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  • Polychronicon 134: The Great War and Cultural History

      Teaching History feature
    Over the past two decades the historiography of the Great War has witnessed something of a revolution. Although historical revisionism is, of course, nothing out of the ordinary, the speed with which long-held assumptions about the First World War and its impact have been swept away has been quite astonishing....
    Polychronicon 134: The Great War and Cultural History

  • Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 184: struggling to see beyond tightly regimented teaching strategies

  • Cultivating curiosity about complexity

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A great deal has been written recently about the importance of encouraging and enabling all students to read beyond their comfort zones, beyond the textbook and certainly beyond the obvious requirements of an examination specification....
    Cultivating curiosity about complexity

  • Film: Economic and social change – 1714 to 1785

      Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
    The 18th century represents a pivotal moment bridging early modern Britain with the social, economic and technological  transformations of the Industrial Revolution. In Episode 3, Professor Emma Griffin (Queen Mary University of London), explores this period of invention, innovation and entrepreneurialism, how it affected ordinary families, and its role in the...
    Film: Economic and social change – 1714 to 1785

  • It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

      Teaching History article
    Year 7 history teachers frequently bemoan the lack of historical learning in the primary sector. Pupils may be well versed in suffixes and similes, but their study of history can be limited. This group of history teachers decided that things could be different. Not only did they bring enquiry methods...
    It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

  • Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Let’s stop saying sorry for the Empire! Thus Mastin and Wallace introduce one of their lessons on interpretations of the British Empire. They develop Gary Howells’s ideas from the previous edition of Teaching History to demonstrate exactly what we might get our students to do with interpretations of the past....
    Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire

  • Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King

      Article
    On the eve of the 400th anniversary of Philip II’s death James Casey rejects the traditional portrayal of the Spanish ruler as a cruel despot and argues his achievements were more the result of an extraordinary sense of duty fully in tune with the hopes and aspirations of his people....
    Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King

  • Nutshell 121

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' concentrates on primary history.
    Nutshell 121

  • Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

      Teaching History article
    The work of Gary Howells will be familiar to many readers of Teaching History—indeed, his last article is heavily cited elsewhere in this edition. He presents here the case in favour of using sources at AS level (16-17 years old). Clearly, historians need to have some form of acquaintance with...
    Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

  • Film: Brezhnev's legacy

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film Dr Edwin Bacon looks back at Brezhnev’s 18 years and how is has been described as an era of stagnation, producing an appetite for change from younger leaders such as Mikail Gorbachev. Dr Bacon reflects that this was a period of relative peace, stability and predictability which...
    Film: Brezhnev's legacy

  • Film: Khrushchev - Downfall and Legacy

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Alexander Titov (Queen's University of Belfast), discusses how Khruschev went from initially being a highly popular ‘man of the people’, to becoming an authoritarian, who alienated his colleagues through rudeness and constant unexplained policy shifts, and whose predilection for risk taking and gambles brought the world perilously...
    Film: Khrushchev - Downfall and Legacy

  • Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Jamie Byrom’s article ‘Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning’ (TH 99) offered a practical solution both to weak knowledge acquisition in Year 7 and to effective, worthwhile assessment. This enquiry follows the same model. The assumption is that pupils would be carrying out this enquiry at...
    Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

  • Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham continues a theme explored by many other teacher-authors in recent years, how to ensure that progression does not just stop in Year 9, leaving pupils stagnant in key areas of historical learning before getting picked up again in Year 12. He produces a more thorough rationale and commentary...
    Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

  • Teaching the history of women in Europe in the twentieth-century

      Teaching History article
    This article is based on Ruth Tudor’s book. The book is the collaborative result of a series of seminars and discussions which involved educators throughout Europe. Written with 14-19 year olds in mind, the approach explores how it is possible to investigate, to exploit to provide new insights and to...
    Teaching the history of women in Europe in the twentieth-century

