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  • Teaching Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings in Britain

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. For...
    Teaching Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings in Britain

  • Changes within Living Memory

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Overview  Post-1930s Britain has been transformed by a technological revolution...
    Changes within Living Memory

  • Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movement

      Lesson Plan
    The Sumerian mystery lesson is based on a story about what people found in one of the royal tombs of Ur dating from about 4000 years ago. (This was in ancient Mesopotamia, near what we now call the Persian Gulf.) (These resources are attached below) The story is full of...
    Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movement

  • Archimedes and the Syracusan War

      Lesson Plan
    Cross-curricular History and Science in the Literacy Hour Archimedes and how his weapons worked Archimedes is an excellent subject. Indeed, Archimedes offers an excellent cross-curricular lesson opportunity, as he covers science, mathematics and a range of other areas, including cunning plans to defeat enemy armies and navies. The previous week...
    Archimedes and the Syracusan War

  • 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

  • Children in Victorian Britain: Down the Mine

      Lesson Plan
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this free resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum....
    Children in Victorian Britain: Down the Mine

  • Urban spaces cross-curricular work: History

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: these free resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. This is part of a set of subject areas also covering Science, Literacy and Art & Design. This section covers Citizenship too - see the 'Upstairs downstairs' material. See Cross-curricular learning Public spaces offer a range of opportunities for children's learning, and can...
    Urban spaces cross-curricular work: History

  • Tudor Tempest

      Lesson Plan
    The pupils attend a large primary school where the classes are vertically grouped. The history focus for the summer term was the Tudors, although SATs three weeks into the term meant that the history emphasis was lost for a couple of weeks. Work on the Tudors began with explorations of...
    Tudor Tempest

  • Discussion and debate exemplar: Columbus: was he a hero?

      Short Lesson Exemplar
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Lynn Cowell's Year 2 class had been doing a topic on a famous person from the past: Christopher Columbus. It began with a story and picture sequencing, followed by some research into the life of Columbus. Lynn had invited Ray Verrier...
    Discussion and debate exemplar: Columbus: was he a hero?

  • Topic book blitz: asking and answering questions and Tudor Britain

      Short Lesson Exemplar
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The topic book blitz approach, where children freely scan a range of topic books, provides both a marvellous stimulus to curiosity and questioning, and an authentic purpose for using research skills. One of our key principles is Questions and Questioning.In this...
    Topic book blitz: asking and answering questions and Tudor Britain

  • Viking traders

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    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. Enactive learning - a Viking trading game to help children understand the full variety of Viking life and culture. They were so...
    Viking traders

  • Vikings: Egils Saga

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    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. Key questions in this lesson were: What did the Vikings value?  What can we discover from sagas and poetry? (These resources...
    Vikings: Egils Saga

  • Using classic fiction to support the study of childhood in Victorian times

      Primary History article
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. Classic fiction provides useful sources of information for investigating the lives, beliefs and values of people in the past. In this article Ann Cowling describes activities undertaken with student teachers which may also serve as models...
    Using classic fiction to support the study of childhood in Victorian times

  • Caesar lands

      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. The class had a clear objective - an understanding of Julius Caesar's landing in Britain, using Caesar's own account in translation...
    Caesar lands

  • 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

  • Local study: Fulwell Windmill

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. The lesson formed part of a local study of Fulwell and Fulwell Windmill in Sunderland. It could also be taught as part of the Victorian Britain Study Unit. The children had already looked at maps and...
    Local study: Fulwell Windmill

  • Detectives: what were schools like in the past?

      Lesson Plan
    In this lesson we asked what clues (objects and pictures) can tell us about the past. How were schools in the past different from ours? (Resources attached below.) The objectives were: To introduce the children to the idea of history as detective work. To help the children to make comparisons...
    Detectives: what were schools like in the past?

  • Remembrance Day at KS1

      Lesson Plan
    Famous event in the past This lesson introduces a famous event in the past through personal family history. (These resources are attached below) The photograph of Angela's grandfather, and the surrounding illustrations, provided a direct route into discussions about remembrance and war, then ranged wider still. The children's literacy was...
    Remembrance Day at KS1

  • Roman market (KS1 or KS2)

      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. Shopping in a Roman townPart of 'The way of life of people who lived in the more distant past in Britain'....
    Roman market (KS1 or KS2)

  • The history teacher's craft: Doing local History through the eyes of W. G. Hoskins

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial comment: When teaching local history we all have an idea of what it is: both as a body of knowledge - information, dates, facts and substantive concepts - and as what that knowledge is based...
    The history teacher's craft: Doing local History through the eyes of W. G. Hoskins

  • Engaging places with KS2

      Article
    Engaging Pupils: An A Level student describes her experience of collaborative working with Key Stage 2.When the students at Thamesview Vocational Centre found out we were working with the local junior school, Riverview Primary, we were quite surprised. We had been working on the Engaging Places project which was a...
    Engaging places with KS2

  • The British Association for Local History (BALH)

      History Network
    The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serves local historians. Its purpose is to encourage and assist the study of local history as an academic discipline and as a rewarding leisure pursuit for both individuals and groups. Local history enriches our lives...
    The British Association for Local History (BALH)

  • Primary History 52: Education and the Environment

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    03 Editorial 04 In my view: Education and the built environment – Dominic Balmforth 06 In my view: Primary history and Engaging Places – Rochelle Whitty 08 In my view: Engaging Pupils: An A Level student describes her experience of collaborative working with Key Stage 2 – Bernice Waghorn 09...
    Primary History 52: Education and the Environment

  • The Government of the Roman Empire

      Classic Pamphlets
    The Government of the Roman Empire, as everyone knows, was autocratic, and, like all autocracies, it was ‘tempered by assassination' or by military revolution. The emperor ruled through an imperial service, at once civil and military, in which several grades, corresponding to the social classes of the empire, were always...
    The Government of the Roman Empire

  • How cruel were the Victorians?

      Year 6 Scheme of Work
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This unit centres on Victorian crime and punishment. This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and...
    How cruel were the Victorians?