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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2021–22
At the heart of this Teacher Fellowship programme in partnership with the British Association for Local History was the concept of integrating local history into the classroom through the stories of the people and places which make the history of your school's community exciting and unique. Through the lens of local history...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
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New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
Multipage Article
This project has been created on the initiative of Professor Julie. V. Gottlieb, Dept. of History, University of Sheffield. British political history, political conflict, appeasement and the Munich Crisis (1938) itself is the focus of her research and publications. Rather than approach these topics from ‘traditional’, elite and history from...
New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
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Suffrage enquiries: free history and citizenship lesson sequences
History and citizenship lesson sequences for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A-level
Looking for ways to better teach the suffrage campaign and move away from focusing on just a handful of individuals? To accompany our searchable database of suffrage campaigners, we have created a number of free fully-resourced history enquiries and citizenship activities, each featuring a sequence of lessons:
Suffrage enquiries: free history and citizenship lesson sequences
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Do Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children see themselves in your history classroom?
Helen Snelson and Richard Kerridge; resources from HA conference session, Bristol, May 2022
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK.
Richard Kerridge and Helen Snelson have worked with the historian Professor Becky Taylor to produce a range of teaching resources for teaching the history of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller...
Do Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children see themselves in your history classroom?
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Lesson sequence: Twentieth-century Europe - taster lesson
Article
This series of lessons has been designed to support the teaching of recent 20th century history at Key Stage 3. This sequence of lessons will enable students to learn some of the historical context to the European Union and Britain’s relationship with the European Union today. It combines overview and...
Lesson sequence: Twentieth-century Europe - taster lesson
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Lesson sequence: Muslim Tommies - taster lesson
Article
This series of lessons has been designed to teach students something of the role of Muslim soldiers in the British Army in the First World War. By working with what remains of the War and how the Muslim contribution has been remembered, students will learn that the narrative is more...
Lesson sequence: Muslim Tommies - taster lesson
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2022
This Teacher Fellowship Programme focused on developing the teaching of the history of equality and diversity in postwar Britain using video and audio sources. The programme was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council BBC History 100 Fellowship. The programme has sought to refresh the teaching of modern British history in schools by diversifying its content,...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2018
The 2018 Teacher Fellowship Programme looked at developing teaching of the Age of Revolutions (1755-1848) and was fully funded by the Age of Revolution education legacy project. It focused on embedding the teaching of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century history in UK schools through the development of teacher subject knowledge and subject...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
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Lesson sequence: Eighteenth-century politics – taster lesson
Article
This series of lessons has been designed to enable students to learn about power and political change in Britain in the period 1688–1783. Through the unfolding narrative, students learn about key concepts, including monarchy, government and Parliament, identify causal factors and develop a sense of period. Finally, they assess how power...
Lesson sequence: Eighteenth-century politics – taster lesson
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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.
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Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945: KS3 resource packs
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Free Teacher Fellowship lesson sequences
Multipage Article
Finding the time to research, plan and produce thoughtful, appropriately demanding and well crafted sequences of lessons is a challenge. At the Historical Association we are supporting our members by carefully collating a number of free fully resourced lesson sequences that have been produced through funded projects.
The Teacher Fellowship programmes operated...
Free Teacher Fellowship lesson sequences
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2019
Transatlantic slavery remains one of the most widely taught topics in secondary schools' history curricula and poses challenges of principle and practice that require considerable reflection and critical rigour. This Teacher Fellowship Programme explored the teaching of Britain's complex entanglement in transatlantic slavery and abolition, and of the legacies of that...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Conflict, Art and Remembrance
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2019
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a commemorative art installation of 888,246 handmade ceramic poppies at the Tower of London in 2014, by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper. It has been described as “the most popular art installation as well as arguably the most effective expression of commemoration...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Conflict, Art and Remembrance
