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  • Cunning Plan 192: A suggested itinerary for visiting Berlin

      Teaching History feature
    The principles and approaches outlined in our article on Pages 59 to 64 of this edition can be applied to any site, although not necessarily all on the same trip! If you are visiting Berlin, and you want to examine it as a contested space, in what order might you...
    Cunning Plan 192: A suggested itinerary for visiting Berlin

  • Slaying dragons and sorcerers in Year 12: in search of historical argument

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Reflecting on his GCSE and post-16 students' essays, Michael Fordham began to wonder if there were something missing in the way he taught students to write. Work on structure that was designed to strengthen argument...
    Slaying dragons and sorcerers in Year 12: in search of historical argument

  • Primary History 8

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Editorial 5 News 7 Professional Development in History Teaching: promoting chameleons or flamingos in the post-Dearing era - Angela Horton 9 Tudor Banquet: a case study of a history through drama project - Jo Lawrie 11 Re-Enactments: bringing history alive or fancy dress? - Rod Helps 13 The Use of Drama...
    Primary History 8

  • Out and About with Garibaldi

      Historian feature
    One approach used by British local historians is to explore and examine patterns in the landscape, based on a belief that the patterns will instruct and develop our historical awareness and understanding. Although approaches to local history may be less developed abroad, we can still apply our techniques to the...
    Out and About with Garibaldi

  • Resourcing sources

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    As a subject leader, are you often asked to provide historical objects and other documentary sources to support your colleagues with the teaching of history, but don’t know where to start looking? Well – read on! Teachers need to give children experience of handling a range of sources of information....
    Resourcing sources

  • History in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.  Much has been written about the benefits of teaching history in the primary school.  A sense of history provides identity. Understanding history...
    History in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1

  • An attempt to make Year 9 Masters of Learning

      Teaching History article
    ‘Much to learn you still have!' An attempt to make Year 9 Masters of Learning How can history teachers structure learning pathways through historical content in ways that engage and challenge all pupils, that enable them to work at an appropriate pace and that also encourage pupils to self-assess and...
    An attempt to make Year 9 Masters of Learning

  • Eric Hobsbawm: Is History Dangerous?

      Article
    Professor Eric Hobsbawm’s address at the Annual Dinner of the Historical Association meeting in Cambridge, April 1999, on accepting the Medlicott Medal. Our annual award the Medlicott Medal is awarded to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history.
    Eric Hobsbawm: Is History Dangerous?

  • No puzzle, no learning: how to make your site visits rigorous, fascinating and indispensable

      Teaching History article
    Chris Culpin builds on recent articles by Andrew Wrenn and Mike Murray with numerous practical ideas for good quality site visits at Key Stage 3 and GCSE. But this article offers much more than practical tips. Chris Culpin sets out a rationale for the centrality of site visits in the...
    No puzzle, no learning: how to make your site visits rigorous, fascinating and indispensable

  • What's History got to do with me? Hooking a range of learners into History

      E-CPD
    *This is a fascinating unit containing lots of useful and relevant information. It was clearly ahead of its time, produced in 2006 and many of the suggestions and questions posed by Haydn, Kitson and Lomas are still current today. There is much good work going on in History classrooms at...
    What's History got to do with me? Hooking a range of learners into History

  • When your parents were young…

      Primary History article
    This article 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 community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Susie Townsend explores the theme of life in the 1990s,...
    When your parents were young…

  • The end of the Cold War with a personal perspective

      Primary History article
    This article 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 community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today The beginning of the 1990s, just as this publication was...
    The end of the Cold War with a personal perspective

  • Thinking about local history - Step by step local study

      Article
    The short walk from our school to St Mary's Parish Church, Leyton, takes us past late Victorian terraces, post-Second World War apartment blocks and early twentyfirst century social housing in one of the most densely populated and ethnically diverse parts of East London, sandwiched as it is between Stratford and...
    Thinking about local history - Step by step local study

  • AS & A2 History

      Article
    My complaints about the new AS/A2 specifications have been reported elsewhere,1 but below I outline my main concerns regarding the new examination system, which I see as a missed opportunity to introduce a 16-19 History curriculum that meets the needs of young people in the twenty-first century. The Curriculum 2000...
    AS & A2 History

  • Politics, history and stories about the Cold War

      Article
    Interpretation of the Cold War is a fascinating area. Many students begin to study it certain pre-formed ideas – gleaned from their parents, perhaps, or from films or computer games. Historians have interpreted it in different ways – and those who believe in the ‘twenty-year rule’ that historical judgment is...
    Politics, history and stories about the Cold War

  • Primary History 26

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    3 Primary Noticeboard – edited by Tim Lomas 7 Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from Ofsted – Scott Harrison (Read article) 10 Rhyd-y-Car cottages at St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life – Susanna Wood (Read article) 12 Asking the right questions. a study of the ability...
    Primary History 26

  • Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with creating progress: History teachers are creating progress - the idea and the reality. Why rely on others to define and design it? The creation process is every teacher's property and there is no celing on what we might help pupils achieve. JFK, Progression models, Roleplay in...
    Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

  • Primary History 42: Getting Out

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 HA Centenary Day and Competition 05 Editorial 06 Primary Noticeboard 08 In My View: the debate upon the English National Curriculum for history at KS2 — Robert Guyver and Jon Nichol 11 The Taunton Market Project: an innovative collaboration — Sue Berry 14 Geography and history: exploring the local...
    Primary History 42: Getting Out

  • What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia

      Teaching History article
    Is it structure or the selection of knowledge that makes writing historical narrative so difficult? Where does a conceptual focus on change, or causation, come in? James Ellis set out to explore the challenges his Year 9 pupils faced in writing historical narratives about change. Inspired by the work of...
    What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia

  • Chronology through ICT

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Introduction: Research into chronological understanding Chronological understanding is both one of history's most important disciplinary organising concepts (Lee and Shemilt: 2004) required for developing a full understanding of history, and certainly one of the most researched, though often with a broader remit...
    Chronology through ICT

  • 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

  • Defying the ‘constrictive grip of typologies’

      Journal article
    History teachers have frequently made recourse to character cards as a device to help young people, each assigned specific roles, to understand how different kinds of people responded in different ways to particular situations in the past. Edward FitzGerald builds on this tradition, demonstrating the value of using rich historical...
    Defying the ‘constrictive grip of typologies’

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 157: Teaching Overview

      Teaching History feature
    Overwhelmed by overview? Bewildered by how to teach bigger pictures? Tied up in mental knots by trying to work out the difference between thematic stories, frameworks and outlines? You are not alone. Like many history teachers, you feel more confident when teaching depth studies but find yourself beating a rapid...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 157: Teaching Overview

  • World War II evacuation project - A living history experience

      Primary History case study
    Editorial note: The WOW factor. When we first received and read the World War II Evacuation Project case study we simply went WOW! It was genuinely mind-blowing. Below we publish the main sections of the report. They bring to life an invaluable, ground-breaking case-study of national significance. The case-study involved...
    World War II evacuation project - A living history experience

  • 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