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  • A local history toolkit

      Toolkit
    Produced by the Historical Association for the National Literacy Trust's "The Olden Times" newspaper resource, May 2011. For more recent resources on local history enquiries see: Local significant individuals Local history scheme of work: your local high street Local history scheme of work: transport Incorporating local history into a scheme...
    A local history toolkit

  • Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Marion Hartog is wondering how to approach teaching the Holocaust, especially with her ‘difficult' Year 9.
    Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust

  • Nutshell 141 - HEDP

      Teaching History feature
    Why has the Institute of Education in London set up their  ‘Holocaust Education Development Programme': isn't there already an awful lot of attention given to the Holocaust in schools? It is true that the Holocaust has become ‘probably the most talked about and oft-represented event of the twentieth century' and...
    Nutshell 141 - HEDP

  • Polychronicon 141: Adolf Eichmann

      Teaching History feature
    Almost 60 years ago Adolf Eichmann went on trial for crimes committed against the Jews while he was in the service of the Nazi regime. His capture by the Israeli secret service and his abduction from Argentina triggered a number of journalistic books that portrayed him as a pathological monster...
    Polychronicon 141: Adolf Eichmann

  • Deepening post-16 students' historical engagement with the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Peter Morgan represents what is best about the reflective practitioner - an experienced teacher of some 15 years' standing, he continues to challenge himself and to seek ways to improve and develop his classroom practice. Deeply influenced by the pedagogy and resources that he encountered on the CPD of the Institute...
    Deepening post-16 students' historical engagement with the Holocaust

  • 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

  • Recorded webinar: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms 

      Webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
    In recent years, disciplinary thinking has been somewhat overlooked as the 'what' of curriculum has taken the front seat for many schools. This introductory session explains the rationale for these webinars and considers some principles for re-thinking our approach with disciplinary thinking.  This is a recording of the opening webinar...
    Recorded webinar: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms 

  • Recorded webinar: Invisible assessment within an enquiry

      Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
    This session explores the constant, routine assessment that goes on throughout the history lessons that make up a single enquiry – assessment that forms such a natural part of history teaching that it’s sometimes difficult to notice it as assessment. What is the purpose of this assessment? How can we...
    Recorded webinar: Invisible assessment within an enquiry

  • Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

      Article
    This webinar starts with a basic overview of the city-states of Classical Greece (roughly 500 to 350 BC) and Sparta’s place within their geography and history. It then looks at some common myths about the nature of Spartan society and politics, focusing on areas where recent research has transformed our...
    Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

  • Recorded Webinar: Why have the Chinese rediscovered World War II?

      Article
    The Chinese regime never used to want to talk about their country’s experience in World War Two. The Japanese occupation of parts of China was felt to be a humiliating episode that was best forgotten, and the Communists were uncomfortable that their nationalist enemy Chiang Kai-Shek had been China’s main...
    Recorded Webinar: Why have the Chinese rediscovered World War II?

  • Recorded webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

      Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom: Session 1
    Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom What does great oracy look like in history?  This webinar explores the features of good student oracy in a non-disciplinary sense, but also within the setting of a history classroom. It explores how to identify these features in the day to day of teaching...
    Recorded webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

  • Being historically rigorous with creativity

      Teaching History article
    After a Fellowship in Holocaust Education at the Imperial War Museum, Andy Lawrence decided that something was missing in normal approaches to teaching emotive and controversial issues such as genocide, a deficit demonstrated by recent research by the Holocaust Education Development Programme. As part of his fellowship, Lawrence created an...
    Being historically rigorous with creativity

  • 'Picture This': A simple technique to teach complex concepts

      Teaching History article
    When Peter Clements was introduced to the creative strategy that he describes in this article, his immediate reaction was to dismiss it as childish and trivial. Yet, upon closer examination, he realised that ‘Picture This' offered far more than a lively way of increasing variety and engagement in his GCSE...
    'Picture This': A simple technique to teach complex concepts

  • Cunning Plan 140: bringing history to life

      Teaching History feature
    Whether you are have been inspired to emulate the achievements of the Living History group described in this issue's Triumphs Show, or are simply seeking to create some ‘authentic' props for an intriguing starter, or exploratory role-play, Jonathan Davies here explains how you can find out more about historical re-enactment...
    Cunning Plan 140: bringing history to life

  • Triumphs Show 140: leading a school re-enactment group

      Teaching History feature
    Who would true valour see...let him (or her) lead a school re-enactment group While many teachers may have called on the services of historical re-enactors to inspire their students and create a living sense of the past, few have taken on the challenge of establishing their own historical re-enactment group....
    Triumphs Show 140: leading a school re-enactment group

  • How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review

      Teaching History article
    Thomas Tallis history department have an interesting approach to planning. Whereas, all too often, this most time-consuming and intellectually demanding of teachers’ tasks is rendered invisible, and is supposed to happen by magic in the middle of the night, this department chose to make the planning process genuinely collaborative, pivotal...
    How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review

  • The Miraculous Crusade: The Role of the Mystical and Miraculous in the Morale and Motivation of the First Crusade

      Historian article
    The First Crusade may be considered the only really successful crusade in that it achieved its stated goal, but it demanded great courage and stamina of its participants in their journey to the Holy City of Jerusalem, fighting their way through an unforgiving hostile territory. But courage and stamina by...
    The Miraculous Crusade: The Role of the Mystical and Miraculous in the Morale and Motivation of the First Crusade

  • Occult and Witches

      Historian article
    Occult and Witches: Some Dramatic and Real Practitioners of the Occult in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods One purpose of this paper is to show a correspondence between real-life Elizabethan and Jacobean practitioners of the occult and the depiction of their theatrical counterparts, with particular reference to perceived differences between,...
    Occult and Witches

  • Move Me On 139: teaching about change and continuity

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Debbie Samson is finding it difficult to teach about change and continuity in meaningful ways.
    Move Me On 139: teaching about change and continuity

  • Developing multiperspectivity through cartoon analysis

      Teaching History article
    Studying cartoons can be an engaging experience for students but it can also present students with considerable difficulties. Cartoons are typically highly complex texts that are often very hard to interpret and students need to develop appropriate reading strategies to interpret cartoons effectively. In this article Ulrich Schnakenberg explores ways...
    Developing multiperspectivity through cartoon analysis

  • Triumphs Show 139: Whodunnit? The Felling mining disaster of 1812

      Teaching History feature
    Whodunnit? The Felling mining disaster, 1812 The room buzzes as pathologists swap stories about injuries on the latest bodies. Some have virtually all limbs missing, others have been crushed by rockfall. Others have been found seemingly asleep with not a mark on their bodies. You have stepped into a Year...
    Triumphs Show 139: Whodunnit? The Felling mining disaster of 1812

  • Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

      HA Virtual Forum, November 2021
    We are at a vital moment in our attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Global warming is an inter-disciplinary challenge for the world and an inter-disciplinary challenge in education, too. In this talk, Alison Kitson argues that history provides a vital perspective that enables young people to understand our interaction...
    Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

  • Engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about 'progress'

      Teaching History article
    Jonathan White wanted to fill a gap in his students' knowledge of the history of ideas. Despite the appearance of Marx, Smith, Darwin and Malthus in the department's workscheme for Year 9, his Year 13 students appeared to lack any meaningful grasp of these nineteenth-century intellectual reference points. White therefore...
    Engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about 'progress'

  • Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain

  • Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet