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Case study: Creative approaches to learning about the Bristol blitz
Primary History article
The University of the West of England, Bristol has strong partnerships with many local schools and is developing innovative ways in working with trainees, teachers and children. The approach taken to learning about the Bristol Blitz provides an example of this partnership.
The Bristol Blitz day
The day was planned to...
Case study: Creative approaches to learning about the Bristol blitz
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Smooth transitions: Key Stage 2 to 3
Primary History article
Transitions. Pivotal points in a child’s life and a phase in the educational journey that should be celebrated. How do we ensure that transitions are efficiently prepared for, when an ever increasing list of school pressures means that transitions can feel like the poor relation in the list of priorities?...
Smooth transitions: Key Stage 2 to 3
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An Introduction to Primary History
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Primary History is the only dedicated magazine for history coordinators and subject leaders at primary level and is distributed to over 2,000 of our members every term (February, May and October). Subscribers include teachers, PGCE students, schools and school librarians.
Become an HA Primary Member for subscription to Primary History and...
An Introduction to Primary History
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Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
Story is the crucial factor in children’s awareness of past times in their ‘mythic’ phase of mental development, see page 4. Everyone loves a story, stories ‘open out fresh fields, the illimitable beckoning of horizons to imagination…...
Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds
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Teaching History 63
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Using Evidence in the GCSE History Classroom - Heather Fry
18 Preparing to Teach about Causation - Ian Davies and Margaret Marshall
23 History Through Drama: A Curriculum Development Project - Graeme Easdown
28 The Appliance of Science: History and the Use of Artefacts in the Primary Curriculum - Peter Vass
33...
Teaching History 63
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Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
Film: An introduction to the African-American Civil Rights Movement
The US civil rights battles of the latter half of the twentieth century are a common part of popular culture - and yet the detail is often overlooked in favour of the headlines. It is a positive step that so many of us now know the names of Rosa Parks...
Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
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Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch or Warrior?
Transition Training Session 4
This is the 4th of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project:
Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations
Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history
Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history
Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc - Saint,...
Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch or Warrior?
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The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2
Journal
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research
Volume 2, Number 2 July 2002
Letting the Past Speak
Contributor
John Fines (1938-1999)
An obituary by Jon Nichol 3
Introduction 5
1 History In Schools
1. What is History for in Schools? 6
2. The Respect that is Owed to the...
The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2
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Teaching History 61
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Who is the National Curriculum in History for? - Sylvia Collicott
13 A Race between Education and Catastrophe: The Final Report of the History Working Group - Sue Styles
17 Why does it Matter? A Personal Response to the Final Report - Ian Dawson
22 From the Ivory Tower: A University...
Teaching History 61
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The Vikings: ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?
Primary History article
This article outlines how one Year 4 teacher approached the topic of the Vikings. The teaching of The Vikings allows for a range of historical concepts to be explored such as:
Chronological understanding – how long did Viking influence last? Where does it appear on the timeline of Britain? What...
The Vikings: ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?
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The Historian 131: 1066 in 2016
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews (See latest reviews online)
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 1066 in 2016 - David Bates (Read article)
12 Populism, Progressivism and Trumpism: third party, inter-party and intra-party candidates in campaigns for the American presidency - Michael Dunne (Read article)
19 The President’s Column
20 Admiral Lord Mountbatten: man of science...
The Historian 131: 1066 in 2016
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Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Exploring Values Through History, Rethinking roleplay, Gladstone spritual of Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2, Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley, NQT's, Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing and much more...
‘I’ve been in the Reichstag’: rethinking roleplay - Ian Luff...
Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling
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‘Miss, what’s the point of sources?’ Helping Year 11 to understand the discipline
Teaching History article
Clare Bartington noticed that her students’ focus on the specific kinds of question used in examinations appeared to have undermined their understanding of how historians actually use sources. Instead of approaching the traces or ‘leftovers’ of the past as potential sources of evidence in relation to a particular question, her students believed...
‘Miss, what’s the point of sources?’ Helping Year 11 to understand the discipline
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What is so important about interpretations?
