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  • Saint Robert and the Deer

      Article
    It is almost a commonplace that there is an affinity between a holy man and the creatures of the wild. The archetype is St. Francis of Assisi but the phenomenon was well marked both before and after his time. I would like to consider briefly an episode in the life...
    Saint Robert and the Deer

  • Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: Melville Miles, student history teacher, is in Term 3 of his PGCE year. Melville has taught a number of excellent lessons in which he enabled pupils to reach high levels of historical understanding. His diagnostic assessment of pupils' work is unusually sophisticated for a PGCE student. Melville's...
    Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

  • Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: William Cuffay, PGCE student, is struggling to find a questioning style which will develop pupils' thinking. Problem: William Cuffay is half way through the second term of his PGCE course and is showing considerable promise. He is thorough in his lesson preparation, and has a clear sense...
    Move Me On 94: Struggling to find questioning style to develop pupils' thinking

  • Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from OFSTED

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. An OFSTED advisor discusses their views on the standards of primary history.
    Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from OFSTED

  • A Zeppelin VC remembered

      Historian article
    Ronan Thomas introduces the bravery of Rex Warneford who was the first pilot successfully to bring down a Zeppelin in 1915. Rex Warneford was one of Britain’s ‘bravest of the brave’. A Royal Navy fighter pilot during the First World War, he was awarded the Victoria Cross by King George...
    A Zeppelin VC remembered

  • Excluded by men? Joanna the Mad, patriarchy and a charge of insanity

      Historian article
    Glyn Redworth re-appraises the life of an unfortunate queen. Joanna of Castile was a pretty child. She had an oval face and a long delicate nose. Her skin was felt to be attractively light in colour as was her hair. Fiercely intelligent, the basics of Latin came easily to her....
    Excluded by men? Joanna the Mad, patriarchy and a charge of insanity

  • Maths and History - Cross Curricular Case Study

      Case Study
    Maths and Museums: Norwich Castle Museum Working with Key Stage 3 MathsFaye Kalloniatis (Museum Education Manager, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service)The project, ‘Storming the Castle, challenged the idea that museums are not places where schools can extend their students' maths skills. On the contrary, the project demonstrated that museums can...
    Maths and History - Cross Curricular Case Study

  • Films: Mikhail Gorbachev – Interpretations

      Film series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    How much of what Russia is today, how its people behave, and how they are perceived is dependent on its history and those that have led it? Was it the first melting pot of the world? Do its broad range of cultural traditions and diversity play a part in its...
    Films: Mikhail Gorbachev – Interpretations

  • Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Fred North treats ‘Assessment for Learning' as though it is a bolt-on extra unconnected to his learning objectives Fred is an enthusiastic trainee who has generally made a good impression on students and colleagues over the course of his first term. He has been determined to establish a...
    Move Me On 156: Assessment for Learning

  • Heritage and History

      Article
    Moves to protect and record the historic environment began at the turn of the 20th century with the establishment of the National Trust in 1895, the Victoria County History in 1899, and the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for England in 1908. The VCH took the antiquarians’ task onto a...
    Heritage and History

  • Teaching history to young children

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History is a subject whose meaning is properly appreciated only in our maturity. In their old age we find those we consider wisest turning to Gibbon, Burckhardt, and Thucydides. The richness and endlessly elaborated meaning of...
    Teaching history to young children

  • Understanding Chronology at Key Stage 2

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Introduction - Issues and Concerns Was I wise to accept the invitation to write this piece? There has been little research to shed light on the question [of what understanding of chronology can we expect of...
    Understanding Chronology at Key Stage 2

  • Women in the Tramway Industry 1914-1919

      Article
    Rosemary Thacker writes about one unusual area of expansion of war-time work for women in the Great War.
    Women in the Tramway Industry 1914-1919

  • Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry

      Journal article
    Inspired by the claim that local history can be taught effectively ‘Any time, any place, anywhere’, Katharine Burn and Jason Todd took up the challenge of planning Key Stage 3 enquiries related to an unusual and diverse, but frequently neglected and often despised, corner of Oxford. They sought not merely...
    Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry

  • Progression and coherence in history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. "The focus for much of the planning and the teaching is on pockets of knowledge at basic levels. Thus, the notion that pupils can progress and do better over time in history is not well established...
    Progression and coherence in history

  • Move Me On 99: Struggling with just about everything

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Sophie Scholl, PGCE Student. is experiencing very seious difficulties...in just about everything. Problem: Sophie is approaching the end of her second school placement. It was clear from her first placement report that she was finding the process of learning to teach extremely difficult, but she displayed a...
    Move Me On 99: Struggling with just about everything

  • Cunning Plan 98: Britain 1750-1900

      Teaching History feature
    Isaac Newton: ‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction'. Learning that results from action and reaction deepens pupils' understanding of historical content and use of key study skills. It forces them to understand, to wrestle, to articulate, to challenge, to question. Getting pupils to act and react...
    Cunning Plan 98: Britain 1750-1900

  • An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

      Teaching History article
    It is common practice to invite survivors of the Holocaust to speak about their experiences to pupils in schools and colleges. Systematic reflection on the value of working with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides and on how to make the most of doing so is rarer, however. In...
    An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

  • The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Much has been said and written about different learning styles in recent years. Some people have responded with evangelical enthusiasm, others exercise a more cautious approach, whilst a few disregard it completely. Certainly, there are...
    The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles

  • Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

      Teaching History article
    The work of Gary Howells will be familiar to many readers of Teaching History—indeed, his last article is heavily cited elsewhere in this edition. He presents here the case in favour of using sources at AS level (16-17 years old). Clearly, historians need to have some form of acquaintance with...
    Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

  • Cunning Plan 114: building overview understanding of 19th-century social history

      Teaching History feature
    This five-lesson sequence gradually builds overview understanding of aspects of 19th century social history through a depth study of the campaigner and reformer, Josephine Butler. Through the sequence, pupils build on earlier work on historical significance, first, by reviewing their understanding of the huge range of reasons why things get...
    Cunning Plan 114: building overview understanding of 19th-century social history

  • Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes particular problems can lead to unexpected solutions. In this case, Sally Burnham decided to solve a problem that she had identified among her Year 12 students by changing the way in which she teaches Year 7. Her Year 12s were finding it difficult to set appropriate questions for their...
    Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

  • From Champion to Hero: Engaging Pupils in a study of significant Olympians

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Allocated the task of researching and presenting ideas for teaching about significant Olympians, I thought: ‘Brilliant, this is the easy one'. How wrong can one be! I expected to be able to access a plethora of...
    From Champion to Hero: Engaging Pupils in a study of significant Olympians

  • Unpicking the learning potential in creative approaches to studying World War II

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘The biggest issue for school history is its limited place in the curriculum.' (Ofsted, 2007) This central concern of Ofsted's 2007 report, History in the balance, could equally apply to the teaching of drama in primary schools....
    Unpicking the learning potential in creative approaches to studying World War II

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Locating and Mapping the Jews of Medieval Lincoln

      Article
    As part of a project to identify and write biographies of all of the Jews of the medieval Lincoln Jewry, Natasha Jenman, Luka Liu, and Josh Outhwaite have been working on records of Jewish property ownership in the city across the thirteenth century. This allows them to identify those individuals who will be...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Locating and Mapping the Jews of Medieval Lincoln