This regular feature in Teaching History (TH) helps school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretations. (It was formerly titled 'Polychronicon', after a 14th-century chronicle that brought together the knowledge of its age). 

Title/topic	Author	TH issue	Year
Youth culture	Marcus Collins	193	2024
The history of Australia	Anna Clark	191	2023
Gender and sexuality	Gabrielle Storey	191	2023
The consequences of the industrial revolution	Emma Griffin	190	2023
Royal Studies	Gabrielle Storey	189	2022
The impact of the English Reformation	Laura Sangha	188	2022
Chinese history	Rana Mitter	187	2022
Histories of education – and society	Peter Mandler	186	2022
Expanding the reach of the American Revolution	Thomas Rodgers	185	2021
The British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South	Sujit Sivasundaram	184	2021
The impact of the British Empire on Britain	Liam Liburd	183	2021
Medieval science and medicine	Seb Falk	182	2021
African history in the precolonial period?	Toby Green	181	2020
The long-term impact of the Black Death on English towns	Claire Kennan	180	2020
Migration and empire	Lauren Working	179	2020
Decolonisation and the British Empire	Edward Webb	178	2020
The New Deal in American History	Tony Badger	177	2019
Peterloo 1819-2019	Robert Poole	176	2019
Paris 1919 – a century on	David Reynolds	175	2019
Votes for Women	Tara Morton	174	2019
From American Indians to Native Americans	Brett J Duffek	173	2018
Health, illness and medicine in the Middle Ages	Catherine Rider	172	2018
Policing and role of Gestapo in Nazi Germany	Claire M. Hubbard-Hall	171	2018
The Becket Dispute	Helen Birkett	170	2018
Herodotus	Edith Hall	169	2017
Interwar Internationalisms: League of Nations	Aaron Watts	168	2017
Richard Nixon	Tony McConnell	167	2017
The 'new' historiography of the Cold War	Aaron Watts	166	2017
1917 Revolutions: 100 Years On	Sarah Badcock	165	2016
End of the Cold War	David Reynolds	164	2016
Britain and Europe Debate	Brendan Simms	163	2016
The May 1968 events in France	Daniel A Gordon	162	2016
John Lilburne	Michael Braddick	161	2015
"The Birth of a Nation" (film)	Jenny Barrett	160	2015
Magna Carta	Justin Champion	159	2015
Napoleon	Malcolm Crook	158	2015
Police-Public Relations in Modern England	David Churchill	157	2014
Transnational History of the First World War	Jay Winter	156	2014
Origins of the First World War	Peter Donaldson	155	2014
Elizabeth I	Jackie Eales	154	2014
Liberation: The End of the Holocaust?	Dan Stone	153	2013
The workhouse	Alannah Tompkins	152	2013
The Revolution of 1688	Ted Vallance	151	2013
The French Revolution	David Andress	150	2013
The Persian Wars	Tom Harrison	149	2012
Wars of the Roses	John Watts	148	2012
The Pendle Witch Trial of 1612	Robert Poole	147	2012
The History of "Big History"	Fred Spier	146	2012
History of the Modern Prison	Alyson Brown	145	2011
1930s Britain	Roger Spalding	144	2011
The Balfour Declaration	James Renton	143	2011
'Instructive Reversals': re-interpreting the 1857 events in Northern India	Arthur Chapman	142	2011
Adolf Eichmann	David Cesarani	141	2010
Why did the Cold War end?	Tony McConnell	140	2010
Civic denouncer: the lives of Pavlik Morozov	Catriona Kelly	139	2010
US Civil Rights Movement	Stephen Tuck	138	2010
The 1960s-70s 'space age'	Robert Poole	137	2009
The Beatles	Marcus Collins	136	2009
Postmodern Holocaust Historiography:  Saul Friedlander's 'The Years of Extermination'	Wulf Kansteiner	135	2009
The Great War and Cultural History	Peter Donaldson	134	2009
Crusader States in the Levant	Jonathan Riley-Smith	133	2008
Roman Emperors	Tony McConnell	132	2008
Leisure Time	Mike Huggins	131	2008
Dental, Transcendental, Regimental: Making Mangal Pandey	Arthur Chapman	130	2008
Peterloo	Robert Poole	129	2007
Death of Captain Cook	Peter Claus	128	2007
The Crusades	Jonathan Riley-Smith	127	2007
Stonehenge	Arthur Chapman	126	2007
Norman Conquest	Tony McConnell	125	2006
Cold War	Tony McConnell	124	2006
Gladstone and Disraeli	Nick Poyntz	123	2006
Gunpowder Plot	Tony McConnell	122	2006
American Revolution	Michelle Henley	121	2005
Interpretations in Popular Music	Tony McConnell	120	2005
World War II and Popular Culture	Nick Poyntz	119	2005
Henry VII	Ian Dawson	118	2005
Douglas Haig	John D Clare	117	2004
The Eternal City: The Roman Past throughout the Ages	Rosie Gill	116	2004
Historians and the Holocaust: Racism, Hatred and the Third Reich	Tony McConnell	115	2004
Oliver Cromwell	Nick Poyntz	114	2004
Interpreting the Interpreters: Slavery in Twentieth-Century America	Tony McConnell	113	2003
The Angevin Empire	Tony McConnell	112	2003