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  • 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

  • Move Me On 138: Uncertain about his Year 7 teaching in a competency based curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Amir Timur is very uncertain about his Year 7 teaching within a competency-based curriculum. Amir has just returned from the induction day at his second placement school and is very worried about the Year 7 curriculum he has to teach. The history, geography and RE departments are working...
    Move Me On 138: Uncertain about his Year 7 teaching in a competency based curriculum

  • Polychronicon 138: The Civil Rights Movement

      Teaching History feature
    "He was The One, The Hero, The One Fearless Person for whom we had waited. I hadn't even realized before that we had been waiting for Martin Luther King, Jr, but we had." So spoke the novelist Alice Walker in 1972, looking back on her teenage years. And so wrote...
    Polychronicon 138: The Civil Rights Movement

  • Developing meaningful cross-curricular approaches

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Some history departments find themselves under pressure to incorporate skills and competences from alternative curricula. Others find that with the pressure to ease transition issues in Year 7, history can almost disappear into an amalgam...
    Developing meaningful cross-curricular approaches

  • 'How do ideas travel?' East meets west - and history meets science

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jamie Byrom is well-known to readers of Teaching History, not least for introducing us to the concept ‘professional wrestling' in the history department (Teaching History,133, Empire Edition). That article, authored with Michael Riley, focused on...
    'How do ideas travel?' East meets west - and history meets science

  • Triumphs Show 138: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle

      Teaching History feature
    Licking the stones: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle in 360 degrees This is the story of one history department that, in collaboration with a local historical site, embarked on a ‘curriculum co-development project' with the art department. The aim was to use learning experiences outside the classroom to bring...
    Triumphs Show 138: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle

  • Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

  • Recorded webinar: Ordinary people - Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

      Recorded webinar
    Recorded webinar: Ordinary people - Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

  • Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

      Teaching History feature
    It nearly began like this: ‘On Christmas Eve 1968, two episcopalians and a Roman Catholic were in orbit around the Moon.' I was writing a book called Earthrise, about the first views of Earth from space. Most other books about the Apollo programme of the 1960s and 1970s took an...
    Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

  • Triumphs Show 137: Assessing through reflection

      Teaching History feature
    Assessing through reflection: How one history department has found a way to satisfy the Senior Leadership Team, parents and pupils through tightly focused self-assessment Teachers are caught between a rock and hard place when it comes to assessment. Senior leaders want to see evidence of regular ‘levelling' while (most) pupils...
    Triumphs Show 137: Assessing through reflection

  • Recorded webinar: The step up: from GCSE to A-level

      Amazing A-level: developing your teaching of level three learners
    Webinar series: Amazing A-level: developing your teaching of level three learners Session 1: The step up: from GCSE to A-levelSuggested viewing: November 2022 The step up from GCSE to A-levels is sometimes a daunting one for students. In this session we will explore the key differences in requirements in learning between GCSE...
    Recorded webinar: The step up: from GCSE to A-level