Primary History 100
The primary education journal of the Historical Association

Contents
Please note: print copies of Primary History 100 will arrive with members from around 11 June.
05 Editorial (Read article)
06 When your parents were young… watch out Year 2 – here come the 1990s!! – Susie Townsend (Read article)
10 Our drawings, our voice: creating drawings and environmental narratives for developing historical thinking – Maria Vlachaki (Read article)
18 What can pupil voice tell us about perceptions of history? – Rachel Bruce and Salma Begum (Read article)
21 ‘Nothing was easy’: viewing war, empire and racism through the eyes of a local Windrush migrant – Andrew Wrenn (Read article)
28 The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) – Glenn Carter (Read article)
32 The end of the Cold War with a personal perspective – Karin Doull (Read article)
36 The 2024 Primary History survey: what are the implications for what it revealed? – Tim Lomas and Paul Bracey (Read article)
40 A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years – Jerome Freeman (Read article)
42 Writing in Primary History edition 1 and 100: has there been a dramatic shift? – Tim Lomas (Read article)
46 A view from the Editor’s desk 1997–2006: issues 16–43 – Penelope Harnett (Read article)
48 Primary History 100 – Alf Wilkinson (Read article)
50 Artificial intelligence’s ChatGPT program: a powerful tool for teaching seven- to 11-year-olds history – ChatGPT, a Swiss Army knife and sources for teaching about Henry VIII – Jon Nichol and ChatGPT (Read article)
52 History through children’s voices – Ailsa Fidler, Victorina González-Díaz and Elizabeth Parr (Read article)
Centre spread posters: Train travel has come a long way; Timeline: exploring the early 1990s
Regular features: Primary History runs a number of regular features including Ideas for Assemblies, One of My Favourite History Places and Pull-out Posters. You can view all editions of these features here.
Cover image: Some previous covers of Primary History
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