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  • New research sheds light on downfall of Classic Maya civilisation

      3rd August 2018
    The Maya was one of the world’s greatest ancient civilisations, and its apparently sudden decline in the 9th century AD has long been a subject for historical debate.   Now scientists have found evidence which appears to confirm the theory that the large-scale abandonment of Maya city states was precipitated by a massive drought...
    New research sheds light on downfall of Classic Maya civilisation

  • African and Caribbean British History: Georgian Period

      Early Modern British History
    In this podcast Onyeka examines African and Caribbean British History during the Georgian period.
    African and Caribbean British History: Georgian Period

  • Film: The ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII

      Virtual Branch
    Every queen had ladies-in-waiting. Her confidantes and chaperones, they are the forgotten agents of the Tudor court. Experts at survival, negotiating the competing demands of their families and their queen, the ladies-in-waiting of Henry VIII’s wives were far more than decorative ‘extras’: they were serious political players who changed the...
    Film: The ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII

  • Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour

      Finding a new perspective on the Tudors
    During his lifetime, Henry VIII journeyed throughout his kingdom in what are known as royal 'progresses'. In this webinar, Anthony Musson will share research from the AHRC-funded 'Henry on Tour' project which seeks to reassess these progresses by exploring archival sources, archaeology, music and material culture. In addition to contributing...
    Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour

  • Using ancient monuments to help teach about pre-Roman times in Britain

      Primary History article
    It is inconceivable that anyone teaching ancient Britain has not used some of the famous sites such as Stonehenge, Avebury, Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar or Stones of Stenness. They are vital sources of information for this period of history and the teaching usually introduces the element of mystery...
    Using ancient monuments to help teach about pre-Roman times in Britain

  • 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

  • Terriers in India

      Historian Article
    Peter Stanley is working on the largely unexplored history of the thousands of British Territorial soldiers who served in India during the First World War using their letters and diaries. He is trying to discover what happened to these men when they returned to Britain. Did their service in India...
    Terriers in India

  • Designing learning activities to stimulate domain-specific thinking

      Article
    Active Historical Thinking: designing learning activities to stimulate domain-specific thinking. ‘Thinking Skills' have been much discussed in England since, at least, the revision of the National Curriculum in 2000 and have recently morphed, with the 2008 revisions to the curriculum, into ‘Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills'. Often, however, such ‘skills'...
    Designing learning activities to stimulate domain-specific thinking

  • African and Caribbean British History: Stuart Period

      Early Modern British History
    In this podcast Onyeka looks at African and Caribbean British History during the Stuart period.
    African and Caribbean British History: Stuart Period

  • Processes, Chronological Understanding & Planning

      Primary Expert Podcasts
    In this podcast Dr Hilary Cooper, Professor of History and Pedagogy at the University of Cumbria, looks at why teachers and students seem to enjoy primary history and discusses processes of enquiry, chronological understanding and planning a topic. 1. Ofsted Report History for All published in 2011 said that: "history taught in schools...
    Processes, Chronological Understanding & Planning

  • Teaching History 43

      Journal
    Editorial 2 Teaching the Schools Council History Project in Hong Kong, 3 Andy Homden Lancashire Texti :es and the Indian Connection, Mary Searle-Chatterjee 7 Olivares, Ian Bradbury 9 History Across the Spectrum, John Higham 12 Simulation and History - what actually happens in the classroom? 14 Ian Cardall Talking History,...
    Teaching History 43

  • Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

      Teaching History feature
    Big theme: dissent and the formation of the concept of ‘rights' You can teach citizenship not only without compromising National Curriculum content, processes and concepts, but in such a way as to improve them. Review your department's ‘whole Key Stage' planning. Secure rigour and high levels of challenge by remembering...
    Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

  • Out and About in Chelsea’s hidden gardens

      Historian feature
    Chelsea has an unusually large number of veteran mulberry trees for a London borough (around 25 at the last count). And, while they are not all as old as they look, many have direct links to Chelsea’s history, including the Tudor estates of Thomas More and Henry VIII, a short-lived...
    Out and About in Chelsea’s hidden gardens

