As a pre-Plowden primary teacher who queued to get my copy of that report in 1967 and as a contributory author to the Cambridge Primary Review (Alexander,...

Multi-cultural and inter-cultural books for children aged 6+.

Helping children understand the past and how the historical record is put together and communicated is enshrined within the National Curriculum. At the end of...

Editorial note: John Fines produced two case studies of Local History for the Nuffield Primary History Project. One on them is published here for the first...

To develop an understanding of the ways in which different Interpretations of events are formed. For example, pupils studying Northern Ireland as a GCSE...

The mention of 'The Domesday Project' to any teacher who was in the classroom in 1985 usually triggers a very vivid memory of involvement in a national survey...

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Introduction The employment of the visual image is a fascinating and exciting way to enable children to gain a glimpse into the past. It is problematic,...

History is now an extremely popular subject with children, parents and teachers says a new research study - especially when children find out about the Ancient...

Museums are memory boxes. They contain artefacts that tell stories about people in the past. The creation of a class museum is a simple and effective way of...

The draft of the revised Key Stage 3 programme of study for history brings a new prominence to the study of the British Empire. Here one department describes...

A post cold war world: The last decade of the 20th century saw a sea change in the political systems of the Soviet Bloc and a corresponding re-orientation of...

Editorial comment: A History of the World is the most creative, imaginative and...

There are many effective ways of using artefacts and resources for the Victorians, but how many teachers have considered using the rubbish that the Victorians...

Introduction In this short paper you will discover some of the tools for ‘doing' local history. They are based on where I live: you can get similar types...

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In the third year at London Metropolitan University, history B.ED students research and prepare a resource about an aspect of life in C19th Britain for use...

Museums and galleries are becoming increasingly concerned with their relevance to schools and are more obviously emphasising different ways of learning and...

In her article in Primary History No 21, Jayne Woodhouse highlighted that the study of history needn’t be all about national events. Essentially it is a...

Introduction When the Historical Association was approached by Teachers' TV to produce ‘Great Ideas for Teaching History' at Key Stage 2, it was...