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  • 'I've been in the Reichstag': Rethinking roleplay

      Teaching History article
    Ian Luff constructs a rationale for the use of drama, practical demonstration and roleplay in pupils' learning. He follows this with a wealth of practical examples and detailed advice based on his own professional experience and his experience in running training sessions for other teachers. His analysis of the value...
    'I've been in the Reichstag': Rethinking roleplay

  • GCSE Podcasts: The Road to World War II

      The Road to WW2
    Aaron Wilkes and Katrina Shearman of Castle High School in Dudley discuss one of the key topics for modern world history students: The Road to World War II.
    GCSE Podcasts: The Road to World War II

  • Triumphs Show 121: 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

      Teaching History feature
    It’s early July 2004, and the history department of Harrogate Grammar School are chatting in the staff room enjoying a bit of spare time now that exam classes have disappeared. The subject of what the department will do next year when it comes to trips, speakers and special days comes...
    Triumphs Show 121: 60th Anniversary commemoration of the end of WWII

  • Move Me On 174: Not doing all the thinking for the students

      The problem page for history mentors
    This issue’s problem: Alex Spotswood finds that the activities that he devises tend to involve him, rather than his students, doing all the real thinking and processing of information. Alex Spotswood is well established in his main placement and has taken responsibility for regular GCSE and Key Stage 3 teaching. He is highly...
    Move Me On 174: Not doing all the thinking for the students

  • Cunning Plan 93: Study Unit 3: 'The Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750'

      Article
    This unit contains complex concepts. It is distant from twentieth century life. The challenge is to understand power struggles between King and Parliament, a changing society and a religious upheaval. How do we interest students in religion when they live in a society in which religion takes a back seat?
    Cunning Plan 93: Study Unit 3: 'The Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750'

  • Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor

      Article
    Ben Walsh argues that many teachers of history completely miss the point of the word processor. Criticising those who use it merely for 'typing up' he reminds us that the purpose of the word processor, as with any other resource, is to teach good history. He analyses the types of...
    Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 173: including BME history in the curriculum

      The quick guide to the ‘no-quick-fix’
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll find something better: conversations in which history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations which any history teacher...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 173: including BME history in the curriculum

  • ‘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

  • Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Gary Howells asks hard questions about typical teaching and assessment of historical causation at Key Stage 3. Popular activities that may be helpful in addressing particular learning areas, or in teaching pupils to use the...
    Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

  • Teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in the Spanish Civil War

      Teaching History article
    Teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in the Spanish Civil War

  • Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

      Teaching History journal article
    Puzzled by the shrugs and unimaginative responses of his students when asked certain counterfactual questions, James Edward Carroll set out to explore what types of counterfactual questions would elicit sophisticated causal explanations. During his pursuit of the ‘gold standard’ of counterfactual reasoning, Carroll drew upon theories of academic history in...
    Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

  • Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

      HA on-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers
    The last few years have, rightly, seen a lot of discussion about 'what' we include in the history curriculum. This has meant that many schools now teach a wider-ranging and more inclusive form of history. As this work has an impact, it is important to continue to think about how...
    Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

  • Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony

      Journal article
    Alex Ford and Richard Kennett both welcome the renewed emphasis on knowledge within recent curriculum reforms in England, but are concerned about some of the ways in which the principle of a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum has been interpreted and transformed into particular pedagogical prescriptions. In this article they explain their reasons...
    Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony

  • Polychronicon 133: The Crusader States in the Levant

      Teaching History feature
    In my first Polychronicon article on ‘The Crusades' I pointed out that research historians are increasingly specialising either on the crusades themselves or on the crusader states. There are good reasons for this, but in my opinion it makes little sense for school or university teachers to treat these topics...
    Polychronicon 133: The Crusader States in the Levant

  • British Defence and Appeasement Between the Wars 1919-1939

      Classic Pamphlet
    Armed forces never exist in isolation, but always operate against a background of political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and ideological conditions and attitudes, as well as in relation to diplomatic and strategic factors. Some governments regards their military forces especially their armies, more as instruments for maintaining internal order than...
    British Defence and Appeasement Between the Wars 1919-1939

  • Reflections on the Empathy Debate

      Article
    Not only do the various discussions on empathy show no signs of abating, they remain as confusing and emotionally charged as ever. On the one hand, much of the empathy argument is concerned with...
    Reflections on the Empathy Debate

  • Interpretations of History: Issues for Teachers in the Development of Pupils' Understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. This article is based on collaborative work between staff at a University department of educational studies and a comprehensive school. Ian Davies and Rob Williams reviews the status and meaning of interpretations in history education...
    Interpretations of History: Issues for Teachers in the Development of Pupils' Understanding

  • Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945: KS3 resource packs

      Free schools resource packs for Key Stage 3
    Although secondary education become an almost universal experience for British 11-year-olds after the Second World War, it is striking how rarely this key social transformation is used to engage current school-age pupils studying post-1945 British history. // Can't see the video? Download it here The lessons on these pages are...
    Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945: KS3 resource packs

  • Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry

      Journal article
    Inspired by the claim that local history can be taught effectively ‘Any time, any place, anywhere’, Katharine Burn and Jason Todd took up the challenge of planning Key Stage 3 enquiries related to an unusual and diverse, but frequently neglected and often despised, corner of Oxford. They sought not merely...
    Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry

  • Triumphs Show 169: Using 360 VR Technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    One of the biggest changes in the new GCSE specifications is the requirement for all students to undertake a study of the historic environment. Unsurprisingly the approach taken by the exam boards to this requirement varies widely. While some boards allow schools a free choice of site, others have decided...
    Triumphs Show 169: Using 360 VR Technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study

  • Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7

      Journal article
    Matt Jones wanted to harness the power of local history to help his students understand the profound social changes experienced across Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. While he hoped that the personal stories of six families in Birkenhead would help to humanise abstract concepts such as...
    Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7

  • Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching

      Journal article
    Many previous contributors to Teaching History have demonstrated the power of site visits to stimulate young people’s engagement and enrich their understanding of history. It is usually assumed, however, that the young people themselves will have the opportunity to visit the site in question – an assumption that cannot always...
    Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching

  • Religion and Science in the Eighteenth Century

      Historian article
    Much has been said about the clash between religion and science in Victorian times but there has been less research into the relationship between them in the eighteenth century. This article considers three Georgian clergymen who were also notable scientists – the Reverend William Stukeley, the pioneer of scientific field...
    Religion and Science in the Eighteenth Century

  • Move Me On 166: getting the right pitch for GCSE teaching

      Teaching History feature
    This feature is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. This issue’s problem: Bob Williams is struggling to get the pitch right in teaching topics at GCSE that the school previously taught to Year 7. Bob Williams, now half way through his training year, is feeling very out...
    Move Me On 166: getting the right pitch for GCSE teaching

  • Cunning Plan 92: The Weimar Republic

      Article
    Teaching the Weimar Republic is rather like teaching the voyage of the Titanic. However much you stress the strengths of the Weimar vessel, they just can't wait to see it sink into the Nazi sea. I have found this problem to be so bad that many of them perceive the...
    Cunning Plan 92: The Weimar Republic