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  • 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

  • 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'

  • 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

  • Ideas for Assemblies: the role of the international community in the First World War

      Article
    As part of our First World War centenary-themed assemblies, in the last issue of Primary History we focused on the importance of the local dimension. Here we have chosen to look at the role of the international community in the First World War. This approach reflects and celebrates our multi-cultural...
    Ideas for Assemblies: the role of the international community in the First World War

  • History 351

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online Disciplinary...
    History 351

  • 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

  • The English Reformation and the Rise of an Empire

      Early Modern British History
    In this podcast Dr Steven Gunn examines the significance and impact of the English Reformation, the church and state relationship, changes in church structure, the impact of changes on the individual, the effect of the English Reformation on England's status within the British Isles and within Europe and the rise...
    The English Reformation and the Rise of an Empire

  • 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

  • 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

  • Teaching with Meaning: Supporting Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In essence, history is a record of human affairs. The problem in making this record is that events are past and gone and have to be reconstructed. Evidence may be uncertain and incomplete. Inevitably, several...
    Teaching with Meaning: Supporting Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom

  • 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

  • Supporting initial teacher trainees to think about chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. As a teacher trainer I am very conscious that many prospective primary teachers' formal history education stops at the age of 14. As a consequence their knowledge and understanding of history and sense...
    Supporting initial teacher trainees to think about chronology

  • Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

      Article
    Connecting Classrooms: bringing together Bradford and Peshawar, primary and secondary schools, history and English In this article, Dianne Excell shares her experience of a crossphase, collaborative project funded by the British Council that brought together teachers and pupils from three schools in Bradford and five schools in Peshawar, Pakistan. Although...
    Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

  • 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

  • Cooperative Learning: the place of pupil involvement in a history textbook

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupil involvement is at the heart of every good history lesson. Its planning ensures that pupils are given the opportunity to think for themselves, share ideas, discuss evidence and debate points. The history education community...
    Cooperative Learning: the place of pupil involvement in a history textbook

  • 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

  • Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A trip to the battlefields of the First World War throws into stark relief the challenges presented by work on interpretations related to historical sites. Andrew Wrenn first drew attention to the difficulties of promoting...
    Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

  • Limited Monarchy in Great Britain in the Eighteenth Century

      Classic Pamphlet
    There was hardly anything in Great Britain which political thinkers on the continent of Europe in the eighteenth century admired more than its limited monarchy. But what were the limitations? Were they deliberate or not? Were they effected by acts of parliament or by the silent encroachments of usage? Did...
    Limited Monarchy in Great Britain in the Eighteenth Century

  • Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

      Article
    Working in a small rural primary school in North Gloucestershire I was inspired by national news reports from Iraq to change the focus of our Ancient History study from Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, ‘the land between the rivers'. A study of this region of the Middle East fulfilled so many...
    Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

  • History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)

      Immersive online course for history teachers looking to develop beyond their early career
    Book now Autumn 2025 cohort (Closed)  Spring 2026 cohort - Welcome meeting: Thursday 12 March, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Second meeting: Thursday 23 April, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Assessment meeting: Thursday 2 July, 4.45pm-5.45pm What is the History Teacher Development Programme? The History Teacher Development Programme is an immersive online programme aimed at history teachers who...
    History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)

  • History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885

      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 In 2020 there was lots...
    History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885

  • A living timeline

      Primary History case study
    The problem Pupils' background knowledge - Tudors and Victorians Here at Knebworth House, primary school children visit us to enhance their learning of both the Tudors and the Victorians, in particular; both are popular periods to study within the primary curriculum and both have special significance for us at Knebworth....
    A living timeline

  • The Long Winding Road to the White House

      Historian article
    The Long Winding Road to the White House: caucuses, primaries and national party conventions in the history of American presidential elections Almost the Last Hurrah At last we know officially. In late August at their 40th national convention in Tampa, Florida, the Republican party formally nominated its candidates to run...
    The Long Winding Road to the White House

  • The British Empire: Relations with the American colonies

      Early Modern World History
    In this podcast Professor Stephen Conway of University College London discusses the relations between the American colonies and Britain before, during and after the American War of Independence.
    The British Empire: Relations with the American colonies