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  • Podcasted Lecture: Why Medieval History Matters?

      Medieval History
    Why Medieval History Matters, Professor Anne Curry, President of the HA ‘I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the state to pay for them'. So, allegedly, said Charles Clarke when Education Secretary in 2003. In fact, medieval history has never...
    Podcasted Lecture: Why Medieval History Matters?

  • Time for chronology? Ideas for developing chronological understanding

      Teaching History article
    The successful study of history requires many things, but few would contest that an understanding of time is one of them. Quite what we mean by ‘an understanding of time’ needs clarification, however. Chronological understanding is one feature. But it is not simply an ability to place events in order...
    Time for chronology? Ideas for developing chronological understanding

  • Historical Enquiries and Interpretations

      Transition Training Session 1
    This is the first of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transition Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc -...
    Historical Enquiries and Interpretations

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles included in this edition:  Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

  • Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness

      Teaching History article
    How do we relate to the past? Does it tell us who we are? Is it a source of examples to follow and mistakes to avoid? Or can we go beyond that to something genuinely historical? Arthur Chapman and Jane Facey argue that as history teachers we have a responsibility...
    Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness

  • How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Mary Woolley decided to make four revision sheets for her lower-band Year 11 set. Each was to help them view their American West study through a different lens. She was rather uncertain, however (and so were the pupils) about her fourth sheet on places. Her reflections on the revision sheet...
    How did changing conceptions of place lead to conflict in the American West? Reflecting on revision methods for GCSE

  • 50th Anniversary of 'Carve her name with pride'

      Article
    The classic British war film Carve Her Name With Pride was based on the true story of Violette Szabó GC, the 23 year old French speaking single mother who volunteered during WW2 to be an agent for the top secret Special Operations Executive (SOE). Shortly after parachuting into German occupied...
    50th Anniversary of 'Carve her name with pride'

  • 'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?

      Teaching History article
    This was an opportunity all good historians dream about. A large box crammed with artefacts about a soldier who fought in the First World War, just begging to be read, studied, sorted and organised. Being faced with such a wealth of uncatalogued primary evidence could have proved daunting enough without...
    'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?

  • The Tudor Court

      Classic Pamphlet
    In 1976, in one of his challenging Presidential addresses to the Royal Historical Society, Professor Geoffrey Elton drew attention to the importance of the court as a ‘point of contact' between the Tudors and their subjects. It was, he suggested, a central and essential aspect of personal government, but in...
    The Tudor Court

  • Free Film Education Resources

      Article
    The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - free resource to coincide with the upcoming feature film release of John Boyne's critically acclaimed novel THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS, Film Education and Miramax Films have produced a comprehensive online resource for schools. It provides an extensive range of materials, activities and...
    Free Film Education Resources

  • Podcast: End of the World Cults

      Podcast
    In this podcast Professor Penelope Corfield looks at the history of 'End of the World Cults'.  1. Why do people at times become urgently convinced that 'the End of the World is Nigh?' HA Members can listen to the full podcast here Short Reading list for End-of-the-World Cults: Two wide-ranging introductions:...
    Podcast: End of the World Cults

  • A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Ben Walsh describes some of the rationale behind the construction of the new Learning Curve exhibition on the British Empire and, in so doing, makes a strong case for placing empire generally and the British Empire in particular at the heart of historical study for all teenagers. A complex and...
    A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

  • Planning and Teaching the New Key Stage 3 PoS

      Website Link
    These notes, ideas and teaching suggestions have developed from CPD courses run over the last few years and from planning and developing SHP resources for the new KS3 programme. Inevitably, it's a statement of current thinking with ideas constantly developing but I hope it proves useful and practical in helping...
    Planning and Teaching the New Key Stage 3 PoS

  • Historiography - an Introduction Roger Spalding and Christopher Parker

      Book Review
    Historiography - an Introduction Roger Spalding and Christopher Parker Manchester University Press, ISBN 978 0 7190 7285 7 Pub 2007. £9.99 Although aimed at Undergraduates, this book will be immensely useful  to students at AS and A2. It is a readable and stimulating introduction to the topic, clearing away much...
    Historiography - an Introduction Roger Spalding and Christopher Parker

  • Liz Kellaway's Top Tips

      Article
    " If you are close enough to a university library and the university is willing, try to take A level students there for research on their individual assignments and general extended reading. Often sixth formers are allowed to use the university library as a reference library. This is really useful...
    Liz Kellaway's Top Tips

  • 11 Ways to Use Multimedia Videos in History Lessons

      Article
    Dan Moorhouse provides: 11 ways to use multimedia videos in lessons: 1)      To develop an understanding of the ways in which different interpretations of events are formed. For example, pupils may study Cromwell and his times and may then be asked to consider how and for what purpose a particular interpretation...
    11 Ways to Use Multimedia Videos in History Lessons

  • Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

      Teaching History article
    The current specifications for AS/A2 history require students to study change over a period of at least 100 years. Given that the 100 year study represents just one module out of six and also that it may not complement any of the other modules selected and may therefore be wholly...
    Basket weaving in Advanced level history...how to plan and teach the 100 year study

  • International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

      Teaching History article
    There is no reason why pupils of so-called ‘average’ and ‘below-average ability’ cannot both understand and enjoy studying complicated international events. Indeed, in the interests of inclusion and raised standards, it is vital that they do. Our Letters Pages in the last two editions captured something of the history teaching...
    International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

  • Move Me On 97: Having difficulty evaluating own lessons

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On 97 This Issue's problem: Maggi Paton, PGCE student, is having difficulty evaluating her lessons Problem: It is the first term of Maggie's PGCE course and she is a few weeks into her first school placement. Initially, her mentor and other staff were impressed by her: she had...
    Move Me On 97: Having difficulty evaluating own lessons

  • Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

  • From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance

      Teaching History article
    In this detailed account of the first stages of a lesson sequence for Year 9 (13-14 year-olds), Kate Hammond sets out the tensions that must be examined and resolved when planning and teaching this most demanding of topics. How can young teenagers be helped to develop a mature response to...
    From horror to history: teaching pupils to reflect on significance

  • Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah

      Teaching History article
    Nicolas Kinloch’s 1998 review of Michael Burleigh’s Ethics and Extermination in Teaching History, 93, sparked a debate amongst our readers about the teaching of the Holocaust, concerning both rationales and practical approaches. Citing the damage caused to pupils’ understanding by a Spielberg view of history, he emphasised that the rationale...
    Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah

  • Teaching Stalinism: knowledge and pedagogy rebooted

      Joint event from the Historical Association, Northumbria University and the Study Group of the Russian Revolution
    Book your place // This joint event from the Historical Association, Northumbria University and the Study Group on the Russian Revolution is aimed at secondary and sixth-form history teachers, lecturers, and trainee teachers. It will focus on the changes in research and pedagogy on Stalinism. Under Stalin’s leadership from 1929...
    Teaching Stalinism: knowledge and pedagogy rebooted

  • Let's see what's under the blue square...': getting pupils to track their own thinking

      Teaching History article
    Trainee teachers Suzie Bunyan and Anna Marshall explain why they decided to devise an activity in which they made a big fuss of a just one visual source. As beginning teachers they were also focusing on aspects of their own professional learning. They had decided to extend their skills in...
    Let's see what's under the blue square...': getting pupils to track their own thinking