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Key Concepts at Key Stage 3
Key Concepts
Please note: This unit was produced before the 2014 National Curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links. For more recent resources on key concepts, see our What's the Wisdom on series.
The key concepts can be divided into three...
Key Concepts at Key Stage 3
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Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses
Historian article
May I introduce you to Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke? I'm very fond of this modern imagined portrait by Graham Turner, partly because of the colour and detail but chiefly because it conveys a respect for the people who lived in the past and especially for Anne herself. My interest...
Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses
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Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
Classic Pamphlet
Radicalism with a large "R", unlike Conservatism with a large "C" and Liberalism with a large "L", is not a historical term of even proximate precision. There was never a Radical Party with a national organization, local associations, or a treasury. But there were, and there are, "Radicals", generally qualified...
Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837
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The Bristol Riots
Classic Pamphlet
In 1831, Bristol suffered the worst outbreak of urban rioting since the Gordon Riots in London over fifty years earlier. Twelve rioters were officially declared to have died as a result of confrontations with troops and special constables, and many more unidentifiable corpses were discovered among the ruins of the...
The Bristol Riots
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Teaching History 20
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3
What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5
Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8
16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10
Comment, 13
Reports:
Language and History Teaching, 15
History...
Teaching History 20
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Teaching History 24
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 3
`Public and Private Lives: Germany 1914 to 1939' - Diana Devlin, 3
The Perils of Clio in France - Clive Church, 7
Trends in History Teaching in France - L. 0. Ward, 12
How to Evaluate a History Department - John Higham, 14
Constraints in...
Teaching History 24
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Teaching History 30
Journal
Editorial, 2
Notes on Contributors, 3
Down among the Deadmen: Graveyard Surveys for Local Studies - Brian Dix and Richard Smart, 3
Educational Objectives for History - Ten Years On -John Fines, 8
Notes and News, 10
A Primary School's Experiment with a Micro-Computor - James Gent, 11
History Abandoned?...
Teaching History 30
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Chronology and local history: Year 6
Primary History case study
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Editorial note: This short paper introduces a highly creative, imaginative and enthralling case-study of a local history project for year 6 pupils. The teaching programme has a chronological spine that provides coherence and focus. Chronology is...
Chronology and local history: Year 6
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Teaching History 32
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Role of History in Multi-Cultural Education - David Edgington, 3
The Perception of Indian History Teachers about the Ideal Pupil - Vijay K. Raina, 6
Can History Survive? - Trevor Fisher, 8
Report: Teaching A Level History: A Conference Report - Sandra Armstrong, 10
The History Curriculum...
Teaching History 32
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Teaching History 39
Journal
Editorial, 2
A Small Local Investigation - David Wright, 3
A Journey Back into the Past - Rebecca Bell, 5
History Workshop Centre (Report), 7
History of Education in Schools - Richard Aldrich, 8
Christmas Holiday Lecture Quiz Prizewinner, 11
Recreating a Trip to York in Victorian Times - Mike...
Teaching History 39
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Teaching History 44
Journal
Editorial
Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones
Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol
An Appreciation of Joe Hunt
Childwrite, Teresa Clark
Computer Update
The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift
The Contributors
Town and Country in the...
Teaching History 44
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Teaching History 45
Journal
Editorial 2
Taking advantage of Tollund Man, Rob David 3
Artefacts in the Primary School, John Davies 6
Video and History, Alan Farmer 9
Teaching History in Malawi's Secondary Schools, Sean Morrow 14
A One-year Sixthform Local Studies Course, M.C. Holvoak 20
Report: Women's History Seminar, Sue Millar 22
Letters...
Teaching History 45
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Teaching History 53
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Multiculturalism and the Lower School History Syllabus: Towards a Practical Approach. - Paul Goalen 8
Using Audio-Visual Media with Slow Learners: A New Approach in History - Keith Hodgkinson 17
New History and Media Education - Derek McKiernan 20
Local History Studies in the Classroom...
