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  • Film: Yeltsin's agenda

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Edwin Bacon (University of Lincoln), discusses the emergence of Russia as a democratic country and its nascent capitalist economy. He outlines how the issues Yeltsin faced in government such as the 1993 constitutional crisis, followed by the shelling by tanks in Moscow led to Yeltsin rewriting...
    Film: Yeltsin's agenda

  • Recorded webinar: Invisible assessment within an enquiry

      Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
    Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom Session 1: Invisible assessment within an enquiry 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...
    Recorded webinar: Invisible assessment within an enquiry

  • History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

      GCSE Resource
    This short guidance is designed to help you compare the 9-1 GCSE specifications. The first examinations of these new linear GCSEs was in the summer of 2018.
    History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

  • 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

  • On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors

      Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
    Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 5: 'Move Me On’ skills practice This final webinar of the series brings together the strands of mentoring through a ‘Move Me On’ style case-studies workshop, with participants tackling common mentoring quandaries together. Release date: Tuesday 22 April 2025Expiry...
    On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors

  • On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor

      Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
    Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 4: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories The fourth webinar considers how to support beginning and early career history teachers to tackle more sensitive, emotive and controversial histories in the classroom, and harness the potential of their mentee...
    On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor

  • On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor

      Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
    Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 3: Observation and feedback In this third webinar, Laura and Victoria explore strategies for dialogic and history-specific observation and post-lesson reflection. This session will focus on how mentors can forefront historical learning in the observation cycle. Release date: Tuesday...
    On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor

  • On-demand webinar: Supporting planning as a mentor

      Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
    Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 2: Supporting planning In this second webinar, Victoria and Laura model how they get beginning and early career teachers planning with a strong sense of coherence, direction and historical purpose over a sequence of lessons. Release date: Tuesday 22...
    On-demand webinar: Supporting planning as a mentor

  • On-demand webinar: Developing subject knowledge as a mentor

      Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
    Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 1: Developing subject knowledge This first webinar will begin with the question: What do beginning and early career history teachers need to know about history? It will explore the substantive and disciplinary subject knowledge that is essential for...
    On-demand webinar: Developing subject knowledge as a mentor

  • 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

  • Film: Khrushchev - De-Stalinization

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Alexander Titov (Queen's University of Belfast), discusses how and why Khrushchev opened up discussions about Stalin and his legacy, the risk that people would blame the current leadership once the scale of repressions became known. Dr Titov examines the both the content of the secret speech (Stalin’s...
    Film: Khrushchev - De-Stalinization

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Narrative is shedding its status as the ‘underrated skill’, re-emerging as a requirement of the new GCSE in England. As Counsell has argued, constructing a narrative is ‘no easy option’, however, and asking students to ‘Write an account…’ lacks the comfortable familiarity of ‘Explain why…’ or ‘How far…’. Fortunately, many...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Historical significance first appeared in England’s National Curriculum for history in 1995. It entered the assessment framework (Level Descriptions) in 2008. In 2014, it became part of the History NC ‘Aims’. One thing never changes, however: it is hard. But history teachers have written a great deal about historical significance...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance

  • Films: Mikhail Gorbachev – Interpretations

      Film series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    How much of what Russia is today, how its people behave, and how they are perceived is dependent on its history and those that have led it? Was it the first melting pot of the world? Do its broad range of cultural traditions and diversity play a part in its...
    Films: Mikhail Gorbachev – Interpretations

  • Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: Because of the demands of the modular structure on non-specialists, the school's Key Stage 3 schemes of work are extremely detailed, and include individual lesson plans that staff are encouraged to use or adapt depending on their level of confidence. Arnie began by relying on the plan...
    Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

      Teaching History feature: 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...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

  • Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: William Cuffay, PGCE student, is struggling to find a questioning style which will develop pupils' thinking. Problem: William Cuffay is half way through the second term of his PGCE course and is showing considerable promise. He is thorough in his lesson preparation, and has a clear sense...
    Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking

  • Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' looks at teaching Imperial China at the beginning of Year 7.
    Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

  • Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: Melville Miles, student history teacher, is in Term 3 of his PGCE year. Melville has taught a number of excellent lessons in which he enabled pupils to reach high levels of historical understanding. His diagnostic assessment of pupils' work is unusually sophisticated for a PGCE student. Melville's...
    Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

  • Young Quills reviews 2025

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2024 for this year’s selection. Divided by age suitability the books are given to schools on the condition that the children and young people there write...
    Young Quills reviews 2025

  • Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

      Teaching History feature
    Heather Scott gives a detailed account of the opening of a new HA branch in West Yorkshire.
    Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

  • Nutshell 105

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' focuses on the development of speaking and listening skills in Year 9.
    Nutshell 105

  • Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

      Teaching History feature
    Caroline Godsell describes the reactions and concerns of two Year 9 classes after the 9/11 attack.
    Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

  • Young Quills winners and reviews 2024

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills winners and highly commended have been announced for his year. This competition for historical fiction for children is a way of celebrating and recognising those authors who are continuing the long tradition of creative writing about the past for children. All of the books are reviewed by...
    Young Quills winners and reviews 2024

  • Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons

      Teaching History feature
    What makes someone an Icon? A cunning plan to explore the relative significance of individuals involved in abolishing the slave trade.
    Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons