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Teaching & Assessing Historical Understanding
Teaching of History Series No.63
The purpose of this pamphlet is to broach several issues relating to a child's understanding of some key concepts in History. These are:
Cause and consequence.
Time concepts, i.e. change, continuity, development, progression and regression.
Evidence.
Significance.
Similarity and difference.
Under each of these headings, consideration will be given to: ...
Teaching & Assessing Historical Understanding
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History 372
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 372
Women and the Making of History: Introduction (pp 518-533) – Madeleine Pelling, Lilian Tabois
Women and History Now: A Conversation (pp 534-560) – Alana Harris, Amara Thornton, Helen Carr, Takkara Brunson
Reimagining This Creature: Hospitality and Autohagiography in the Visions of Margery Kempe (pp 561-577) – Joan Fitzpatrick
‘I Have...
History 372
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The world at our feet: a history of shoes
Primary History article
From the moment we start to walk, shoes become an ever-present part of our daily life, protecting our feet from damage, moisture, heat and cold, expressing our personality and fashion tastes and enabling us to carry out a variety of activities both safely and effectively. Shoes are an essential part...
The world at our feet: a history of shoes
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The History of Afro-Brazilian People
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
This work is part of the following research projects: ‘Indians, Quilombolas, and Napalm’ funded by the Ministry of Education (MEC/CAPES-Brazil), and ‘Teaching-learning methodology and evaluation in controversial social issues of humanities and its...
The History of Afro-Brazilian People
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History 375
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 107, Issue 375
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History in Public: Power and Process, Harm and Help (pp 211-234) – Christel Annemieke Romein, Laura Doak, Hannah Parker, Janet Weston (Open Access)
Everyday Public History (pp 235-248) – Huw Halstead (Open Access)
History and Public Memory...
History 375
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Exploring the history of our place with very young children
Primary History article
Karin Doull considers how we can develop historical thinking in the Early Years in this article about locality and place. Karin offers helpful suggestions for developing historical vocabulary and assessing understanding.
How can we seek to encourage Foundation Stage children to engage with historical thinking and processes? What appears to...
Exploring the history of our place with very young children
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History 378
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 107, Issue 378
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Prisoners, Sanctuary-Seekers, and Workers: Jews at the Tower of London, 1189–1290 (pp 815-835) – Rory Maclellan
Mercenaries, Migration and the Crew of the Mary Rose (pp 836-860) – Samantha Nelson, Catherine Fletcher (Open access)
Political Charity:...
History 378
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Writing history
Primary History article
Writing, composition, is the hallmark of the historian - and a central aspect of pupils' historical education. So, who better to describe what being a writer of history entails than the president of the Historical Association...
Writing history
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Using stories to support history in the EYFS
Primary History article
Stories can be used as starting points for planning topics. Activities suggested below relate to ‘Understanding the world’ including Early Learning Goal 13 – People and communities:
Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
They know about similarities and...
Using stories to support history in the EYFS
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History 377
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 107, Issue 377
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William of Tyre, Translatio Imperii and the Genesis of the First Crusade: Or, the Challenges of Writing History (pp 624-650) – Andrew D. Buck
Honour, Memory and Lineage: Remembering the English Civil War through Funeral Memorials...
History 377
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Teaching History 188: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 188: Representing History
History teachers are familiar with the challenges that arise as we try to help our students make historical sense of past worlds. Building historical representations of the past is imaginatively demanding – it requires ‘world-making’ and narrative expertise. The challenges are probative, not merely...
Teaching History 188: Out now
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Pandemics in history: similarity and difference
Primary History article
I was inspired to put pen to paper to include an article putting Coronavirus in some sort of historical perspective after reading Peter Frankopan’s article in The Times newspaper on 28 March. The article entitled ‘Pandemics are terrifying but they can make the world better’ is written by Peter Frankopan...
Pandemics in history: similarity and difference
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Teaching History 186: Removing Barriers
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article for free)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
10 What did it mean to them? Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3 – Jacob Olivey (Read article)
18 It’s just reading, right? Exploring how Year 12 students approach sources – Jacqueline Vyrnwy-Pierce...
Teaching History 186: Removing Barriers
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The Roman army: Spy!
Lesson Plan
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.
The year 5/6 class visited Julius Caesar's camp before he invaded Britain in 55 BC. I wanted the children to get...
The Roman army: Spy!
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Using inventories in Key Stage 2 history
Primary History article
Continuing the focus on using historical sources, this article by Clare Lally introduces us to the use of historical inventories. Using examples from the Tudor period, Clare considers how inventories can be used to explore diversity of experience between rich and poor.
At every stage of historical enquiry, from primary...
Using inventories in Key Stage 2 history
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History 376
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 107, Issue 376
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‘The King's Other Islands of the Sea’: The Channel Islands in the Plantagenet Realm, 1254–1341 (pp 453-483) – Alexander Kelleher (Open Access)
How Global was Medieval Prussia? An Analysis of the Barlaam and Josaphat Manuscript of...
History 376
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History 370
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 370
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Plenary Indulgence for the Personal Participation in Crusades to the Holy Land as Presented by Crusade Preachers (pp 170-199) – Valentin L. Portnykh
Magic as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis (pp 200-220) – Tabitha Stanmore...
History 370
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History 360
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 360
Articles
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Britain, Australia and the Secret Ballot Act of 1872 (pp 209-227) – Edwin Jaggard
The First Step to a Nation? The Irish Postal Service and the Home Rule Crisis (pp 228-244) – Claire Fitzpatrick...
History 360
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Bolingbroke
Classic Pamphlet
There were three Bolingbrokes: (1) The politician and minister of Queen Anne's reign, whose career ended with his flight to France in April 1715; (2) The exile, after his brief service under "The Old Pretender," who was permitted in 1723 to return to England, but not to his seat in...
Bolingbroke
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Doing History at University 2024
Thinking of studying history at university?
Tuesday 2 JulyUniversity of Sheffield
Book your place now
We are pleased to be hosting a Doing History at University event for students and teachers in partnership with the University of Sheffield. The Department of History is one of the largest, most active and successful centres for teaching and historical...
Doing History at University 2024
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Primary History 84
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
05 HA Primary News
08 Using stories to support early history skills and understanding in the EYFS – Sandra Kirkland (Read article)
10 Democratising history lessons in Key Stage 1: how pupil voice shapes history teaching and learning in our school – Stuart Boydell...
Primary History 84
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History Abridged: The census
Historian feature
History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles
Most of us are aware...
History Abridged: The census
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Primary History 62: History & ICT
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Editorial and In My View
04 Editorial
05 Using ICT to develop pupils' historical knowledge, understa nding and thinking the view from Ofsted - Michael Maddison HMI
06 The digital revolution - Jerome Freeman (Read article)
07 History, ICT and the digital age - Ben Walsh (Read article)
Features
08 Diogenes:...
Primary History 62: History & ICT
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History 373
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 106, Issue 373
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Anchorites, Wise Folk and Magical Practitioners in Twelfth-Century England (pp 709-726) – Tom Licence
A Mother Educating her Daughter Remotely through Familial Correspondence: The Letter as a Form of Female Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century (pp...
History 373
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Historical anniversaries calendar
Article
Historical anniversaries can be a great way to get children and young people interested in a subject or to raise awareness about a particular issue.
This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality history and education resources along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of...
Historical anniversaries calendar
