David Linsell describes how the Teacher Training Agency's history working group provided history-specific examples for the new ICT initial teacher training National Curriculum. He stresses the group's ‘history first' thinking. The aim was to provide realistic examples of ICT use, through which trainee teachers might develop and ultimately demonstrate their competence in choosing, using and evaluating ICT as a history teaching resource. The article concludes with a set of draft examples from the history exemplification.