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  • Triumphs Show 150.1: meeting the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit

      Teaching History article
    A collaborative project between Richard Rose Central Academy and University of Cumbria PGCE History trainees to meet the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit. "If I tell you to eat, you will eat! You wanted cake! You stole cake! And now you've got cake! What's more, you're going to eat...
    Triumphs Show 150.1: meeting the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit

  • '...trying to count the stars': using the story of Bergen-Belsen to teach the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Maria Osowiecki's search for the right questions to frame her students' study of the Holocaust was driven initially by the proximity of her school to the site of Bergen-Belsen, and the particular interests and concerns of her students as members of British Forces families. But, as this article richly demonstrates,...
    '...trying to count the stars': using the story of Bergen-Belsen to teach the Holocaust

  • Britain and the Formation of NATO

      Article
    Carl Watts outlines the shift in British security policy and examines the role played by the Foreign Office during the post-War period. April 1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty, which came into effect in August 1949. The Cold War is over, but NATO...
    Britain and the Formation of NATO

  • After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain

      Historian article
    Much has been written during the last 50 years about the events leading up to and during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Less consideration has been given to the students who arrived in Britain as refugees. During the weeks following the Soviet intervention in Hungary around 25,000 people were killed...
    After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain

  • How students make sense of the historical concepts of change, continuity and development

      Teaching History article
    First order knowledge and understanding, relating to the ‘stuff' of history, is, of course, absolutely fundamental to the development of children's historical knowledge and understanding. However, as Frances Blow shows, in a contribution to a series of articles exploring second order concepts in history published in Teaching History by Peter...
    How students make sense of the historical concepts of change, continuity and development

  • Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Roger Wendover has come to define GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions. Roger is a few weeks into his second placement and his mentor, John, has been taken aback by the rigid approach that he has adopted in teaching Year 10. John was...
    Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions

  • The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

      Article
    Helen Rawlings reviews the recent literature which has prompted a fundamental reappraisal of the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition — first established in 1478 in Castile under Queen Isabella I and suppressed in 1834 by Queen Isabella II — has left its indelible mark on the whole course of Spain’s...
    The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

  • Popular revolt and the rise of early modern states

      Historian article
    In the 1960s and 1970s, historians and sociologists who were not specialists in the Middle Ages constructed models of pre-industrial crowds and revolt to understand the distinctiveness of modern, post-French Revolutionary, Europe. Foremost among these scholars were George Rudé, a historian of eighteenth century England and France, and Charles Tilly,...
    Popular revolt and the rise of early modern states

  • Triumphs Show 141: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

      Teaching History feature
    Headteachers, Hungarians and hats: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life It is 9.35am on a wet Tuesday. As the rain falls outside, fingers twitch in a Y ear 9 history classroom. The instruction is given and 28 pairs of hands spring into action, rifling...
    Triumphs Show 141: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

  • The 'Era of the Dictators' Reconsidered

      Article
    Kenneth Thomson reflects on major aspects of the ‘era of the dictators’ after the collapse of Soviet Communism and its satellite regimes. In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, almost the whole of continental Europe was ruled by dictatorships of various political hues. Even countries, like France,...
    The 'Era of the Dictators' Reconsidered

  • 'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30

      Historian article
    During the years from 1826 to 1830 Benjamin Disraeli went through the slough of despond. His first major biographer,William Flavelle Monypenny, observed the ‘clouds of despondency which were now settling upon Disraeli's mind'. In his magisterial life of the great tory leader Robert Blake commented that ‘after completing Part II...
    'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30

  • Dimensions of diversity - How do we improve our teaching of social complexity in history?

      E-CPD
    This E-CPD unit has been devised to support teachers in developing their teaching of diversity within history programmes of study from Key Stage 3 to A level. Click on the introduction below to see three video clips in which the authors introduce the resource and set the context!
    Dimensions of diversity - How do we improve our teaching of social complexity in history?

  • Using the Attainment Target in Key Stage 3: Interpretations of History

      Article
    An individual's knowledge of history is dependent not only on the events of the past but also on the way such events are presented. These presentations of the past come in a variety of forms and an educated person should be able to reflect purposefully on their worth...
    Using the Attainment Target in Key Stage 3: Interpretations of History

  • A history trainee nearing the end of their main teaching placement

      HITT Film 2
    This film has been produced to accompany materials in the History Initial Teacher Training units. It contains a Key Stage 3 history lesson and lesson debrief. The materials are not designed specifically to be examples of good practice; rather they are to promote discussion about good practice in teacher training....
    A history trainee nearing the end of their main teaching placement

  • Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom It has become a truism that Britain is a multi-cultural society yet, as Mohamud and Whitburn argue, there is still a great deal of thinking to be done by history teachers in accounting...
    Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom

  • Factors influencing pupil take-up of history post Key Stage 3: an exploratory enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Last year, in Teaching History 132, Richard Harris and Terry Haydn shared their findings from a research project exploring children's views of school history. Here they report on further research, seeking to explain the wide...
    Factors influencing pupil take-up of history post Key Stage 3: an exploratory enquiry

  • Seeing a different picture: exploring migration through the lens of history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rosie Sheldrake and Dale Banham here share the results of their desire to use the curriculum changes which are upon us to do something which they had intended for some time. Their modern world study...
    Seeing a different picture: exploring migration through the lens of history

  • Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Louis is having problems teaching the history of medicine course at GCSE.
    Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

  • The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links. Some of the ICT references are now dated. How do we use new technology to enhance our History teaching? New technology...
    The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'

  • The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham's article in Teaching History 92, ‘Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning to build a substantiated argument in Year 7' has influenced much debate about extended writing. It has been influential way beyond the history education community. It also raised new questions about the management of historical content....
    The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

  • A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many of us would love to have the problems encountered by Oliver Knight at his previous school. His students were simply doing too well - leaving him wondering how to stretch them to the limit...
    A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE

  • Disraeli, Peel and the Corn Laws: the making of a conservative reputation

      Historian article
    125 years after his death, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, still provides the political lode-star for generations of Conservatives. Lately, for the first time in 30 years, Disraeli's name and example has been enthusiastically evoked by the party leadership and David Cameron has projected himself as a Disraeli for the...
    Disraeli, Peel and the Corn Laws: the making of a conservative reputation

  • 1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses

      Article
    Ian Arthurson reasseses the Cornish rising of 1497 on its 500th anniversary. On the 400th anniversary of this rebellion there was a good deal of agreement about the Wars of the Roses: ‘The slaughter of people was greater than in any former war on English soil ... The standard of...
    1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses

  • Stalin 1928-1941: Listen to the podcast of Dr Jane McDermid's lecture on Stalin

      Podcast
    On 15th November Dr Jane McDermid gave the first lecture in the HA's Sixth Form Lecture Series on the making of the Stalinist State at the National Archives, Kew. Click on the following links below to listen to her lecture and read the lecture notes!
    Stalin 1928-1941: Listen to the podcast of Dr Jane McDermid's lecture on Stalin

  • Identity shakers: cultural encounters and the development of pupils' multiple identities

      Teaching History article
    History teachers are increasingly used to the idea that helping pupils reflect on and understand identities is one of the central purposes of history education. In this article Jamie B yrom and Michael Riley reflect on what thinking about identity historically might mean; by considering the history of encounters between...
    Identity shakers: cultural encounters and the development of pupils' multiple identities