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  • Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

      Teaching History article
    Jane Card’s previous work on the power of images in conveying particular interpretations and her advice about how to use visual material effectively in classrooms will be familiar to readers of Teaching History. In this article she focuses specifically on the capacity of visual representations to convey a compelling message about the...
    Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

  • Getting Year 7 to vocalise responses to the murder of Thomas Becket

      Teaching History article
    Mary Partridge wanted her pupils not only to become more aware of competing and contrasting voices in the past, but to understand  how historians orchestrate those voices. Using Edward Grim's eye-witness account of Thomas Becket's murder, her Year 7 pupils explored nuances in the word ‘shocking' as a way of...
    Getting Year 7 to vocalise responses to the murder of Thomas Becket

  • Cunning Plan 159: Putting the people into Magna Carta

      Teaching History feature
    Does your heart skip with excitement at the prospect of a Year 7 lesson on Magna Carta? No? Magna Carta may be an important part of the long-term story of royal power and individual liberties but it is not a topic that excites many teachers. If it were, teachers would...
    Cunning Plan 159: Putting the people into Magna Carta

  • The Vikings in Britain

      Historian Article
    Professor Henry Loyn provides an update on recent studies of the Viking Age. Interest in the activities of the Scandinavian people in Britain during the Viking Age, c 800-1100 A.D., has been strong in the last half-century or so, and it is good to pause and assess contributions to the...
    The Vikings in Britain

  • 1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses

      Article
    Ian Arthurson reasseses the Cornish rising of 1497 on its 500th anniversary. On the 400th anniversary of this rebellion there was a good deal of agreement about the Wars of the Roses: ‘The slaughter of people was greater than in any former war on English soil ... The standard of...
    1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses

  • Polychronicon 118: interpretations of Henry VII

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' explores the historical...
    Polychronicon 118: interpretations of Henry VII

  • Cunning Plan 178: How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?

      Teaching History feature
    Cunning Plan for using the metaphor of a tree to help students characterise the process of change and engage with a historian’s argument. In this Cunning Plan, Eve Hackett sets out how she used a recent work of history about the Norman Conquest as inspiration for her teaching of Year...
    Cunning Plan 178: How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?

  • ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge

      Teaching History journal article
    Chloe Bateman recognised the value to her Key Stage 3 pupils of developing rich subject knowledge, but wanted to find a way of encouraging them to value that knowledge for themselves. In this article she explains how she provided that inspiration by setting her Year 7 class the challenge of...
    ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge

  • 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

  • Podcast Series: An Introduction to Magna Carta

      An Introduction to Magna Carta
    What precedents were there to Magna Carta? Why was the charter originally drawn up and signed in 1215? Why was it reissued during the thirteenth century? Would “ordinary” people have been aware of Magna Carta? How effective was Magna Carta as means to controlling medieval kings?  Why was it resurrected...
    Podcast Series: An Introduction to Magna Carta

  • Welsh archers at Agincourt: myth and reality

      Historian article
    Adam Chapman debates the evidence for a Welsh presence among Henry V’s highly-successful force of archers at Agincourt in 1415. Michael Drayton, in his poem of 1627, The Bataille of Agincourt, described the Welsh presence in Henry V's army: ‘who no lesse honour ow'd To their own king, nor yet...
    Welsh archers at Agincourt: myth and reality

  • Exploring and Teaching Medieval History in Schools

      A secondary education publication of the Historical Association
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  Three words sum up the approach of this publication to the...
    Exploring and Teaching Medieval History in Schools

  • Magna Carta Enquiry: free lesson sequence

      Magna Carta Scheme of Work
    The following sequence of lessons is designed to build on pupils' existing knowledge and understanding of the medieval period. In particular it is assumed that pupils will already have an outline knowledge of the main features of medieval kingship and how monarchs exercised their power. In determining the focus for...
    Magna Carta Enquiry: free lesson sequence

  • Broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources

      Teaching History article
    Hiscox wanted to broaden her students’ understanding of the complexity of the British past, and developed an enquiry into the Norman Conquest of Wales to help achieve that aim. Hiscox reports her enquiry design and its outcomes, sharing how she broadened both content and the types of sources that students...
    Broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources

  • Norman Barons

      Classic Pamphlet
    What I have done in preparing this lecture on the Norman Barons is to choose three or four important families, with one or two individuals. I shall try to describe their fortunes briefly to you, pick out what appear to be common characteristics and generalize them - not as conclusions,...
    Norman Barons

  • How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?

