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  • 20 Years On, The 1986 Domesday Project

      Primary History article
    The mention of 'The Domesday Project' to any teacher who was in the classroom in 1985 usually triggers a very vivid memory of involvement in a national survey to capture life at that time. Teachers of over one million pupils in both primary and secondary schools volunteered to be included...
    20 Years On, The 1986 Domesday Project

  • Using children's literature to look at bias and stereotyping

      Primary History article
    We have come to understand that modern children's literature often provides a way of examining a range of social and moral issues, affording educators the opportunity to discuss issues such as bias and stereotyping. Many adults have seen the possibilities here to contextualise classroom incidents differently, or to explore themes...
    Using children's literature to look at bias and stereotyping

  • Making the Modern World: The shock of the real at the science museum

      Primary History article
    Making the Modern World is a vast, exuberant exposition of the real deal. From Arkwright's textile machines that kick-started the industrial revolution to the first Apple computer; from a pair of patented genetically-modified mice to the Apollo 10 command module that orbited the Moon - ons of the industrialised world...
    Making the Modern World: The shock of the real at the science museum

  • 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    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated.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

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Using photographs as sources of evidence

      Primary History article
    Alan Hodkinson answers questions about using photographs as sources of evidence.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Using photographs as sources of evidence

  • A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. There are many effective ways of using artefacts and resources for the Victorians, but how many teachers have considered using the rubbish that the Victorians literally threw away? This material can cost nothing or be...
    A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

  • Grace O' Malley, alias Granuaile, pirate & politician, c. 1530-1603

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Northamptonshire Inspection & Advisory Service (NIAS) can confirm Paul Bracey’s view of the way Ireland’s rich stories help to provide a ‘sounder map of the past’ and increase ‘choice, range and fun in our...
    Grace O' Malley, alias Granuaile, pirate & politician, c. 1530-1603

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about... Accessing Archive Sources

      Primary History article
    Mary Mills answers questions about accessing archive sources. Please note: this article dates from 2003 and some of the sources and services referenced may no longer be available.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... Accessing Archive Sources

  • Raising the achievement of higher-attaining pupils: some challenging activities on Ancient Greece

      Primary History Article
    Karin Doull offers advice on raising the achievements of higher attaining pupils. Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and reference the old QCA, but offers some useful activities on Ancient Greece. 
    Raising the achievement of higher-attaining pupils: some challenging activities on Ancient Greece

  • Book for the Literacy Hour

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

  • Records for a study of the life of Agricultural Labourers in Somerset in the mid 19th century

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This article focuses on extracts from the mid nineteenth and provides information on the wages and living standards of agricultural labourers. In the article Sue Berry suggests numerous ways in which these extracts can be used in lessons at Key Stage 1...
    Records for a study of the life of Agricultural Labourers in Somerset in the mid 19th century

  • Queen Victoria's visit to Wolverhampton, November 30 1866

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. When Prince Albert died in 1861 Queen Victoria went into deep mourning and ceased all public duties. By 1866 she had still not made any public appearances. Wolverhampton, like many other towns, raised a subscription to commission a statue in Albert’s memory....
    Queen Victoria's visit to Wolverhampton, November 30 1866

  • Can you bring the dead back to life...?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Victoria Rogers highlights the importance of encouraging school visits to heritage sites and museums.
    Can you bring the dead back to life...?

  • The Plague in Cumberland 1597-1598. Some documents used in the Cumbria Record Office (Carlisle) by Key Stage 2 pupils studying the Tudors

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Outbreaks of the plague were common in the 16th century and the north of England was badly affected in the 1590s. It is believed that the plague arrived in Cumberland from Newcastle about Michaelmas 1597 and continued for over a year. The...
    The Plague in Cumberland 1597-1598. Some documents used in the Cumbria Record Office (Carlisle) by Key Stage 2 pupils studying the Tudors

  • The coming of the railways - Fire-breathing monster or benefit to mankind?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Today children regard trains as just another not very exciting means of travel, but to many early Victorian people the thought of riding on a train was as alarming and exciting as the idea of space travel is today. To be whisked...
    The coming of the railways - Fire-breathing monster or benefit to mankind?

  • Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Logbooks can be described as the diary of the headmaster. The contents can vary in interest depending on how diligent the headmaster was at recording events. Some merely record the delivery of coals, the attendance at the school or the visitors to...
    Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

  • Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

      Teaching History article
    In this article Nicolas Kinloch examines aspects of an indigenous empire: that of Aztec Mexico. He attempts to persuade a group of mixed-ability Year 8 students to examine - and question - some of the assumptions they bring to the study of this empire. Their attitudes reflect quite widespread beliefs...
    Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

  • Scheme of Work: How did the civilisation of Egypt wax and wane?

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    This teaching toolkit takes a fresh new look at this much-taught topic and provides the basis for a rigorous enquiry led approach for children in key stage 2. Packed full of ideas and links to resources, this toolkit provides a step by step guide to teaching the Egyptians from why...
    Scheme of Work: How did the civilisation of Egypt wax and wane?

  • Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

      Reference
    The wider world: The Tudors ruled Britain during a fascinating and fast-changing century. Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, and Europeans sailed across the oceans, reaching the East, discovering the New World of America, establishing colonies, and circumnavigating the world for the first time (Ferdinand Magellan in 1517, and Francis...
    Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

  • Previous Young Quills winners

      Information
    Each year the Historical Association runs the Young Quills, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults. The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition. Divided by age suitability, the books are given...
    Previous Young Quills winners

  • Objects and visual image exemplar: toys and games

      Exemplar
    This was a half-term cross-curricular topic with a mixed Year 1/2 class. It focused on forces in science, storytelling in English, and objects and pictures in history. The children in the class had a wide range of abilities, with a large number having very poor expressive language. Therefore many of...
    Objects and visual image exemplar: toys and games

  • Reading documents and simulation exemplar: Victorian trade directories

      Exemplar
    The Year 5 class was soon to visit a local museum where a Victorian parade of shops is recreated. We decided to use the 1857 trade directory for our town, Crediton in Devon, to bring its main shopping street to life before the visit. Trade directories, together with census returns...
    Reading documents and simulation exemplar: Victorian trade directories

  • Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

      Exemplar
    Almost more than any other source a photograph provides an incentive to dig, to burrow, to stretch, to tease out, to investigate and follow up leads. A good starter activity. We used a photo in this way to begin our Britain since 1930 unit with a mixed Year 5/6 class....
    Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

  • Story-telling and simulation exemplar: The Great Exeter Fish War of 1309

      Exemplar
    The lesson was taught to 44 Year 3 children in a first school in Exeter. It describes how a story was used to introduce a local history unit, and how we followed it up. To begin, we sat the children on the carpet and told them John Hooker's story about...
    Story-telling and simulation exemplar: The Great Exeter Fish War of 1309

  • T.E.A.C.H Online

      T.E.A.C.H Online - Teaching Emotive and Controversial History
    Please note: this unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, some references and links may be out of date.  T.E.A.C.H. Online is a resource that follows on from the Historical Association's T.E.A.C.H. Report published in 2007 with support from DCSF. It offers further...
    T.E.A.C.H Online