Teaching History 53
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Teaching History 59
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
History and Economic Awareness in the National Curriculum - David Kerr
Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Women's History through Local History - Dave Welbourne
Keeping the Past under Review - Linda Vitagliano and Peter Lim
History as Ethnography: a Pyschological Evaluation of a Theatre in Education Project - George Shand, Rosemary Linnell and Derek...
Teaching History 59
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Waking up to complexity
Teaching History article
Waking up to complexity: using Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers to challenge over-determined causal explanations
Teaching student to construct causal argument is a staple of history teaching and, in this year, questions about the causes of the First World War are particularly pertinent and once again the public eye. Claire Holliss,...
Waking up to complexity
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Teaching History 154: A Sense of History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Dan Smith - Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period (Read article)
18 Katharine Burn - Making sense of the eighteenth century (Read article)
28 Cunning Plan: Layers of history (Read article)
30 Paula...
Teaching History 154: A Sense of History
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Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014
Changes to the secondary history curriculum
Although modifications to the content of the National Curriculum for history have not been as dramatic as once feared, the effective revocation of the previous attainment target is radical indeed. When these changes are considered alongside the fact that more than half of maintained secondary schools (all academies and free...
Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014
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Churches as a local historical source
Primary History Article
At Key Stage 1 children should learn about significant events, (e.g. the Great Fire of London) and about people and places in their locality. At Key Stage 2 they should learn about British settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots (e.g. Anglo-Saxon art and culture) and do a local history study (e.g....
Churches as a local historical source
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Primary History 66
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial
05 The National Curriculum For History From September 2014: The View From Ofsted - Michael Maddison HMI
08 HA Primary News
09 Ideas for Assemblies - Polly Tucknott and Helen Maddison (Read article)
10 Early years foundation stage - Hilary Cooper (Read article)
12 Curriculum planning: How to...
Primary History 66
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Regional Aspects of the Scottish Reformation
Classic Pamphlet
Reformation Perspective
In recent years studies of the Scottish Reformation have undergone a marked change. Religion is seldom advanced as the sole mainspring of the events of 1560 and explanations have been increasingly sought in political and economic terms. On the political side growing opposition to French influence within Scotland...
Regional Aspects of the Scottish Reformation
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Women in Late Medieval Bristol
Classic Pamphlet
During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Bristol was one of England's greatest towns, with a population of perhaps 100,000 after the Black Death of 1348. Its status was recognised in 1373, with its creation as the realm's first provincial urban county, but only in 1542, with the creation of the...
Women in Late Medieval Bristol
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The International Journal Volume 12, Number 1
Journal
Editorial
Sweden
Ethical Values and History: a mutual relationship?
Niklas Ammert, Linnaeus University (Kalmar)
Australia
Teaching History Using Feature Films: practitioner acuity and cognitive neuroscientific validation
Debra Donnelly, University of Newcastle
Greece
The Difficult Relationship Between the History of the Present and School History in Greece: cinema as...
The International Journal Volume 12, Number 1
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The effect of the loss of the American Colonies upon British Policy
Classic Pamphlet
(1) Problems of an Empire in ruinsTwo weeks after Yorktown, but before the news of that disaster had reached England, George III wrote to Lord North that "The dye is now cast whether this shall be a great Empire or the least dignified of European states." England had not fought...
The effect of the loss of the American Colonies upon British Policy
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My Favourite Place - Beamish
Historian feature
Hopping off a tram at Beamish Museum, you're stepping straight into life in Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian times. What I really love about Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, is that it not only shows how communities in the region used to live - but also gives you a...
My Favourite Place - Beamish
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Franz Ferdinand
Historian article
The Kapuzinerkirche (Church of the Capuchins) in Vienna's Neue Markt is one of the more curious attractions of the city, housing as it does the Kaisergruft crypt in which the Habsburgs are entombed, or rather in which their bodies are entombed: the hearts are usually kept in the Loreto Chapel...
Franz Ferdinand
