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  • Epistemic insights: bringing subject disciplines together

      Primary History article
    "Teaching epistemic insight goes hand in hand with teaching a broad and balanced curriculum. It includes building students’ understanding of the ways that different types of disciplinary knowledge can help us to address questions that bridge subjects and disciplines." (Teaching and Learning about Epistemic Insight brochure, https://crc.up.pt/wp-content/uploads/sites/101/2017/09/epistemic-insight-brochure.pdf) The Epistemic Insight Project...
    Epistemic insights: bringing subject disciplines together

  • Cunning Plan 99: 'a world study after 1900'

      Teaching History feature
    This unit could still become a trawl through two World Wars and then the Cold War (if you don't run out of time). So, when reviewing your planning why not take advantage of being at the turn of a century? Ask pupils what will the twentieth century be remembered for?...
    Cunning Plan 99: 'a world study after 1900'

  • How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Dan Moorhouse suggests that history teachers are sometimes put off role-play or simulations because the amount of preparation - intellectual and practical - appears both time-consuming and expensive. He argues that effective simulations need be...
    How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable

  • Integration and cross-curricularity: History, Humanities And Social Studies

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. From the late 1960s until 1989 history was almost universally taught in primary schools as an element in integrated crosscurricular programmes, normally social studies or humanities. The 1989/1990 National Curriculum: History radically changed this. It introduced...
    Integration and cross-curricularity: History, Humanities And Social Studies

  • Literacy Time Plus+ My Writing Progress Record

      Review
    Synopsis: Self-assessment sheets for Early Years literacy, which the child completes in discussion with the teacher. Review: This would be useful if Early Years staff have not got any other assessment strategy in place. It contains colour sheets for the child to complete, stating what level they are on and...
    Literacy Time Plus+ My Writing Progress Record

  • Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica

      Teaching History article
    After discussing a new book about the Mexica (Aztecs) during a routine meeting with a trainee teacher, Niamh Jennings decided to construct a sequence of lessons around the history of the Mexica Empire. Struck by the vivid storytelling of historian Camilla Townsend in her book Fifth Sun, and fascinated by...
    Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica

  • Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History teachers are increasingly good at designing exercises which develop skill in evidence analysis. The ubiquitous ‘source' is invariably analysed for utility and reliability. But how do pupils integrate such understandings with extended written work?...
    Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

  • Exeter & District Branch Programme

      Article
    Programme 2025 Wednesday 26 March 2025, 6-7.30pm Queen’s Lecture Theatre 4.2, University of Exeter Nicholas Orme Public Lecture 2025, presented by the Centre for Medieval Studies Medieval Lived Religion: The Complex Lives of Medieval Ritual Objects Speaker: Prof. Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading) Preceded by a postgraduate research symposium (13h-15h,...
    Exeter & District Branch Programme

  • Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Claire Riley explains how she developed and improved the ‘layers of inference' diagram-already a popular device since Hilary Cooper's work-as a way of getting pupils fascinated by challenging texts and pictures. Working with the whole ability range in Year 9 she analyses her successes and failures, offering many practical suggestions...
    Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3

  • Expertise in its development stage: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians

      Teaching History article
    The Director of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), Deborah Eyre, is one of the foremost advocates of gifted and talented children, and their education, in the UK. She plans to improve the education of the most able students by asking subject communities to work on how...
    Expertise in its development stage: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians

  • The Historian 109: Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The British Government's Confidential Files on the United States - A. D. Harvey (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Anne Curry 12 Smithfield's Bartholomew Fair - Dianne Payne (Read Article) 18 The Charles Dickens Primary School Project - Alan Parkinson (Read Article) 22 Medieval ‘Signs and...
    The Historian 109: Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

  • WWI and the flu pandemic

      Historian article
    In our continuing Aspects of War series Hugh Gault reveals that the flu pandemic, which began during the First World War, presented another danger that challenged people’s lives and relationships. Wounded in the neck on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, Arthur Conan Doyle’s son Kingsley...
    WWI and the flu pandemic

  • In My View: Writing History

      Article
    First Steps Writing history comes not at the beginning, but at the end of a process of selection and research. The first step is to choose a subject and develop some questions about it. Then comes the research into secondary and, much more excitingly, primary sources. Finally,the writing takes shape....
    In My View: Writing History

