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An Investigation into Finding Effective Ways of Presenting a Written Source to Students
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
Written historical sources can be quite challenging for students to analyse in secondary school. They are sometimes long and tedious to read as well as containing difficult and awkward text. The presentation of...
An Investigation into Finding Effective Ways of Presenting a Written Source to Students
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Faction in Tudor England
Classic Pamphlet
'This wicked Tower must be fed with blood' - W. S. Gilbert's dialogue sums up the popular myth of Tudor England. This pamphlet looks at the reality, a society and politics necessarily divided into rival factions by the pulls of patronage, local loyalty and the implications of personal monarchy, and...
Faction in Tudor England
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Primary History 89
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
06 HA Update
08 How have schools interpreted the new EYFS Framework – including the introduction of the ‘Past and Present’ ELG? – Simon Ellis and Mackay Howe (Read article)
12 Teaching ‘these islands’ from prehistoric times to 1066 – Paul Bracey (Read article)
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Primary History 89
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Teaching History 140: Creative History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Ellen Buxton - Fog over channel; continent accessible? Year 8 use counterfactual reasoning to explore place and social upheaval in eighteenth-century France and Britain (Read article)
16 Gary Hillyard - Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution (Read article)
25 Triumphs show: Leading a...
Teaching History 140: Creative History
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Constructing and Contesting Queenship in Ninth- and Early Tenth-Century England
Article
The ninth and early tenth centuries represent something of a ‘low point’ in the history of English queenship. Many of the women who married into the West Saxon royal family, the main English dynasty left standing after Viking conquests, are either entirely unknown or survive as little more than names....
Constructing and Contesting Queenship in Ninth- and Early Tenth-Century England
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Using diaries to stimulate children's understanding of the past
Primary History article
Children develop their understanding of the past through a range of historical sources of evidence. Written sources may provide different types of information for children to work from. Records such as census returns or street directories provide information about families and tradespeople living in a particular communities and old maps...
Using diaries to stimulate children's understanding of the past
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Primary History 16
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 A Good Place for an Investigation - Diana Knapp
7 Primary Conference Report - Russell Carter
8 How a Little Hollywood Can Help History - Vincent Jones
10 Historical Fiction and Museum Objects - Neil Curtis, Janet Goolnick, Kate Hopkins
12 Primary Update
13 Young National Trust Theatre - Sally Littlefair ...
Primary History 16
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Mystery Suitcase
Lesson Plan exemplar
Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving...
Mystery Suitcase
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Teaching History 172: Cause and consequence
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Teaching History is the UK’s leading professional journal for history teachers at secondary level.It is free to HA Secondary Members.
Read an edition of Teaching History for free
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’: using a patchwork quilt analogy...
Teaching History 172: Cause and consequence
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Teaching History 139: Analysing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7 analyse the changing relationship of Henry II and Becket - Tim Jenner (Read article)
11 Encountering diversity in the history of ideas: engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about ‘progress' - Jonathan White (Read article)
14 Cunning Plan: Teaching about...
Teaching History 139: Analysing History
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New Universities of the 60s
Historian article
New Universities of the 60s: One professor's recollections: glad confident morning and after
Living history
How long do professional historians wait before writing about their own personal involvement in episodes of lasting significance in history? If they wait too long they are dead, and their evidence is lost. A striking recent...
New Universities of the 60s
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In my view: Why we need a national talent search to identify and nurture our most able children
Primary History article
[Editorial note: Sir Cyril Taylor provides an overview of the challenge for the maintained sector that the education of Gifted and Talented pupils presents. In relation to the primary phase reliable data is not available: but there is no evidence that G&T provision is any better for 3-11 year olds...
In my view: Why we need a national talent search to identify and nurture our most able children
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Writing & History Overview
Primary History article
History provides an extremely rich context for literacy and writing, see Case Study 3: Evacuees. As such, Writing History is an element in a whole school policy towards literacy that emphasises Language Across the Curriculum for all subjects and areas. references. Case Study 1 illuminates the concept that pupil writing permeates...
Writing & History Overview
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The Dilemma of Senator Williams
IJHLTR Article
Abstract
The titled “Senator Williams, Do You Vote For or Against on the Diego Resolution before Senate” encourages students to engage in historical empathy and critical inquiry on the possible military intervention in the small hypothetical country of Ersatz. The Diego Resolution asks the Senate to endorse the President’s plan to move a...
The Dilemma of Senator Williams
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Scheme of Work: Early Islam, including Baghdad
Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (resourced)
Children can be introduced to the idea that people from other civilisations have contributed to many ideas that impact on us still. They can learn about some of the differences in way of life between citizens of Baghdad and London c. AD 900. Links can be made with other cultures...
Scheme of Work: Early Islam, including Baghdad
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The Slave trade and British Abolition, 1787-1807
Historian article
In the 1780’s the British slave trade thrived. In that decade alone more than one thousand British and British colonial slave ships sailed for the slave coasts of Africa and transported more than 300,000 Africans. There was little evidence that here was a system uncertain about its economic future. If...
The Slave trade and British Abolition, 1787-1807
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Scheme of Work: The Georgians
Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
This unit focuses on the Georgian period across the mid to late 18th century. It is during this period that Britain (rather than England) begins to consolidate the gains made by Tudor and Stuart explorers and traders. The seeds of the British Empire of the Victorian period are planted at this...
Scheme of Work: The Georgians
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Case Study: Children's questions about historical pictures
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
Pictures are an important source of evidence for children to use to find out about the past. They have an immediate impact and children of all ages and abilities find that they have...
Case Study: Children's questions about historical pictures
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On-demand webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
On-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
What does this series cover?
This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary thinking has perhaps become something of an afterthought in curriculum planning, for a range of valid reasons, and start to explore ways to build it back in. It will encourage colleagues to hold up a mirror to...
On-demand webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
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Take a fresh look at corporate membership
New and improved features
Share the benefits with your colleagues and students
If you’re looking for wider support for your whole school history provision, then it might be time to consider corporate membership. Corporate membership offers a comprehensive package of support. It delivers all the benefits of individual membership plus an enhanced tier of resource and CPD access to boost the development...
Take a fresh look at corporate membership
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Teaching History 191: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 191
Please note: the print edition of Teaching History 191 will arrive with members in mid-July.
Has the materiality of the past been neglected in secondary school history? Many history teachers might be surprised at the question. After all, enquiries featuring social, economic and cultural realities have...
Teaching History 191: Out now
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Teaching pupils to analyse cartoons
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
In this practical account of a key aspect of history departmental policy, Joseph O'Neill presents a rationale for the systematic teaching of analytical techniques. Alert to the dangers of mechanistic and formulaic examination responses, the...
Teaching pupils to analyse cartoons
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Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods
Teaching History article
Kate Hammond sets out a rationale for linking the National Curriculum requirement to study interpretations of history with her pupils’ own evidence handling skills. She makes connections with history-teacher-led debates and innovations in both areas, but particularly the work of Howells (2005). She describes and evaluates a learning sequence that...
Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods
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Viking Burial Mound
Lesson Plan (KS2)
Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here.
In this simulation of an excavation, the children investigate a past event and imaginatively reconstruct what happened, on the basis of the...
Viking Burial Mound
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Mughal moments made memorable by Movie Maker
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Rosalind Stirzaker has introduced some fascinating topics at Key Stage 3. Her pupils, living in Dubai, have the opportunity to study the Islamic Empire, the Mughal Empire and Mespotamia as well as many of the...
Mughal moments made memorable by Movie Maker
