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  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and archaeology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Don Henson answers questions about history and archaeology.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and archaeology

  • Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Science Museum in South Kensington, London is accessible through its website as well as through visiting the building itself and this article considers how history teachers can gain from using the collection and resources...
    Identity Crisis: History through Science, strange bedfellows or obvious partners?

  • Teaching history through nursery rhymes in the foundation stage

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content is now outdated. All teachers working within the foundation stage will, at some time, be using nursery rhymes in their classrooms. Their importance to early language development has long been acknowledged, particularly the way in which they contribute to...
    Teaching history through nursery rhymes in the foundation stage

  • 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

  • Case Study 4: Harry met Francis - The field of the cloth of gold, 1521 and inspirational and authentic context for teaching aspects of history, dance, drama, design and technology through french

      Article
    The Field of the Cloth of Gold is traditionally regarded as the province of A-level history study. However, this wonderful story (and the insights it can offer into: the lives of the rich and poor, the nature of the kings of both England and France, the ways in which alliances...
    Case Study 4: Harry met Francis - The field of the cloth of gold, 1521 and inspirational and authentic context for teaching aspects of history, dance, drama, design and technology through french

  • 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

  • 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

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Citizenship and History

      Primary History article
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. Hilary Claire answers questions about Citizenship and History.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Citizenship and History

  • A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is a huge potential for using ICT to enhance children’s historical learning. This article suggests ways in which ICT was employed to record children’s impressions of their visit to an historical building.
    A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

  • 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...?

  • 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

  • The Jill Grey collection and Hitchin British schools

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Jill Grey lived in Hitchin and over a period of 25 years, collected over 35,000 items. A11 of the material relates to the history of education and social history of childhood. I am still in the process of cataloguing the collection and...
    The Jill Grey collection and Hitchin British schools

  • 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

  • History and the Literacy Hour

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Amid fears of history being lost from the Key Stage One curriculum, following suspension of the statutory orders, research which considered the use of historical story as part of the Literacy hour, was carried out by Paula Silvera, a final year BEd...
    History and the Literacy Hour

  • Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion

      Virtual Branch Film
    The Mongol invasions into the Near East had a devastating effect upon many societies, sultanates, empires and kingdoms. For decades, wave after wave of armies swept across the area, defeating every army sent against them and utterly reshaping the area’s complex political ecosystem. Some powers fell in battle; some submitted...
    Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion

  • How can the use of spreadsheets enhance children's learning in history? A case study

      Article
    Ruth Noall describes the use of ICT (mainly spreadsheets) during her final year teaching practice of Key Stage 2.
    How can the use of spreadsheets enhance children's learning in history? A case study

  • Case Study 5: Local History - A pupil-led study with 9-10 year olds

      Article
    The National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth funded me to carry out an Action Research project with a focus upon personalised learning. This NAGTY Developing Expertise Award empowered four Year 5 girls to investigate the history of their local town. The pupils attended a school in a small market...
    Case Study 5: Local History - A pupil-led study with 9-10 year olds

  • Introducing history at Key Stage 1: a view from the classroom

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘What are we doing this for?’ I was asked this question as we entered the churchyard to look at the local War memorial. The curiosity and directness of a six year old child is guaranteed...
    Introducing history at Key Stage 1: a view from the classroom

  • Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’

      Teaching History article
    Concerned by the growing tendency of politicians and press to revive the moral balance-sheet approach to British imperial history and by some evidence of its resurgence in schools, Alex Benger set about devising a framework which would keep pupils’ analysis rigorously historical, rather than moral and politicised. In this article,...
    Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’

  • Storytelling: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Athenian democracy

      Lesson Plan
    Nigel Parker's Year 5 class had just made a start on the Ancient Greeks. In this lesson we began with Athenian democracy, where the free adult male citizens decided everything, even ostracizing generals they didn't like.The story of SocratesI told the children some of the story of Socrates, who taught...
    Storytelling: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Athenian democracy

  • 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

  • Podcast Series: Confronting Controversial History

      Podcast Series
    Controversial History formed the focus of the Historical Association’s report, Teaching Emotive and Controversial History 3-19 (TEACH). Published in 2007, it offered teachers invaluable guidance for teaching historical topics that can stir emotion and controversy. However, the authors noted how the nature of the sensitivity can be affected by ‘time, geography and...
    Podcast Series: Confronting Controversial History

  • 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

  • Theseus and the Minotaur

      Lesson Plan
    The year 5/6 lessons were planned around interpretations of history, incorporating myths and legends for a cross-curricular approach. The story of Theseus and the Minotaur formed an excellent starting point for an investigation of the Knossos palace, with a focus on the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans' interpretation of the palace...
    Theseus and the Minotaur