Periods
The content of the history curriculum can be arranged both by period and theme. In this section, we have arranged the content by chronological period. These periods are arranged according to the same date ranges given in the National Curriculum for ease of navigation by teachers who may be looking for specific content related to the taught curriculum. While the date ranges given in the National Curriculum are the subject of debate, they form a workable search tool.
Ancient
- Film: Attic Inscriptions
- How history learners can ‘dig school’ under lockdown
- Polychronicon 169: Herodotus
- “They Ought to Know the Achievements of the Ancient Greeks”
- Podcast series & associated scheme of work: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Religion
- Podcast Series: St Peter & Constantine
Early Medieval
- How history learners can ‘dig school’ under lockdown
- Cunning Plan 178: How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?
- Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages
- Exploring and Teaching Medieval History in Schools
- Teaching, learning and sharing medieval history for all
- Cunning Plan 163.2: Developing an A-level course in medieval history
1066-1509
- Film: Henry V: Henry the Conqueror?
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the long-term impact of the Black Death on English towns
- Cunning Plan 178: How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?
- Widening the early modern world to create a more connected KS3 curriculum
- Film: Creating a more positive interpretation of the Middle Ages at Key Stage 3
- How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?
1509-1745
- Unpicking the threads of interpretations
- Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
- Historical and interdisciplinary enquiry into the sinking of the Mary Rose
- Cunning Plan 175: Using the England's Immigrants database
- Planning increasingly complex causal models at Key Stage 3
- Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity
1745-1901
- Film: Attic Inscriptions
- Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom
- Why does anyone do anything? Attempts to improve agentive explanations with Year 12
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... migration and empire
- Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons
- Unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8
1901-present
- Exploring and Teaching Twentieth-Century History
- Teaching 20th-Century History Resources
- Polychronicon 167: The strange career of Richard Nixon
- Inverting the telescope: investigating sources from a different perspective
- Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated
- Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947