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  • Using historical fiction in the classroom

      Article
    If it is a story then what has that got to do with my teaching history? Well to begin with the best historical fiction is well researched. Good writers like Jill Paton Walsh take their research very seriously. She has commented that, "the writer may invent characters, conversations, circumstances, but...
    Using historical fiction in the classroom

  • Primary history and the curriculum: a South African perspective

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. The issues surrounding the construction of a post-conflict history curriculum are complex. At its most basic level, the memory choice for a country emerging from mass violence is between remembering and forgetting, with...
    Primary history and the curriculum: a South African perspective

  • Helping students make sense of historical time

      Primary History article
    This article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Once upon a time, educators believed that there was a property of children’s minds known as ‘understanding of time’. According to this belief, young children had little ability to understand when things happened, even within their own...
    Helping students make sense of historical time

  • Is There a Place for The Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?

      Article
    The Holocaust – the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War – is possibly the most difficult event that any history teacher will ever have to teach. Most obviously, it can be deeply upsetting, for educators...
    Is There a Place for The Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?

  • Curriculum planning: How to write a new scheme of work for history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article was originally written in early 2014 for schools needing to prepare schemes of work for the new National Curriculum coming into effect that September.   The implementation from September 2014 of the new national curriculum programme of study for history gives you a time-scale for reviewing, refreshing and resourcing your new scheme...
    Curriculum planning: How to write a new scheme of work for history

  • History and the early years: A view from the classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History gives colour and vitality to the curriculum. There are just so many engaging things to do. Without history there wouldn't be so much fun; whether in handling objects such as: the old wooden toys,...
    History and the early years: A view from the classroom

  • ‘It’s a great big ship!’: Teaching the Titanic at Key Stage 1

      Article
    Edith Haisman, a 15-year-old passenger on the Titanic, exclaimed, ‘It’s a great big ship!’ when she first caught sight of it. Similar excitement could be generated among your pupils by incorporating a study of the Titanic into your curriculum. If you are tired of teaching about the Great Fire of...
    ‘It’s a great big ship!’: Teaching the Titanic at Key Stage 1

  • 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

  • Ideas for Assemblies: Empowering pupils to understand the First World War

      Article
    Remembering the Battle of the Somme and other events within the First World War will be popular features of primary assemblies as part of the centenary commemorations. Yet primary teachers are often concerned about how to explore a topic as challenging as the First World War with such a young...
    Ideas for Assemblies: Empowering pupils to understand the First World War

  • Case Study: Creative exploration of local, national and global links 1650

      Primary History article
    Introduction: Linking two schools Rather than looking to create connections with schools in distant places, two teachers from two schools located in different parts of the city of Bristol established a successful link which enabled children to appreciate the personal and local histories on each other's doorsteps. 7/8 year old [year...
    Case Study: Creative exploration of local, national and global links 1650

  • The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. This article reports some surprising gender-based trends indicated by a small scale piece of classroom research looking into incidental responses of Year 6 pupils to the teaching of Study Unit 11b (Britain Since...
    The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany

  • History in the Foundation Stage

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. In September 2000, the introduction of a foundation stage for children aged three to the end of the reception year was widely welcomed for the way in which it confirmed a distinct identity for the early years in education. The recent guidance...
    History in the Foundation Stage

  • 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

  • What are the reasons for linking art and history?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Visual images, paintings, sculpture, photographs, cartoons from past times are important historical sources. Accordingly, Simon Schama embeds visual images and imagery in his historical oeuvre, not primarily as illustration but as a crucial...
    What are the reasons for linking art and history?

  • Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. For more current and recent articles see Using stories to support history in the EYFS and Time for a story. In this article we argue that children in the Foundation Stage should be introduced to history as historical...
    Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

  • Teaching history through photographs in the internet and digital age

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Images allow us to step back in time and ask important historical questions such as ‘Were the Victorians just like us?' Growing digitisation and the spread of the internet allow teachers and learners...
    Teaching history through photographs in the internet and digital age

  • Using the back cover image: Sandbach Crosses - an Anglo-Saxon market cross

      Primary History feature
    This image is a reconstruction, or interpretation, by Peter Dunn, an artist, of what Sandbach Crosses might have looked like in the ninth century. They are one of the few remaining Anglo-Saxon stone crosses in the country. They stand in the market place in Sandbach, Cheshire. You can find a...
    Using the back cover image: Sandbach Crosses - an Anglo-Saxon market cross

  • 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

  • Using a Local Museum, Fulham Palace, the Hidden Jewel of West London

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘The 2,500 museums in the United Kingdom are a resource for public learning of exceptional educational, social, economic and spiritual value - a common wealth. This wealth is held in trust by museums for the...
    Using a Local Museum, Fulham Palace, the Hidden Jewel of West London

  • In the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Beamish - a unique educational experience

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What kind of experience will be remembered by the children in your class in 20 or 30 years’ time? A trip to Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum, would be a likely candidate....
    In the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Beamish - a unique educational experience

  • The co-ordinator's role and the 2014 national curriculum for history

      Primary History article
    Co-ordinator's dilemma: I have seen the new requirements and know that I have a bit of time before things start, but I don't want to leave everything to the last minute. Without feeling that I have to get everything done now, are there some things I can be getting on...
    The co-ordinator's role and the 2014 national curriculum for history

  • Inclusion, diversity and the national curriculum: Are things better than they were?

      Article
    Introduction - the role of history It is an interesting question as to whether history teaching has developed a greater understanding of inclusion and diversity since the start of the National Curriculum. The first version of the National Curriculum required teachers to consider a balance of political, economic, social and...
    Inclusion, diversity and the national curriculum: Are things better than they were?

  • From Champion to Hero: Engaging Pupils in a study of significant Olympians

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Allocated the task of researching and presenting ideas for teaching about significant Olympians, I thought: ‘Brilliant, this is the easy one'. How wrong can one be! I expected to be able to access a plethora of...
    From Champion to Hero: Engaging Pupils in a study of significant Olympians

  • Political literacy: citizenship through the English national curriculum's the Romans in Britain study unit

      Primary History article
    Hilary Claire raised fundamental issues about the relationship between History and Citizenship for the development of a sense of identity. Her paper stresses the importance of sceptical thinking, perspective, sequence and progression - the essential chronology that underpins pupil's education for citizenship in the timeframe that history provides...
    Political literacy: citizenship through the English national curriculum's the Romans in Britain study unit

  • Primary History 45: History in the Foundation and Early Years

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial 05 2006-2007 Historical Association History and ICT project — Alf Wilkinson 08 Citizenship: Citizenship through the English National Curriculum’s The Romans In Britain Study Unit — Hilary Claire 10 In my view: consigning history to the history books — Denis Hayes 11 Introducing history into the KS1 curriculum...
    Primary History 45: History in the Foundation and Early Years