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  • Having 'Great Expectations' of Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What scope does studying a classic novel in both English and history provide for meaningful cross-curricular work and how might engaging with historical fiction help pupils engage more effectively with the realities of the past?...
    Having 'Great Expectations' of Year 9

  • The International Journal Volume 12, Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial New Zealand - Developing an Historical Empathy Pathway with New Zealand Secondary School Students - Martyn Davidson, University of Auckland Cyprus - Deanna Troi and the Tardis: Does Historical Empathy have a Place in Education? Lukas N. Perikleous, University of Cyprus Brazil - An Investigation of the Ways in which...
    The International Journal Volume 12, Number 2

  • The Establishment of English Protestantism 1558-1608

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Reformation which Queen Elizabeth and her ministers created was a series of acts of state, but if we consider it only at the level of official hopes and pronouncements, we will paint a picture of hopeless unreality. For the Reformation to success, the government needed to follow up its...
    The Establishment of English Protestantism 1558-1608

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

  • Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom

      Webinar
    In the last 12 months students have all missed significant chunks of school and importantly a significant chunk of history lessons. In this special one-off webinar, some members of the HA secondary committee discuss the main issues we face as history teachers and offer some potential solutions. What does catch...
    Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom

  • Seeing the historical world

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Lindsay Cassedy, Catherine Flaherty and Michael Fordham draw upon their empirical research to assess what understandings their students had of historical interpretations at the end of their compulsory education in history. They found that most students operated with an underlying epistemological model that did not reflect the...
    Seeing the historical world

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Old Wine, New Bottles : National Identity, Citizenship and the History Curriculum for the 21st Century   Articles Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: Re-Shaping Our Pasts. The Influence of Primary School Teachers' Knowledge and Understanding of History on Curriculum Planning and Implementation.     Laura Capita,...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1

  • Using sites for insights

      Teaching History article
    Working alongside local history teachers to prepare for the new GCSE specifications Steve Illingworth and Emma Manners were struck that many teachers were concerned about two issues in particular: the breadth and depth of knowledge demanded and new forms of assessment, especially the historic environment paper. In this article they...
    Using sites for insights

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 153: Good Enquiry Questions

      Teaching History feature
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 153: Good Enquiry Questions

  • Thematic or sequential analysis in causal explanations

      Teaching History article
    Struck by what he saw as the complexity, artistry and cognitive achievement of historians' narrative accounts, Robin Kemp decided to explore ways of teaching his pupils to write narrative and to analyse the role of such writing in developing various kinds of historical thinking. Working with Year 8 and Year...
    Thematic or sequential analysis in causal explanations

  • Cunning Plan 165: Helping lower-attaining students

      Teaching History feature
    My GCSE students were about to embark on their controlled assessment, which asked them to weigh up conflicting views on the British military’s contribution to the D-Day landings. Students were asked to engage  with a range of historians’ views and textbooks as well as some contemporary source material to assess...
    Cunning Plan 165: Helping lower-attaining students

  • Tracking the health of history in England’s secondary schools

      Teaching History article
    In 2009 the Historical Association conducted the first of what has become an annual survey of history teachers in England. Its aim was to get beyond bare statistics relating to subject uptake and examination success to examine the reality of history teaching across all kinds of schools and to map...
    Tracking the health of history in England’s secondary schools

  • 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

  • Vive la France! A comparison of French and British history teaching, with practical suggestions from across La Manche

      Teaching History article
    It is possible for teachers to learn a great deal within their own classrooms, departments and schools. However, stepping outside that daily experience, whether by reading a journal, contributing to a web debate or attending a conference, can always provide refreshing ideas. Evelyn Sweerts takes the concept of sharing good...
    Vive la France! A comparison of French and British history teaching, with practical suggestions from across La Manche

  • Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes particular problems can lead to unexpected solutions. In this case, Sally Burnham decided to solve a problem that she had identified among her Year 12 students by changing the way in which she teaches Year 7. Her Year 12s were finding it difficult to set appropriate questions for their...
    Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

  • How can students' use of historical evidence be enhanced?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What role does knowledge play in the interpretation of documentary materials? How do history students use what they know? What kind of knowledge really ‘makes the difference' and which ways of using knowledge make the...
    How can students' use of historical evidence be enhanced?

  • From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

      Teaching History article
    Tim Jenner was working on a causation enquiry with his Year 7 students when he noticed that weak conceptions of change were limiting their ability to produce powerful and period-sensitive arguments. He therefore decided to digress into a temporary but explicit focus on analysing historical change. He created a deceptively...
    From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

  • Pupil Perceptions and History

      E-CPD Resource
    A PowerPoint presentation by Alison Kitson dealing with Pupil Perceptions and History.
    Pupil Perceptions and History

  • Teaching for beginners

      Multipage Article
    This section is divided into three sub-sections: 2.1 What is history in schools?2.2 Historical knowledge2.3 History classroom practice An introduction to the discipline of history in schools is covered in ‘What is history in schools?’ Beginning teachers need to learn and think about the nature and purposes of history in the school classroom...
    Teaching for beginners

  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 3 Number 2 July 2003 ISSN 1472 - 9466 Editorial Keith Crawford - The Role and Purpose of Textbooks   Articles Jason Nicholls  - Methods in School Textbook Research   Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: the Contribution of...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 1

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Teaching, Learning and Research Volume 3 Number 1 January 2003 Editorial British Island Stories: History, Schools and Nationhood - Robert Phillips   Articles School History, National History and the Issue of National Identity - Ann Low-Beer   Nationalism and the Origins of Prejudice - Cedric Cullingford  ...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 1

  • Film: What a strange place to be buried

      Virtual Branch Film
    Anna Cusack joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss unique burial locations in London c.1600-1800. Anna recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the marginal dead of seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, focusing specifically on suicides, executed criminals, Quakers, and Jews and the treatment of their bodily remains...
    Film: What a strange place to be buried

  • What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Robin Conway suspected that his students’ concepts of the significance of different aspects of historical periods was affected by the preconceptions that they brought to his lessons. These preconceptions were leading his students into making unhistorical judgments, without any real understanding on their part of what had affected their thinking....
    What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 2, Number 2 July 2002 Letting the Past Speak Contributor John Fines (1938-1999) An obituary by Jon Nichol 3 Introduction 5 1 History In Schools 1. What is History for in Schools? 6 2. The Respect that is Owed to the...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2

  • Understanding 'change and continuity' through colours and timelines

      Teaching History article
    The small-scale research that Yosanne Vella reports in this article was driven by concern to help pupils develop ‘big picture' visions of the past and to engage effectively with the idea of change as a process rather than an event. The strategy that she adopts - asking groups of students...
    Understanding 'change and continuity' through colours and timelines