      Teaching History article
    Susanna Boyd ‘discovered’ women’s history while studying for her own history degree, and laments women’s continued absence from the school history curriculum. She issues a call-to-arms to make the curriculum more inclusive both by re-evaluating the criteria for curricular selection and by challenging established disciplinary conventions. She also weighs up...
    How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?

  • Cunning Plan 173: using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England

      Teaching History journal feature
    On 29 September 2018 I was fortunate enough to get involved with a collaborative project with Dr Miranda Kaufmann, the Historical Association, Schools History Project, and a brilliant group of people from different backgrounds all committed to teaching about black Tudors. In this short piece, I will share how I...
    Cunning Plan 173: using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England

  • Cunning Plan 163.2: Developing an A-level course in medieval history

      Teaching History feature
    Medieval history has always been a Cinderella era for post-16 students. Some schools offer A-levels in classical civilisation, but most A-level history courses focus on the early-modern and modern periods. A few schools teach an A-level medieval module, with the Crusades being a popular choice. I was therefore excited at...
    Cunning Plan 163.2: Developing an A-level course in medieval history

  • Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    What do 14 Year 7 students, an art teacher, a history teacher and the Victoria and Albert Museum have in common? They are all part of the ‘Stronger Together' Museum Champion project run by The Langley Academy and the River & Rowing Museum and supported by Arts Council England, designed to...
    Triumphs Show 157: What makes art history?

  • Henry V

      Pamphlet
    Christopher Allmand updates his earlier pamphlet on Henry V, taking into account research and ideas explored by historians over the last 50 years, to produce a much more rounded view of Henry V. The book is split into three parts - Henry V in history; Henry as he is viewed...
    Henry V

  • Edward III & David II - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    When Alexander II met his tragic death at Kinghorn in 1286, the event was speedily to put an end to the cordial relations which had prevailed for a hundred years between England and Scotland and to substitute chronic hostility for two and half centuries. Edward I, fresh from the conquest...
    Edward III & David II - Pamphlet

  • Enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy

      Teaching History article
    Wrestling with Stephen and Matilda: planning challenging enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy McDougall found learning about Stephen and Matilda fascinating, was sure that her pupils would also and designed an enquiry to engage them in ‘the anarchy' of 1139-1153 AD. Pupils enjoyed exploring ‘the anarchy' and learning...
    Enquiries to engage Year 7 in medieval anarchy

  • Improving Year 12's extended writing

      Teaching History article
    From Muddleton Manor to Clarity Cathedral: improving Year 12's extended writing through an enhanced sense of the reader Mary Brown recognised that her A-level students were finding extended writing difficult, particularly in terms of guiding the reader through the argument with appropriate ‘signposting'. To help her students manage this, Brown...
    Improving Year 12's extended writing

  • Exploring big overviews through local depth

      Teaching History article
    Exploring big overviews through local depth Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie's search for a more rigorous and interesting way of teaching Year 7 the Norman Conquest was initially driven by a desire to incorporate local history in a more meaningful way in their Key Stage 3 schemes of work. This...
    Exploring big overviews through local depth

  • Enabling Year 7 to write essays on Magna Carta

      Teaching History article
    Setting out to teach Magna Carta to the full attainment range in Year 7, Mark King decided to choose a question that reflected real scholarly debates and also to ensure that pupils held enough knowledge in long-term memory to be able to think about that question meaningfully. As he gradually prepared his pupils to produce their own causation arguments in response to that question, King was startled by...
    Enabling Year 7 to write essays on Magna Carta