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The First King of England

      Article
    Æthelstan was the early medieval king whose territorial conquests and shrewd statesmanship united the peoples, languages, and cultures that would come to be known as the 'Kingdom of the English.' In this panoramic talk, David Woodman draws on his research and recent book to create a portrait of this immensely...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The First King of England

  • 'Which was more important Sir, ordinary people getting electricity or the rise of Hitler?' Using Ethel and Ernest with Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Mike Murray offers further new perspectives on the relationship between overview and depth in pupils’ historical learning. In an account of his teaching with Raymond Briggs’ Ethel and Ernest to a ‘below-average ability’ class in Year 9, he constructs a rationale for using this moving strip cartoon to motivate, intrigue...
    'Which was more important Sir, ordinary people getting electricity or the rise of Hitler?' Using Ethel and Ernest with Year 9

  • Geography in the Holocaust: citizenship denied

      Teaching History article
    In this article David Lambert argues powerfully for teachers of the humanities to place citizenship at the centre of their work. He seeks to demonstrate that the division between subject-boundaries needs to be broken through if students are not to be denied what they are entitled to: an understanding of...
    Geography in the Holocaust: citizenship denied

  • Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

      Teaching History article
    Pictures abound in history classrooms and teachers use them in many different ways. They add - often literally - some colour to the past, helping us to imagine what different worlds were like. Pictures can be used quite legitimately in this way to fire imagination and stimulate interest. But we...
    Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

  • Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it's written on? Answer: When it's accompanied by a Level, grade or mark!

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Simon Butler advances a strong case for ‘comments only’ marking. Good assessment, he argues, is about encouraging students to reflect on their current performance and take responsibility for their own progress. Assigning Levels to pupils’ work is often justified in terms of the generation of targets which...
    Question: When is a comment not worth the paper it's written on? Answer: When it's accompanied by a Level, grade or mark!

  • The Tenth Grade tells Bismarck what to do: using structured role-play to eliminate hindsight in assessing historical motivation

      Teaching History article
    Neomi Shiloah and Edna Shoham show how history teachers in Israel have begun to move away from traditional talk-and-chalk based teaching. They describe a blend of role-play and ICT that not only grabs pupils’ attention and caters for different styles of learning but also helps pupils to appreciate the difficulties...
    The Tenth Grade tells Bismarck what to do: using structured role-play to eliminate hindsight in assessing historical motivation

  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

      Article
    In this first webinar about writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman will talk about how ideas grow from reading and thinking about history. Once you have a good idea, then you need to research it properly, starting with secondary sources for context, then moving on to more specific reading. Visits...
    Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

  • Historical significance - the forgotten 'Key Element'?

      Teaching History article
    How many history departments regularly discuss the quality of their enquiries and teaching processes that relate to historical significance? It would not be unusual, in 2002, for a history department to spend time in a department meeting reflecting upon pupils’ learning about causation or to explore the connection between pupils’...
    Historical significance - the forgotten 'Key Element'?

  • Using the Internet to teach about interpretations in Years 9 and 12

      Teaching History article
    Are you getting fed up of ICT experts and others telling you to watch out for ‘bias’ in websites? Have you sat open-mouthed through a training session or staff meeting where the need to teach pupils to be critical of what they find on the web is sagely discussed, as...
    Using the Internet to teach about interpretations in Years 9 and 12

  • Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era

      Article
    For European states in the early modern era the Ottoman empire represented a huge trading bloc, stretching at its height from Hungary in the west to Iran in the east, from Ukraine in the north to Egypt in the south, and along the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the...
    Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era

  • Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785

      Article
    Ym Mhennod 9, mae Dr Eryn White (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) yn trafod pwy oedd mewn grym yng Nghymru ym 1714, y berthynas newidiol rhwng Cymru a'r Deyrnas Unedig ehangach a'r datblygiadau allweddol a ddigwyddodd yng Nghymru rhwng 1714-1785. Mae Dr White yn myfyrio ar ehangu cyflym print a llythrennedd yng Nghymru...
    Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785