  • My essays could go on forever: using Key Stage 3 to improve performance at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    History teachers are waking up to the fact that you cannot raise standards in GCSE by very much if you leave this work until Year 10. To leave it that late is to resort to surface, tactical moves rather than to address the deep reasons why so many pupils find...
    My essays could go on forever: using Key Stage 3 to improve performance at GCSE

  • Interpretations of History: Issues for Teachers in the Development of Pupils' Understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. This article is based on collaborative work between staff at a University department of educational studies and a comprehensive school. Ian Davies and Rob Williams reviews the status and meaning of interpretations in history education...
    Interpretations of History: Issues for Teachers in the Development of Pupils' Understanding

  • Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog

      History journal blog
    Image: Social media sites have provided a platform for fierce debates about the statues of slave traders such as Edward Colston. Even if we think the so-called ‘culture war’ is an overinflated red herring, there’s no denying that some of the fiercest debates about history are occurring online. Contests over...
    Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog

  • Reading Branch Programme

      Article
    Branch Contact: All enquiries to Chris Sexton sexton44@gmail.com 07957 184342. Venue: Lecture Theatre, Reading School, Erleigh Road, Reading RG1 5LW (gate code essential and obtainable from above contact). Associate Membership: £10 per annum, Lectures free to national and associate HA members, students and school pupils. Visitors £3 per lecture. (Fees...
    Reading Branch Programme

  • Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance

      Teaching History article
    Offered five weeks to teach ‘whatever he wanted’ to Year 7, Andrew Slater decided that he wished to tackle the concept of significance head-on early in his students’ time in his school. He chose the expectedly unfamiliar substantive content of the Khmer Empire, challenging his students to justify the significance of...
    Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance

  • Using the back cover image: Westonzoyland War Memorial

      Primary History feature
    The image on the back cover is of the war memorial in Westonzoyland, Somerset. It consists of a concrete plinth with a metal shell-case set on top, on the front of which is a plaque which reads: ‘This shell was presented by Westonzoyland Parish Council to commemorate the memory of...
    Using the back cover image: Westonzoyland War Memorial

  • The Establishment of English Protestantism 1558-1608

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Reformation which Queen Elizabeth and her ministers created was a series of acts of state, but if we consider it only at the level of official hopes and pronouncements, we will paint a picture of hopeless unreality. For the Reformation to success, the government needed to follow up its...
    The Establishment of English Protestantism 1558-1608

  • Occult and Witches

      Historian article
    Occult and Witches: Some Dramatic and Real Practitioners of the Occult in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods One purpose of this paper is to show a correspondence between real-life Elizabethan and Jacobean practitioners of the occult and the depiction of their theatrical counterparts, with particular reference to perceived differences between,...
    Occult and Witches

  • Year 9 face up to historical difference

      Teaching History article
    How many people does it take to make an Essex man? Year 9 face up to historical difference Teaching her Key Stage 3 students in Essex, Catherine McCrory was struck by the stark contrast between their enthusiasm for studying diverse histories of Africa and the Americas and their reluctance to...
    Year 9 face up to historical difference

  • A view from the classroom: Teachers TV, The Staffordshire Hoard And 'Doing History'

      Primary History article
    When the Historical Association was approached by Teachers' TV to produce ‘Great Ideas for Teaching History' at Key Stage 2, it was inevitable that I, as a full time teacher on the Primary Committee, would have no escape. My school agreed I could take part, with the involvement of two...
    A view from the classroom: Teachers TV, The Staffordshire Hoard And 'Doing History'

  • The Historian 150: Aspects of Africa

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article for free) 6 The British Empire on trial – Gregory Gifford (Read article) 12 Zulu and the end of Empire – Nicolas Kinloch (Read article) 17 Legacies of the Cement Armada – Steven Pierce (Read article) 22 The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia: neighbouring strangers? –...
    The Historian 150: Aspects of Africa

  • Teaching History 50

      Journal
    Editorial - Towards 100 2 News 6 Articles: History Teachers for the 1990s and Beyond - Helen Patrick 10 Survival or Training? - Martin Booth, Gwenifer Shawyer and Richard Brown 16 Jorvik: some School Children's Reactions - Jeffrey Watkin 21 Research Work in the Primary School - D. Joan Jones...
    Teaching History 50