  • Why go on a pilgrimage? Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning

      Teaching History article
    Jamie Byrom describes the learning activities within a final enquiry for a National Curriculum area of study - Britain 1066-1500. The strong message in this article is that the learning in each enquiry is only as good as the planning and teaching of the enquiries that precede it. Byrom's model...
    Why go on a pilgrimage? Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning

  • Using Nursery Rhymes to develop children's knowledge and understanding of the past

      Primary History article
    Nursery rhymes are good sources of evidence about the past and their potential for developing children's understanding has been discussed in earlier editions of Primary History (Woodhouse: 2005, 2001; Cooper: 2005; Primary History : 2000) They may be used as starting points to provide information about past ways of life...
    Using Nursery Rhymes to develop children's knowledge and understanding of the past

  • Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

      Teaching History feature
    Julian Critchley demonstrates how role play can be used to explain military history.
    Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

  • Learning to engage with documents through role play

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. First let me say that I did not research the materials used or plan this lesson. For this I must acknowledge, with thanks, that this is the work of my colleague, Mike Huggins, and the senior...
    Learning to engage with documents through role play

  • Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Following the publication of the QCA guide ‘Citizenship and PSHE at KS1 & 2’ (QCA:2000) which identified history as being a suitable vehicle for the teaching of the non-statutory citizenship framework in primary schools, and...
    Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

  • Identity shakers: cultural encounters and the development of pupils' multiple identities

      Teaching History article
    History teachers are increasingly used to the idea that helping pupils reflect on and understand identities is one of the central purposes of history education. In this article Jamie B yrom and Michael Riley reflect on what thinking about identity historically might mean; by considering the history of encounters between...
    Identity shakers: cultural encounters and the development of pupils' multiple identities

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... medieval science and medicine?

      Teaching History feature
    The phrase ‘medieval science’ may seem nonsensical. ‘How can... a synonym for “backward”,’ the editors of The Cambridge History of Science Volume 2 ask rhetorically, ‘modify a noun that signifies the best available knowledge from the natural world?’ To answer their question, we must rethink our assumptions, both about the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... medieval science and medicine?

  • Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

      Teaching History article
    However imaginative and enquiring classroom history may be, the history itself is usually constructed by a historian, a textbook author or a teacher. It is rare that pupils gain the opportunity to construct original histories of their own. Oral history can offer this opportunity. Yet as a methodology, oral history...
    Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

  • Move Me On 180: feeling unprepared to start as NQT because of Covid-19

      Teaching History feature
    Una Marson had her training interrupted by school closures in response to Covid-19 and feels unprepared to start as an NQT. Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all...
    Move Me On 180: feeling unprepared to start as NQT because of Covid-19

  • Move Me On 160: getting caught up in interesting digressions and complexity

      Teaching History feature
    Phil Nevers is so interested in the history that he's teaching that he gets caught up in fascinating digressions or overwhelms the students with complexity. Phil Nevers is a passionate historian with high ambitions for the students that he is teaching. He reads widely and is deeply committed to the...
    Move Me On 160: getting caught up in interesting digressions and complexity

  • Podcast: Mad or Bad? Was Henry VI a tyrant?

      Presidential Lecture 2011
    Professor Anne Curry delivered her final Presidential lecture at the Historical Association Annual Conference 2011 in Manchester. Henry VI (1422-61) was England's youngest king, only nine months old when he succeeded his famous father. Traditionally he is seen as incompetent, pious and, latterly, insane, and thereby causing the Wars of...
    Podcast: Mad or Bad? Was Henry VI a tyrant?

  • Changing thinking about cause

      Article
    Aware both that causation is the bread and butter of the historian’s craft, and that trainee teachers find it far harder to teach well than they anticipate, Alex Ford sought to get to the heart of the problem with causation, especially at GCSE. When teaching to a specification and mark...
    Changing thinking about cause