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  • Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Knowledge of the experience of women during Victorian times has developed considerably during the last thirty years. History had a privileged place within the British Women’s Liberation movement in the early 1970s and reclaiming the...
    Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women
  • Ways of making Key Stage 2 history culturally inclusive: A study of practice developed in Kirklees

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Kirklees, West Yorkshire comprises Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Batley. There is a population of 300,000. Minority, ethnic pupils account for nearly 20%. Over the next decade it is predicted that there will be an increase in the number of pupils of Pakistani, Indian,...
    Ways of making Key Stage 2 history culturally inclusive: A study of practice developed in Kirklees
  • ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. John W Robertson explains how computer databases can be used by primary school children to investigate local history.
    ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history
  • Visual image exemplar: Using pictures of Sutton Hoo objects

      Exemplar
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The Sutton Hoo ship burial contained a king's ransom in gold and jewellery. Indeed, it contained the worldly and spiritual goods needed for the king's voyage into the next world. But...
    Visual image exemplar: Using pictures of Sutton Hoo objects
  • Supporting Gifted and Talented

      HA Quick Guides
    It is a long way from a poor background as the son of a Greek-Cypriot postman to that of a life peer and junior minister in the British government. Yet Andrew Adonis is on record as having his youthful imagination fired by primary history, with a love of the subject...
    Supporting Gifted and Talented
  • Culture Shock: The Arrival of the Conquistadores in Aztec Mexico

      Historian article
    When the Spanish Conquistadores arrived in Mexico during the early sixteenth century there were many repercussions for the indigenous people. Their conversion to Christianity and the sacking of their temples are two of the most well known examples.  However, it is often forgotten that the Aztecs had only a pictorial...
    Culture Shock: The Arrival of the Conquistadores in Aztec Mexico
  • Case Study: Prehistory in the primary curriculum: A stonehenge to remember

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. An article in the Sunday Times newspaper on 7 December reported that Britain is to stop making nominations to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) for heritage sites to be granted World Heritage...
    Case Study: Prehistory in the primary curriculum: A stonehenge to remember
  • The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

      Article
    How did King Harold II die at the Battle of Hastings? The question is simple enough and the answer is apparently well known. Harold was killed by an arrow which struck him in the eye. His death is depicted clearly on the Bayeux Tapestry in one of its most famous...
    The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings
  • How should we remember Rosa Parks?

      Primary History Article
    Rosa Parks died in October 2005, aged 92. It's a life story which resonates with any age group. In a recent visit to a nursery, I saw 4 year olds who had lined up the chairs to make a bus, playing out Rosa's refusal to move from her seat. She...
    How should we remember Rosa Parks?
  • World Study lessons

      Lesson Plans
    Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movementAztec ExperienceThe Tomb of TutankhamunPyramid building Background information for teachers: Ancient Egypt Drama exemplar: Akhenaten And here's another useful website we've found for Ancient Egypt (intended for university students but it's got some useful resources): Digital Egypt from UCL
    World Study lessons
  • Ancient Greeks: The Olympics' War Games - Teaching through Drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. When I was a boy the Greek Olympics was one of the perennials of the primary history curriculum, alongside the Battle of Hastings and the execution of Charles I. I have memories of an old text...
    Ancient Greeks: The Olympics' War Games - Teaching through Drama
  • Whatever did the Greeks do for us?

      Primary History article
    The National Curriculum asks us to help our children to study ‘Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world’ [DfE 2013]. Lots of books explore the ancient Greeks [see, for example, Ancient Greece by Alf Wilkinson, Collins Primary Histories, published in 2019]. It is a familiar topic....
    Whatever did the Greeks do for us?
  • Dissolution of the Monasteries: Haughmond Abbey

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The objectives of this lesson were for the children to: Understand that spoken language and word usage may change over a period of time; Understand that to be able to use an historical document as a source of evidence it is...
    Dissolution of the Monasteries: Haughmond Abbey
  • Sutton Hoo - Classroom archaeology in the digital age

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. The class had composed its Anglo-Saxon funeral poem for Raedwald, an Anglo-Saxon king, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A6dwald_of_East_Anglia, the high king or Bretwalda of all seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the early seventh century as well as being King...
    Sutton Hoo - Classroom archaeology in the digital age
  • Significant anniversaries: The Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963

      Primary History article
    It is sixty years since the Bristol Bus Boycott highlighted race inequalities and discrimination in the workplace. In this article, Stuart Boydell revisits this watershed moment and considers how the Bristol Bus Boycott could be incorporated into the curriculum today. Sixty years ago, Bristol was at the centre of a...
    Significant anniversaries: The Bristol Bus Boycott, 1963
  • Victorian child labour: slate mining

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this free resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources see: Victorians (Primary History article, 2014) Scheme of work: Sarah Forbes Bonetta Scheme of work: Brunel Download Resources 1 and 2 as well as the teachers' notes.  Resources 1 gives you the paragraphs for the children to cut...
    Victorian child labour: slate mining
  • Sarah Forbes Bonetta: Scheme of Work

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    Children are introduced to the idea of significance, and how this might change over time. Sarah Forbes Bonetta – we don't even know her real name – was an African princess, a slave in West Africa, a god-daughter of Queen Victoria, a wife, mother and missionary teacher. Does that make her...
    Sarah Forbes Bonetta: Scheme of Work
  • Celtic Britain: the land the Romans conquered

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. Literacy was addressed throughout these lessons: introducing the text and the materials about the island, then working on the production...
    Celtic Britain: the land the Romans conquered
  • Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories

      Primary History feature
    Please note: this piece was written before Sir Mo Farah’s 2022 disclosure that he was trafficked to the UK as a child, so some of its content is no longer accurate. An assembly could focus on the achievements of their lives, experiences as child refugees and migrants, and how they overcame...
    Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
  • Teaching about the translatlantic slave trade and emancipation

      Primary History article
    Introduction – slavery, abolition and emancipation 25 March 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. It is not compulsory to teach about the slave trade. However, the links to the National Curriculum – particularly in history, citizenship and geography – are clear. The...
    Teaching about the translatlantic slave trade and emancipation
  • 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 Tomb of Tutankhamun

      Lesson Plan
    How was Tutankhamun's tomb discovered? Using a photograph as a source of historical information. (These resources are attached below) The lesson aims were for children to: understand the circumstances surrounding the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb develop their skills in scanning, observing and focusing, and questioning use sources to find out...
    The Tomb of Tutankhamun
  • Magellan at KS1

      Lesson Plan
    The Year 2 story of Magellan and his voyage round the world. The lessons provided part of the history and geography element in a wider topic on ‘Water'. (These resources are attached below) The teaching was done through the powerful medium of storytelling. The first session was taken up by...
    Magellan at KS1
  • Primary Scheme of Work: Remembrance

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    In this unit pupils will be introduced to the concept of Remembrance Day and will learn why people in this country wear poppies in November. Through learning about Remembrance, pupils will understand that there are events beyond living memory that are significant nationally and globally, and that these are commemorated...
    Primary Scheme of Work: Remembrance
  • Quality Mark: The Five Phases

      Quality Mark Phases
    There are four phases you need to go through to be accredited with the Historical Association Quality Mark. Find out more via the links below:
    Quality Mark: The Five Phases