trinity played in the building of the St James’s spire. Throughout the...
    Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

  • Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

      Article
    Historian and author Martyn Whittock recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'. In 1620, 102 ill-prepared asylum seekers landed two months later than planned, in the wrong place on the eastern coast of North America. By the next summer, half of...
    Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

  • Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009

      Primary History article
    Towards a new primary curriculum: Cambridge Primary Review Part 1, Past and Present, Part 2, The Future - An editorial response to the Cambridge Primary Review.  Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Introduction The Cambridge Primary Review, director Robin Alexander, is the...
    Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009

  • Fifty years ago we lost the need to know our twelve times tables

      Primary History article
    In the first year of junior school, I was in Mrs Phillip’s class. She was one of those teachers who you remember, but, sadly not for good reasons. I was very frightened of Mrs Phillips and the worst part of every week was the tables test… forwards, backwards and questions...
    Fifty years ago we lost the need to know our twelve times tables

  • History in the news: George Floyd protest in Bristol – Colston statue toppled

      Primary History feature
    The killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 25 May 2020 sparked off protests against the way in which black people are treated both in America and many countries across the world. Thousands of people attended an anti-racist demonstration in Bristol. A group of the...
    History in the news: George Floyd protest in Bristol – Colston statue toppled

  • Teaching the Romans in Britain: a study focusing on Hadrian’s Wall

      Primary History article
    The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain is a unit of work in the Key Stage 2 history curriculum – and focusing on Hadrian’s Wall is one of the optional aspects suggested for study; although I would argue that the ‘successful invasion and conquest by Claudius’ aspect should be...
    Teaching the Romans in Britain: a study focusing on Hadrian’s Wall

  • Using different sources to bring a topic to life: The Rebecca Riots

      Primary History article
    For primary school pupils a key aim of the National Curriculum for history is to understand the method of historical enquiry. Working with original sources is of course central to the whole process and provides a great way to inspire pupils’ experience of the subject. Young pupils, once they have...
    Using different sources to bring a topic to life: The Rebecca Riots

  • What can you tell about the Vikings from a chess piece?

      Primary History article
    Alf Wilkinson looks at one artefact, and asks what it tells us about the Viking world, and Viking links with other societies and civilisations. In 1831, on a lonely beach on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, someone – we are not quite sure who – made an...
    What can you tell about the Vikings from a chess piece?

  • Using Nursery Rhymes to develop children's knowledge and understanding of the past

      Primary History article
    Nursery rhymes are good sources of evidence about the past and their potential for developing children's understanding has been discussed in earlier editions of Primary History (Woodhouse: 2005, 2001; Cooper: 2005; Primary History : 2000) They may be used as starting points to provide information about past ways of life...
    Using Nursery Rhymes to develop children's knowledge and understanding of the past

  • Archaeology and the Early Years: The Noah's Ark Experience

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. The authors of this article first worked together on a number of small scale excavations while Bev was still a primary school teacher in the Bradford area. When Bev changed roles to train...
    Archaeology and the Early Years: The Noah's Ark Experience

  • The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings: push, pull, cause and consequence

      Primary History article
    The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings shaped British history in ways that are directly relevant to us today and inform our language, laws and culture. Without them we would not have some of our greatest stories, heroes and artefacts. The recent exhibition at the British Library on the Anglo-Saxons is testament...
    The Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings: push, pull, cause and consequence

  • Putting the Story back into History

      Primary History article
    Children love stories. They like the drama, the excitement, the chance to listen and to wonder. Narrative is a very important part of history and sometimes, by concentrating on facts or on skills, we tend to lose the view of the big picture, especially in the Key Stage 2 curriculum...
    Putting the Story back into History

  • Investigating children's awareness of changing values and attitudes through stories written in the past

      Primary History article
    Talking about historical stories written at different times in the past can reveal much about the more sophisticated understandings that young children have of the past. Primary school children often work with artefacts, historic architecture and sites to enable them to visualise and reconstruct the past. However, these sources do...
    Investigating children's awareness of changing values and attitudes through stories written in the past

  • Book for the Literacy Hour

      Article
    Jo Barkham reviews 'Asha in the Attic' written by Gill Howell and illustrated by Alan Marks.
    Book for the Literacy Hour