Primary History article
Tim Lomas explores one of the key disciplinary concepts that form part of school history – that of interpretations and representations. This has been a staple of the National Curriculum since its inception. While many schools have a successful approach to it, others struggle. In this article Tim Lomas discusses its...
What is so important about interpretations?
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Happy 200th birthday Florence Nightingale!
Primary History article
2020 is undoubtedly going to be an important year in the nursing world and is a significant historical anniversary. The World Health Organisation has declared it the ‘Year of the Nurse and Midwife’ in part because Florence Nightingale, the famous ‘Lady with the Lamp’, will be celebrating her 200th birthday...
Happy 200th birthday Florence Nightingale!
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Teaching ‘changes within living memory’: making the most of your school
Primary History article
The Key Stage 1 curriculum requires an exploration of changes within living memory, and what better way to do this than discovering the history of your own school! In this article, Helen Crawford and Sandra Kirkland provide guidance and suggested activities to explore change and continuity in your own locality. ...
Teaching ‘changes within living memory’: making the most of your school
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Cunning Plan 196: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?
Teaching History feature
In this Cunning Plan, Jonathon Dallimore and Martin Douglas explore how teaching about the history of the suffrage movement in Australia can be used to raise questions both about the campaign for votes for women in Australia and wider questions about what defines Australian history. They also open up the...
Cunning Plan 196: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... schooling and the British Empire
Teaching History feature
The history of schooling and the British Empire encompasses a complex body of literature. Histories of formal education intersect with work on race, class and capitalism and link to adjacent fields such as histories of childhood. A basic contention shared throughout this field, however, is that there was a profound...
What Have Historians Been Arguing About... schooling and the British Empire
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Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
Teaching History article
Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
‘Blackadder for real' is how the British journalist and broadcaster, Ian Hislop, characterised The Wipers Time, the newspaper published on the front line by members of the 12th Battalion Sherwood, and recently brought...
Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War
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Every picture tells a story: Sage comme une image
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
A crucial issue in using history as a vehicle for learning is the professional development of colleagues with whom you are working. This is an activity I did with students on a PGCE...
Every picture tells a story: Sage comme une image
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Opinion: the populist politics of Joseph Chamberlain and Donald Trump
Historian feature
What are the pitfalls and pluses of comparing historical figures with contemporary politicians? Chris Godden argues that recent comparisons of Donald Trump with one of his predecessors may be wide of the mark, but that a more illuminating parallel may be found with one of Britain’s most controversial nineteenth-century politicians.
Opinion: the populist politics of Joseph Chamberlain and Donald Trump
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The Historian 130: 1916
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Mission to Kabul by Jules Stewart (Read article)
11 The President’s Column
12 Maintaining Morale: promoting the First World War, 1914-16 by John Beckett (Read article)
17 In the News…
18 British armoured cars on the Eastern Front in the First World War by...
The Historian 130: 1916
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Bringing school into the classroom
Teaching History article
The Secondary Education and Social Change (SESC) research project team at the University of Cambridge collaborated with four secondary school history teachers to produce resource packs for teaching Key Stage 3 pupils about post-war British social history through the history of secondary education.
In this article, Chris Jeppesen explains the...
Bringing school into the classroom
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The Historian 138: Hidden stories of a centenary
The magazine of the Historical Association
Contents
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Britain’s Jews and the First World War - Paula Kitching (Read article)
13 The President’s Column
14 Journeys Home: Indian forces and the First World War – Kiran Sahota and Paula Kitching (Read article)
20 We will remember them: well, most of...
The Historian 138: Hidden stories of a centenary
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Balderstone St Leonard’s CE Primary School: our journey to the Quality Mark Gold Award
Primary History article
Kate Turner provides a fantastic insight into the way in which their school has achieved the Gold Standard Quality Mark. She demonstrates both the overarching themes that underpin the history curriculum in the school but also their sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity, the rich opportunities gained through engaging with...
Balderstone St Leonard’s CE Primary School: our journey to the Quality Mark Gold Award
